Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of tek07
tek07

asked on

Windows registry and activty tracking methods ?

I was wondering besides a key logger, is there any other methods that people can trace activities on your computer? Does the registry store waht websites and things you've been doing?
Avatar of Zentoo
Zentoo

The registry can not store your website but in your browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox, they store the history of what website you browse. You can go to Options and Clear the history as well as the cache, temp files so one can trace back what website u visited
Avatar of tek07

ASKER

any other inputs before I close this topic?
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of samb39
samb39

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
Most of the clutter can be cleaned up some freeware stuff, the clutter means;

1. Browse history, cookies, temp files.
2. File open history in most of the applications (Like Word, Excel etc).
3. Other clutter which doesn't have a reference with a program anywhere.
4. Prefetch files.
5. Browser index files

and it goes on and on and on.

I use 3 products (Free) which pretty much keeps my PC clean and neat and erases all information.

1. CCleanup (www.ccleanup.com)

2. Cleanup by Steven Gould (Just google it and you'll get the link)

3. Microsoft AntiSpyware cleanup function.

Cheers,
Rajesh