Some information about a person’s IM and email recent history is available in TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES. You can use a scripting language to search these files. Any scripting language will do. I use biterscripting – it’s just simple to search files using it.

1. First, you need to find out where your temporary internet files are. Typically this is available in the tools menu of your web browser. On my Internet Explorer, I can find it from Tools->Internet Options->Browsing History->Settings->Current Location. On my computer, my temporary internet files are in “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\”. Write this exact location/path down – no misspellings.

If there is a forward or backward slash at the end of this location, write it down without the ending forward or backward slash. On my computer, I wrote down “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files” . Notice that I wrote down this location without the ending backward slash. (This part is important.)

2. Start biterscripting . (If you don’t have it already, download it free from http://www.biterscripting.com or any other download site. Just google it up.)

3. Copy and paste the following command on biterscripting command line – all on one line – exactly as shown – no misspellings.

scr SS_FindStr.txt dir(“C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”) files(“*”) str(“last night”) > “C:/x.txt” ; system start “C:/x.txt”

Note that although I am using “C:\Users\XYZ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files”, you should be using whatever you wrote down in step 1.

Also, although I am using “last night” as the search string, you should use an appropriate search string for your search. Some of the other search terms I suggest are -

“last bight”
“when you”
“talk later”
“watching”
“is away”
“miss you”

It will take some time for the above commmand to complete and come back (about 1 hour for me), but once done, it will open a text file for you. It will list various files and search strings it found in temporary internet files. You will find all kinds of interesting information in there. Using Edit->Find or CTRL-F, try to locate your search string ( last night – in my example ).

Your ability to find things this way is limited only by these factors.

1. How much of a search you can legally do on your partner.
1. How much information is on your computer.
2. How well you follow these instructions.

Good luck.