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How to really delete your Microsoft Edge browser history on Windows 10

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Published onNovember 2, 2018

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If you’re looking to delete your browsing history inMicrosoft Edge, there’s a way to get rid of everything: passwords, form information, and all the websites you have ever visited. Most of this information is stored on yourWindows 10 PConly. However, if you useCortana, some of your personal information is stored in theMicrosoftcloud.

Microsoft provides a detailed listof what types of info you can delete in Edge, including what gets deleted, and where it’s stored. When you delete your Microsoft Edge browser history, all of the following items get deleted from yourWindows 10PC, with the exception of your browsing history, which you will also need to delete from the Microsoft cloud.

Here’s the solution you need to delete all your browsing history in Microsoft Edge. Please note: you need to have an Edge browser window open to use the keyboard shortcuts.

  1. Go to the menu in Microsoft Edge (Alt + X)

  2. Go to History (CTRL + H)3. Go toClear history.

  3. Select all of the items you want to delete from your history. You can also select an option that will delete your browser history in Edge automatically every time you close your browser. SelectClearto clear all the selected items from your browser history in Edge.

  4. Now that your browser history is deleted from your Windows 10 PC, you have to delete your history from the Microsoft cloud. If you use Cortana and want to clear browsing history that’s stored in the cloud, selectChange what Microsoft Edge knows about me in the cloud.

From there, you will be taken to the Microsoft privacy dashboard. The privacy dashboard allows you to control your information and how it is used by Microsoft for all types of activities, including browser history, apps and services, voice, search, media, locations, and much more. There is quite a large amount of data that you can control and delete.

For this example, we just need to delete our Edge browser history. This is what you need to do.

  1. Go to browsing history and selectView and Clear Browsing History.

  2. SelectClear activityto delete your browsing history from the cloud.

  3. Microsoft will provide a prompt to notify you of the following:

If you are sure you want to clear your browsing history, selectClear.

  1. That’s it, you’re done. If you want to check if your browsing history is indeed gone, you can go back into your browsing history on the Microsoft privacy dashboard and you should see a screen like this:

As mentioned before, the Microsoft privacy dashboard is a place where the Redmond tries to be as transparent as possible with what they do with your data. You can delete more data from other Microsoft services, includingCortana,Xbox,Office 365,Skype, and evenLinkedIn.  You can also change other privacy settings, download your data, or change your advertisement settings.Take a look for yourself here

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