Permanently disable inprivate browsing in IE11

[Charlie98]

I've tried a few regedit DWORDs and I haven't been able to disable it completely... anyone?

Also... is there a way to disable deleting the browsing history?

 

[Ancalagon44]

Worried your spouse is cheating on you?

 

[pcgeek11]

Disable Inprivate browsing:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disable-private-browsing-internet-explorer-chrome-firefox

Disable History Cookie Deletion:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd349812.aspx

If you don’t want users to be able to delete their browsing history, form data, or passwords, you can enable the following group policy settings located in both Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\ and User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\:

Turn off “Delete Browsing History” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Forms” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Passwords” Functionality

 

[Charlie98]

Worried your spouse is cheating on you?

No, I'm quite positive my wife isn't cheating on me, thank you, Dr Ruth.

Disable Inprivate browsing:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/disabl...chrome-firefox

Disable History Cookie Deletion:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../dd349812.aspx

If you don’t want users to be able to delete their browsing history, form data, or passwords, you can enable the following group policy settings located in both Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\ and User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\:

Turn off “Delete Browsing History” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Forms” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Passwords” Functionality

I actually tried the regedit mentioned in the first link... didn't work for some reason, and, for the life of me... I cannot find either Computer Config or User Config. I've gone everywhere I know to go and I can't get there.

EDIT: I don't think GP editor is available in Windows 7 Home.

 

[bruceb]

GPedit is not in the Home version of XP / 7/ 8 / 10 .. only in the Pro versions
But you can add it ... see link for details

https://www.itechtics.com/enable-gpedit-windows-10-home/

 

[corkyg]

Did you check (in IE11) Tools/Internet Options/browsing History? There is a checkbox for deleting browsing history on exit.

 

[Charlie98]

Did you check (in IE11) Tools/Internet Options/browsing History? There is a checkbox for deleting browsing history on exit.

That's just it, I don't want the user to be able to delete browsing history AT ALL.

 

[bruceb]

Charlie, you can add GPEDIT.MSC as I mentioned above. I tried it on Win 10 Home and it does work. After you have it, you can try what PCGEEK11 suggested

 

[Charlie98]

Charlie, you can add GPEDIT.MSC as I mentioned above. I tried it on Win 10 Home and it does work. After you have it, you can try what PCGEEK11 suggested

I did successfully install it (thank you!) I'm still having a problem navigating to where I can shut down those services... I'm not sure what to enable, nothing specifically says:

Turn off “Delete Browsing History” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Forms” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Passwords” Functionality

I have the ability to turn off certain menus and tabs... but not the Tools tab, nor have I seen Browsing History.

 

[bruceb]

From post by pcgeek11

If you don’t want users to be able to delete their browsing history, form data, or passwords, you can enable the following group policy settings located in both Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\ and User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\:

Turn off “Delete Browsing History” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Forms” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Passwords” Functionality

 

[Dahak]

Whats confusing is there is two locations where you need to make changes.
So when you open up GPEDIT on the left go to

Computer Configuration                   User Configuration                      
 -> Administrative Templates            -> Administrative Templates
    -> Windows Components                -> Windows Components 
       -> Internet Explorer                 -> Internet Explorer
          -> Delete Browsing History           -> Delete Browsing History

Find the setting you want and double click on it and change it to enable.
May need to read what the setting says as sometimes it many need to be disabled.

So as an example to disable the Delete History Button you would have to double click on Prevent Access to Delete Browsing History and set it to enable.

 

[sm625]

It's not private anyway. Even when you browse privately, it still stores the sites you visited. There is a thread about this somewhere.

 

[Charlie98]

From post by pcgeek11

If you don’t want users to be able to delete their browsing history, form data, or passwords, you can enable the following group policy settings located in both Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\ and User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\:

Turn off “Delete Browsing History” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Forms” Functionality
Turn off “Delete Passwords” Functionality

..and, as I said... I can't get there. Here is a screen shot of what I have. I've been through every drilldown menu and I can't find anything on browser history....



EDIT: I did find where you are supposed to be able to disable the General Tab in both Computer and User... but at the end of the day, it had no effect on the function, even after a restart.

 

[bruceb]

I do not know why those keys do not show. They also do not show on my laptop. Maybe it needs to be rebooted first or perhaps it will show up after Internet Explorer is next run.

You can also download a little reg key fix to stop them from deleting files from here:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...e-browsing-history-enable-disable-access.html

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel]
"DisableDeleteBrowsingHistory"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel]
"DisableDeleteBrowsingHistory"=dword:00000001

Note: Just found that you can add items that are not in GPEDIT ... see link below for details

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/56443-microsoft-mangement-console-create-custom-msc.html

 

[TheRyuu]

I've tried a few regedit DWORDs and I haven't been able to disable it completely... anyone?

Also... is there a way to disable deleting the browsing history?

Well you could just disable IE altogether and only have something like Chrome installed which I know for a fact you can disable incognito on through the registry (IIRC).

It's not private anyway. Even when you browse privately, it still stores the sites you visited. There is a thread about this somewhere.

This was for Edge and was fixed in the following month's cumulative update[1] so it no longer saves the history in Private Browsing mode.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/update-history-windows-10 (see Feb. 9 2016)

Fixed issue with Microsoft Edge browser caching visited URLs while using InPrivate browsing.