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How can I prevent Windows 7 users from deleting Firefox history?

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SmileyNeil
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I wish to prevent my daughter from deleting her Firefox history so that I can help her to concentrate on doing homework rather than watching videos or playing games, (and then deleting the history when she hears me coming into the room - she's fast!) Our Windows 7 desktop computer has separate user accounts for each family member, (without admin rights) and ideally I would like to be able to check her Firefox history periodically from my own account but I will settle from being able to check it with her when she is logged into her own account. Is it possible to prevent her from deleting it?

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I wish to prevent my daughter from deleting her Firefox history so that I can help her to concentrate on doing homework rather than watching videos or playing games, (and then deleting the history when she hears me coming into the room - she's fast!) Our Windows 7 desktop computer has separate user accounts for each family member, (without admin rights) and ideally I would like to be able to check her Firefox history periodically from my own account but I will settle from being able to check it with her when she is logged into her own account. Is it possible to prevent her from deleting it? Thanks.

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guigs
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Unless you lock many preferences in the profile folder, this can be tough. There are alternative solutions, like setting up a proxy in the operating system and forcing all traffic through the proxy only you can view the history in.

How to lock preferences in the profile:

I the parental controls there are also web filtering features that you can customize: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/10524/how-to-use-parental-controls-in-wind...