How to Check and Delete Usage History on Your Windows PC

How to Check and Delete Usage History on Your Windows PC.

Whenever you use your computer, it keeps tabs of your activity. It keeps track of how long you were using your computer, when, and for what purpose. It may not outwardly display these details, but they can be accessed from the system for anyone whose looking for them. If you have lent out a computer to someone or sent it for repair somewhere you do not trust and are looking to see how the person you sent it to was using it, you can easily access your computer’s usage history to see its recent usage information. You may want to use this to keep tabs on your children or family members’ usage or for other personal reasons as well. Whatever your reason, there is a way to go about this and we are going to break it down step by step in this tutorial.

Windows 10 collects and saves your activity history both on your computer and to the cloud, from browsing history to location information. Luckily, Microsoft makes it easy to see all the data they store and allows you to delete it.

Now that you know that you can access your computer’s usage information, you must know that this means that someone can access your usage information and see how you have been using your device as well. If you would like to remove traces of your usage information so that anyone else that knows how to access this information does not see your usage activity, you can go about removing that too. That is another thing that we will be breaking down further in this tutorial step by step. We will teach you how to keep tabs on device usage and how to be one step ahead in protecting your own privacy when it comes to device usage history on Windows PC devices.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung).