Prevent Users From Deleting Cookies & Browser History in Internet Explorer

I have seen this in many offices, where browsing is not allowed. But still people use it and then deletes the history. Even if you want to keep track of your employee it was not possible. So here is the solution for that.

Follow the steps mentioned below.

Step 1. To edit the group policy editor settings, click on Start button. Type gpedit.msc in the search box and press enter.

Step 2. In Local Group policy editor go to Computer Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Windows Components-> Internet Explorer-> Delete browsing history.

Step 3. On right you will find many options. You can find options for prevent deleting cookies, history, private filtering data, temporary internet files, favorite site data, form data etc.

Step 4. Right click on the first option, i.e. “Prevent deleting cookies”. Select “edit” from the right click menu.



Step 5. Select the “Enable” option and click OK.

Step 6. Similarly right click on second option “Prevent deleting websites that the user has visited” and enable it.

Step 7. To see the steps in action, open the internet explorer and perform the following task.

• Go to Tools->Internet Options.
• In the Internet Options dialog box go to General tab. Under browsing history click Delete button.
• In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, you can’t select checkbox next to Cookies.

In this way you can control the history settings.

Cheers!!