If you must, teach him to clear the cache. Otherwise it’s a noneya situation. (None of your damn business)
And you don’t even want to know about the kinds of porn I found out in the garage as a youngster.
I just drop it into a conversation gently (was sent a dodgy link by a friend yesterday, had to delete it from my browser history so no-one could see it).
For all you know they look at it together before stumbling towards the sitting room couch.
Another vote for it’s none of your business.
I think we need a list of the sites to figure out if it was dad or mom or mom & dad.
with broken links of course.
oops
So?
My mum regularly reminds dad to clear out his browser history before my daughter goes to visit.
Apart from that, the only thing mum wants is a chance to watch the best sites with him 
I’m a grandma, 49 years old, and the birth of my grandson had absolutely no effect on my sex life…
Seriously, I know it’s hard to deal with thinking of your parents as separate people with lives of their own, but just think of how your kids view you. They probably don’t think you have sex either.
The hard part is knowing if your dad thinks it’s private and how he would feel if someone else went on his computer and saw the links. Maybe no one else uses the computer and he doesn’t care. But if you think he does, you can easily add to your lesson about setting up the accounts and tell him how to do some system maintenance that will ultimately help him if he doesn’t know how to do it - clear his cache, history and temp folders, run a scan, run a defrag, and maybe mention what kind of websites are most likely to bring viruses.
Just to derail your minds a little more, my parents died a few years apart when I was in my 20’s. I would have been very happy if it was only porn I found in the box in the closet.
Is this the equivalent of a bookshelf in the living room? I mean, who ordinarily goes through the browsing history on someone else’s computer?
I was responding to someone who implied Grandma couldn’t possibly find it because she wouldn’t be checking his browsing history.
I was just pointing out given the information we have about the levels of computer sophistication of the principals in this story it is possible she might find it even if she weren’t intending to check up on him.
Whether the OP needs to concern himself with this possibility is an entirely different question.
I realize you accidentally stumbled on it, so I’m not accusing, but it’s like reading his mail…not cool, NYDB. It’s not your computer, so you don’t have the right to delete anything. With separate accts for the kids, there’s no danger of them stumbling on them. Don’t say anything; don’t do anything.
Your parents’ sex life is absolutely none of your business. It is not about your mother and father; it is about a husband and wife.
You should also reconsider your antiquated prejudice that 70 year olds are not suppose to have any sexual feelings or act on them. Balderdash.
Read the OP again. It was in the little drop down arrow at the right of the address bar in IE. Which also means with auto-complete on, the browser will probably helpfully give you a list of sites as you start to type the one you’re looking for - if the kids start to type
www.nic (kelodeon.com)
it could give handy suggestions like
www.nic easses.com
(urls broken on purpose, since I can’t figure out how to stop vB from making things that look like urls linkable.)
I think a lot of people are misinterpreting his SCSimmons’ intentions here. He isn’t trying to get involved in his parents’ sex life. It sounds to me like he’s worried that someone else might see the history b/c his father has no idea a history even exists.
I know my 86-year-old grandmother often has her friends sit next to her at the PC while she digs up a recipe or email for them to read. It would suck if SCSimmons’ Dad did this, and hotasses .com popped up when he typed the “h” for hotmail.
Yes, that’s exactly right … What I ended up doing was show my parents how to create users in Vista. They each have their own Windows logins now, and have set up separate non-administrator accounts for me and for my sons, and can presumably do the same for other friends or family members who visit. (Or enable the ‘guest’ account, which I also showed them how to do.) I also showed them how to change their passwords. That should give them enough to go on with.
This worked well for me, because I didn’t have to explain much in terms of reasons. It was partially a solution to the original issue that got me involved with their PC in the first place (my son trying to download game programs), and partially a general computer security issues; I didn’t have to bring up browser histories at all.
Thanks, all!