But if you wish, you can prevent users from deleting Browsing History, Cookies, etc, in Internet Explorer. For this, your version of Windows needs to have the built-in Group Policy Editor.

Prevent Users from deleting Browsing History

In Windows 8.1, from the WinX Menu, open the Run box, type gpedit.msc and hit Enter to open the Local Group Policy Editor. Now navigate to the following setting: In the left pane you will see Delete Browsing History folder. Double-click on it to expand it.

Now in the same right-pane, double click on Prevent access to Delete Browsing History to open its settings box.

Select Enabled and click Apply / OK. As you can see there are several other settings available here: This setting will apply to all the Standard users. If you want to do it on a user-basis, you will have to follow the same procedure in: If you don’t want your system users to be able to delete their browsing history, form data, or passwords, this post will be able to help you.