The ‘System Tools’ option will give way to various options. One of them is the ‘System Restore’.
If you remember a few keywords of what you want to search for in the Internet history, you can type it there in the search box and get it recovered.
A desktop search will also not be of much help in such cases. The log files are where all the operations that you perform in your system are stored. A look into the log files can also let you recover deleted Internet history. All Windows computers have this file extension that stores arbitrary data, the . DAT extension. In our scenario, the system uses a file called ‘index. dat’, that stores all the information of the operations you have performed.
Remove the check in its box. Apply changes and exit the window.
You should now have multiple index. dat files in the search results. To read a . dat file, we need to know the software that created the file. Sometimes, . jpg, . avi, . doc, etc. file extensions get renamed to . dat. In our case, we need to get the software that programmers used to create the index. dat files to read them. Try using Notepad through the Open With option, but more than half the information displayed will be garbage that you won’t understand.
Whenever we browse the Internet, certain cookies get downloaded and stored into our systems, without our knowledge. A look into these cookies can give you a fair idea of the web pages you have viewed. Find the option for recovering deleted cookies under one of the tabs in the ‘Internet Options’ dialog box of your browser.
Install professional recovery software, which may cost a bit, but stands a better chance of recovering any lost data. Opt for professional data recovery services. Not only does this option cost a lot, it also means that you will have to send your hard disk to them.
