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reader, anonymous, writes (6 May 2009): If it's internet history you mean, you are able to get it back (but there are exceptions.) If you go into Internet Options and then Temporary Internet Files, there will be sites scrambled in there with thousands upon thousands of files.............all that is available if of course , you haven't deleted the cookies.
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reader, The Gentle Man  +, writes (6 May 2009):
 Im not 100% if you can get them back or not. As Love4Life said the information is pushed aside until written over, which may have happened more than once.
If its in regards as to what someone has been looking at, try sifting through the cookies.
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reader, hannah76 +, writes (6 May 2009):
 hello,
I think you can because I've seen the police on the news take people's computers for investigations. I think the harddrive would have a memory of every movement ever on the life of the PC. The problem is finding someone that is able to unlock it and that may cost a lot of money. Start with contacting one of those What PC? or Which PC? consumer bodies.
Take care. Hannah
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reader, GrimmReality  +, writes (6 May 2009):
 There are Data recovery services advertised on the web that may be able to get it off the hard drive. Even though it is browser history, there should still be a fingerprint on the drive. we all know that things never really "leave: our computers with the right know-how.
I would search the web to price them...services I think can get pretty pricey, so if you know someone good in your area, you may be able to get some local help.
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reader, Love4Life +, writes (6 May 2009):
 The way a hard drive works is when its deleted the computer pushes that information aside and will eventually copy over it. Your computer doesn't acknowledge it's existence but it's still their if it hasn't already been written over. The only thing you could do is pull the hard drive and take it to a professional and hope its still their but it cost and theirs always the chance they won't find it if the computer has rewritten over it.
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reader, kellyxxx +, writes (6 May 2009):
 I don't think that you can do that. X
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reader, btflower +, writes (6 May 2009):
 look in your recycling bin. if you haven't emptied it then web files should be in there
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