Open Edge
Press the 2 keys Ctrl + H

 

Yes, I know how to access my History log, but when I go to view recently closed windows, there is only 3 there from today. I have also been searching through all my history and there I can see all the websites I have visted for months on end, but I am not able to locate any thing that says "Recently Closed Windows" So that's why I also asked is there a certain time frame that "Recently Closed Windows" are accessible or should when looking through the history page of all the sites I've vised should I see Recently closed windows/tabs as an option or do I have to just open individual pages.

By simply saying "Press 2 keys Ctrl + H" either means you didn't actually read what I wrote or you missunderstood what I am trying to accomplish.

 

Yes I read what you said
Recently closed will only keep a limited number

or do I have to just open individual pages.

Thats about the only option I know.
Others might have a better option
@plodr @flavallee

 

A couple weeks ago, I tried to find out more about how Edge manages history - and sadly, stopped after getting more confused than when I started. I could find no definitive "current" explanation on Microsoft, which is sad. For example, this page talks about managing Edge History. But when I follow the instructions, there is no "Manage history" option.

Outside of MS, I found all sorts of conflicting information, including retention numbers from 999 days, to 90, to 20 days. 😕

As to why you only see 3 days - no clue. If you have CCleaner or another clutter cleaner installed, you might see if they are set to automatically purge your system.

 

Unless you are restoring the last session from a crash, when you close your browser normally, that information is gone.

Bringing up recently closed tabs is by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+T in all common browsers. This happened to me when I closed Chrome out completely and then I had to go back in but the CTRL+SHIFT+T didn't work because it was a new instance of Chrome... had I had one chrome screen up I could have retrieved the tabs. The History section would be your next option to find the sites you went to.

 

Unless you are restoring the last session from a crash, when you close your browser normally, that information is gone.

Ummm, no - not by default - assuming I understand what you are saying.

I just opened a new Edge session, entered Ctrl+Shift+T and sure enough a bunch of tabs opened too.

If talking about the History feature, in Edge, if you click on "Settings and more" (the 3 dots in the upper right) and then click History, under the All tab, you should see a near endless list of pages you visited over the last several months! If you click the Recently closed, you will see a much shorter list going back a couple days - at least that is what I see here on 2 W10 and 1 W11 system running Edge.

 

Well it seems the more I learn about computers the more I realize there is yet to learn.

That said, maybe I still am not clear what you mean. I just opened Chrome, right clicked on the address bar and clicked Reopened closed window, and it opened with all the tabs too. Checked History and it was fully populated as well.

If anything, I am finding History entries to be too persistent. It should be much easier to delete all traces of where the user has been from our computer, ISPs, Google, and everywhere else - with 1-click. I know - I'm dreaming.

 

To all of you I really appreciate the feedback and let me see if I can answer everyone at the same time

I do not have any cleaning programs such as CCleaner or anything, so all my history is still there from I don't know how far back.

Also yes you are correct in the fact that if I click on the "3 Dots" and go to history or even "Ctrl + H" and then on the window click on the "3 Dots" again and then click on "Open History Page" I will see a list of "Individual" websites/tabs that were open. I do know that I can click on each one individually and see if it's the page that I wanted. But i'm specifically trying to find out or locate that normally if a browser crashes which im case it did and you go to history and you do see "Recently Closed Windows/Tabs" it will open that window of lets say 40 tabs you had opened.

So thats what i'm really looking for is instead of clicking on each link individually in the history page i'm trying to find that one thing that says "Recently Closed Windows/Tabs" so that I can restore the 4 individual windows with X+ tabs that were open on each window

I don't know if "Recently" means only that day or as long as you don't clear your history will that restore ability always be there or is it after "X" amount of days you loose the ability to "Restore Recently Closed Windows" and only can go through one by one with the individual links/tabs that may have been open?

 

But i'm specifically trying to find out or locate that normally if a browser crashes which im case it did and you go to history and you do see "Recently Closed Windows/Tabs" it will open that window of lets say 40 tabs you had opened.

I think the answer to that is, "it depends."

It is like why doesn't Windows always put an error code in Event logs? Because some times, it crashes so suddenly, it doesn't have time to sense a problem, determine the event, then write it to the log - it just crashes, hard.

So it may be something similar with History. It depends on how and why it crashed. At least that's my guess and I'm sticking to it!