Applications history
The first type of application history is called Common file dialog history. Almost every application
has some sort of open/save features and most of the applications use the Windows-provided dialogs for
these operations. This ensures that open/save dialogs of most programs are very similar to each other. However
here comes the bad news - Windows records the names of the files that you open or save. Even if these names
do not show in the file open/save dialog of particular application, they are still recorded and can be viewed from
someone who knows where to look for them.
Now, let's take a look at the Media Player history items. First, there is a list of most recently
opened files in the File menu of Media Player. Second, each played file is remembered in the default playlist. For
example you can see all recently played vide files in "All Video Clips" item in the Playlist drop-down list.
Google Toolbar, Google Deskbar, Yahoo toolbar and
ICQ toobar all have a special type of search history that
records the words that you have searched for. These words are shown when you type the first letter of the
word(s) to be searched (see the picture below).
Google Desktop does not show the history for searched words but it records in its database information
for all visited pages from Internet Explorer history. Even if you manage to delete the Internet Explorer history,
the visited pages are still shown from Google Desktop when a search is made.
Currently only Mil Shield is capable to delete selectively the web history records from the Google Desktop
and thus to allow safe usage of the convenient Google Desktop features. Note that during the cleanup,
Mil Shield temporarily closes the Google Desktop engine and then starts it again.
There are many other application history tracks that can be deleted by Mil Shield (note that
the cleaning of the following types of history is not turned on by default in Mil Shield because
some users prefer not to clean them; if you want to clean some (or all) of these tracks, just
see the Mil Shield for instructions how to do this):
- Microsoft Office 2010, 2007, 2003, 2000 and 97. Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and Access all have history of most recently opened files in their File menus.
- Irfan Viewer. Irfan Viewer has a history of most recently used files and folders.
Other traces include the current slideshow list and default slideshow directory.
- ACDSee. ACDSee has a history of most recently used files and folders.
Other traces are in the image database.
- WinZip. WinZip has a history of most recently used files and folders.
- WinRAR. WinRAR has a history of most recently used files and folders.
- GetRight. GetRight has a history of most recent download URLs,
save locations and download history. Note that Mil Shield also cleans the records for
unfinished downloads because they are privacy threat too.
- FlashGet. FlashGet has a history of most recent download URLs.
Note that Mil Shield also cleans the records for
unfinished downloads because they are privacy threat too.
- Download Accelerator Plus (DAP). DAP has a history of most recent download URLs,
save locations and download history. Note that Mil Shield also cleans the records for
unfinished downloads because they are privacy threat too.
- MyWaySearch PopSwatter. MyWaySearch PopSwatter has a search history
that is very similar to the Google Toolbar search history.
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