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History often refers to the list of webpages viewed in a browser or commands used in a particular program. History is often used for undo/redo or back/forward functionality in programs of all kinds.

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How do I determine which Windows services were recently disabled?

Does Windows 10 keep a log of when/which services were enabled/disabled? How would a person locate this information? Thanks!
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How to search backwards in zsh/bash BUT relative to directory

Problem: In the terminal, when I press Ctrl+R to do a backward-search using the zsh/bash history, it searches all commands sorted by most recently used. Problem is some commands are completely ...
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View historical record of applications used on a PC

I want to access the exact time at which I turned on/off a program on windows 10. How can I find such records? e.g. "Word.exe is started at 09:10 and terminated at 12:03." I cannot find this in the ...
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Where does Chromium store bookmarks and browsing history in Ubuntu?

I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and Chromium. Where does the latter store bookmarks and history? There are several bookmark folders, but there is no file ~/.config/chromium/ in the system.
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How to delete one link from Chrome adress bar?

I've read on superuser that I need to press FN + Shift + Backspace but it seems not to work anymore. How do I do that ? Thank you
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Bash history editing unwanted

This happens. Typing: $ qwer $ asdf $ zxcv up-arrow twice, backspace, backspace, down-arrow twice, then: $ history 4 519 qwer 520* as 521 zxcv 522 history 4 The star by 520 tells me it'...
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Bash history corrupted after power loss

I went to the store and when I came back, I found that I had forgotten to plug in my laptop and It had died from a low battery. When I rebooted, I was surprised to find that my bash history, instead ...
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How is HTTPS browsing history monitored?

I am researching on how to monitor HTTPS browsing history. I am not a network person, so apologies if I sound ignorant in this issue. I googled the following questions below, but nothing substantial ...
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Deleting cookies and history without user intervention

I am looking for a clickless solution for deleting cookies in Chrome or Firefox. Basically deleting cookies and history without my intervention. For example, every time a selected website gets visited ...
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Delete Google History including searches and browsing activity

Your searches and browsing activity are saved in your Web & App Activity when it's turned on and you're signed in to your Google Account. You're in control of what's saved, and you can delete it ...
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PowerShell ISE open previous files

How can I configure PowerShell ISE so that it will open tabs for each file that was previously opened when I closed it? This is particularly helpful since I typically come back to work on the same ...
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Can the router owner access a user's internet history?

I share the internet bill with my downstairs neighbor, but the router is in his house and legally belongs to him. Can he access my internet history? If so, how can I block him or protect me from him ...
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Strange Browsing History - infected or clicked on a bad link?

Today, I was somehow redirected to a porn site and upon closer inspection of my browsing history, I see four URLs which I did not intentionally visit but may have been a redirect from one to the other ...
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Is it possible to retrieve history after deleted from Google Chrome?

Is there any way to get back or retrieve history in Google Chrome after the history is cleared ?
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How to unify History from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox

I'm using Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Each for different things. Is it possible to somehow "unify" browsing history from bouth of these browsers so that sites I have visited while on ...
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Google Chrome history

There's a bug, I think, in the way Chrome manages its history. When I clear the history with CCleaner, I can open Chrome and see that History is blank. However, as soon as I start browsing the web a ...
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See who logged in to their Facebook account on my computer

Somebody has been on Facebook on my computer, and I would really like to find out who that person is. I see in my history that they logged me out my Facebook account, and logged again, presumably on ...
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Prevent browser history scan

I don't know the exact term for this but there is a way for websites to know where you've been surfing by using hidden links in the page to many other pages and checking if your browser marks them as "...
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mapping cntrl+p , cntrl +n in command prompt

I m looking for a way to map CNTRL+p and CNTRL+n in command prompt to previous and next command in history. I m aware of F3 and up/down key but I m habituated to CNTRL+p/n on linux.
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How to turn off Chromium Xmarks history sync?

In Chromium I get "Changes to sync" notification with Xmarks as soon as I open a new website. I believe it wants to sync my history, and I would like to turn that off since I want only my bookmarks ...
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Still logged in after deleting browsing history in IE9

When I try deleting browsing history from internet options in IE9, I am still logged in. For example, I'm still logged into my Super User account. I also tried "disk cleanup" and there is no gain. ...
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Bash exeute command from history and pull next/previous command into command line

I'm sure I read it somewhere, but I cannot find the site any more. Basically I want to search the history "^r" and then execute a command and leave me at the next/previous position in the history. ...
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In GNU Screen, Recalled bash history command displays one character position to the left of actual location

I am running Red Hat 5 32-bit (2.6.18-194.26.1.el5). The issue is that when I recall any previous command in bash's history, the first character in the command is displayed immediately after the ...
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How do I manage my Skype chat and call history?

Is there a way to selectively remove some of the historic messages and calls? I'm looking to keep the history of my business calls and chat messages, but clear the private ones.
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What computer history museums need hardware donations?

I have a "TAM" (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh), that I would like to donate to a museum. (As far as I know, this is the first all-in-one flatscreen desktop...) The Computer History Museum already ...
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history file grows indefinitely

I believe I get the same problem as this guy. I'm on AIX, with tcsh 6.12.00 After (probably) a bad logout, the history file exponentially grown, until the quota stopped it (and when the quota was hit,...
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Chrome offers "Typed history" from another browser in address bar

Google Chrome shows "Typed History" in its address bar as if it was written in Chrome itself, however, the information is stolen from another browser (Vivaldi). Example: I write "hello ...
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in bash moved backwards to some previous line, how to get hist line number?

