Let’s Hope History Isn’t Repeated

Back in the day, I worked for a computer repair store for a while. I get sent out to fix an old lady’s slow internet issue. Despite not knowing the correct terminology for a lot of things, she is quite adept at navigating the menus on Internet Explorer.

Me: “Hmm, the browser is taking up a lot of the available memory. When did you last delete your history?”

Customer: “I don’t want to do that.”

I check and she has her ‘Save History’ set to 999 days.

Me: “Did you set it that high?”

Customer: “Yes, it’s so the Internet always knows where I want to go and it finishes typing websites for me in the bar thing.”

She had never heard of ‘Favorites’. I explained them to her and then deleted three years of history, surprisingly, without Windows crashing.