Clearing History Items from the Environment using C#

In this blog we are going to clear the history items from the path.

Path of History:

C:\Users\laja\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History

Clearing History:

/// <summary>

/// Clears all the histories in the specific path.

/// </summary>

public void ClearHistory()

{

//Gets the Special Folder

Environment.SpecialFolder specialFolder = Environment.SpecialFolder.History;

//Gets the path of the special folder.

string path = Environment.GetFolderPath(specialFolder);

//Delete all the files from the histories.

DeleteAllFiles(new DirectoryInfo(path));

//Path of History cache

Response.Write("<b>" + "HistoryPath" + " :</b> " + path + "<br/>");

}

Deleting History:

//Delete all the files from the path.

void DeleteAllFiles(DirectoryInfo diPath)

{

//Gets the files from the specific directory

foreach (FileInfo fiCurrFile in diPath.GetFiles())

{

fiCurrFile.Delete();

}

//Getting Sub directories

foreach (DirectoryInfo diSubFolder in diPath.GetDirectories())

{

DeleteAllFiles(diSubFolder); // Call recursively for all subfolders

}

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