When I have bash history like 101 eoho 1 102 echo 2 103 echo 3 then history 1 shows 103 echo 3 Now with hitting twice the up-arrow, I have after the prompt the comnand line echo 1 without the ...
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How to increase Alt + Left (go to previous page in Chrome browsing history) from the upper limit of 50?

In Chrome, you can go to a previous page in your browsing history using Alt+Left. It seems that the upper limit on the number of pages Chrome remembers is 50. (Windows 11, desktop PC) I would need to ...
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How do I delete these types of recent searches in Google Chrome?

I really tried googling things such as "how to delete recent searches on google chrome" but I can't find any results. I have a very low vocabulary. So how do I delete these? Here is a ...
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Make Chrome suggest ALL history results and NO web suggestions in omnibox

For various reasons, I like to completely disable omnibox suggestions from the web. However, I would like to get ALL matching results from my own browser history as suggestions (a behaviour that was ...
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How can I make the VLC History log store more than the last ten?

By default VLC player only shows the last ten videos under "Media > Open Recent Media" But what if I'd like to be able to see what I've selected (and choose one of them) from as far back ...
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Firefox Sync's history limit

I just performed a clean install of my Linux distribution's upgraded version. I signed in to Firefox account and started sync. While browsing my library, I found history items from my old Firefox ...
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Is there a way to save and restore web browser tabs INCLUDING THEIR HISTORY (and other possible tab data) to a text file?

Upgrading from Linux Mint 18 came with loosing all my navigator tabs. Luckily I had a backup of my old distribution. However, I'm now stuck with it and more and more things stop working. I know there ...
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Why does `history -s` wipe my command history?

I am working on a project where the STG and LIVE environments have multiple instances, including a central 'gfs' server where you can do database admin You access all of the instances via a 'bastion' ...
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How to prevent manual deletion of individual items from Chrome Browsing History?

I am monitoring my ward's usage of Internet on my device. I would like it to be all transparent that is saved in history and such that it can't be deleted by my ward. Avoiding access entirely to the ...
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Does WMP store the files or its history in a hidden location?

Does WMP have a hidden storage for recently/history file that I can access? I'm asking because my mother and I watched footage from a SD Card on WMP of someone stealing from our home and damaging some ...
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Internet Explorer download history

SANS's Windows Forensic Analysis poster saysI can find the IE 8 download history along the path: *%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\IEDownloadHistory* But folder IEDownloadHistory simply ...
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Powershell persistent history in the ISE

(EDIT 2: now including the output of Get-Module) In a Powershell prompt I have persistent history across sessions (see this related question). But when I launch the Powershell ISE, I do not have ...
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How to disable history in Chrome?

I've googled this and read other similar questions, all sources say that it's needed to disable Web & App activity in google account settings. I did it, but when i visit any page after this and ...
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Does Firefox sync browsing history?

In the preferences in Firefox there is an option to sync the browsing history (and bookmarks, addons, prefs and so on) but how does it work? I have three devices that are setup to sync and bookmarks ...
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How do I send my command history to two different history files?

Is there any way to have my commands sent to a secondary history file besides the default history location? I know that setting HISTFILE will send my commands to a custom locations, but I still want ...
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How to record entire browsing history in Firefox? [closed]

How does one record and view the entire browsing history in Firefox? I'm thinking of some sort of table containing an entry every time I load page, including basics like page title, visit timestamp, ...
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Sync browsing history and bookmarks with Firefox and Brave

I just recently switched from Firefox to Brave. I managed to import all my bookmarks to Brave but still couldn't find a way to import all the histories. Also, brave sync is still in beta. So, I am ...
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Wrap the history number - reset history number without losing history

I display the history number as part of my prompt, e.g., {!1123}(j:~)$ ls /some/long/and/hard/to/type/path so that I can do it later with !1123. My HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE are both 200, but this ...
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Windows 10 File Version History, real-time backup/copy-on-write

I understand that Windows 10 File Version History feature does incremental backups at fixed schedule (every 10mins to 24hrs). And that it checks the NTFS 'Change Journals' However, is it possible to ...
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Why "svn log -g" for including merged revisions in log output takes forever?

For viewing all commits in svn log including those commits which are part of the merged branches -g option must be used. But executing svn log -g on the SVN repository which I'm working with seems to ...
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How to record the browsing history in Chrome indefinitely? [duplicate]

I first thought it was a bug that my browsing history in Chrome was getting lost but there seems to be a hard limit of 90 days for it: “Your History page shows the websites you've visited on Chrome in ...
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How to understand which history belongs to which device

I have one gmail account. This account is used by my mobile Android, my home desktop PC and my laptop PC. Only home desktop has history sync. Others don't have. So when I open history on mobile and ...
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Prevent command already saved in Bash history from being added to history on macOS

I'd like to prevent commands that are already present in .bash_history on macOS from being added again if reentered in Terminal (usually by typing the first few characters and scanning back in history)...
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