Browser History is Most Obvious Place to Look for Porn History
Looking at your browser history is so obvious and well-known, I almost did not mention it. It is also usually cleared out often, along with cookies form porn sites, but it is worth checking out, just in case.
Simply searching your computer for images can reveal hidden pornography
The first step that produces the easiest results is to simply search your computer for pornographic images and movies. A spouse downloading and saving porn will likely hide the content deep in a folder of the computer that is not likely to be found. You can still find the content with a simple windows search.
In Windows XP, go to your Start button, and click Search:
On the left side where the dog asks you what you want to search for, click “Pictures, music, or video”:
Select the two checkboxes “Pictures and Photos” and “Video”:
Click "Use advanced search options", leave blank the two options for "all or part of filename" and "a word or phrase in the file", but do set the "Look in:" drop down to search in your "Local Hard Drive (C):":
Finally hit the Search button and watch your results. Be patient, because you probably have thousands of images on your computer from cameras and innocently browsing the web.
You will want to do this when your spouse will be away for at least an hour or two, because it can take awhile to get the search results, especially if your family takes lots of digital pictures or movies, or searches the web a lot.
When the results are finished, change the viewing format to “Thumbnails” so you can see a thumbnail of what the picture looks like.
Most porn pictures actually are titled with numbers rather than sleazy titles, so viewing by thumbnails is the easiest method.
You will either see porn pictures and movies here or not. If you do see them, you can find their original location (and probably a larger stash) by hovering over the image (as in the screenshot below) or right-clicking a file and selecting “Properties”. In the properties window that pops up, examine the “Location” entry, it scrolls off the page unseen. You can double-click it (even though it does not look like it is editable) to highlight it, then copy it by hitting “Control + C” on your keyboard, then pasting it into your browser or Windows Explorer address bar to see that location.
If you find a stash of pornographic pictures or movies, the next move is up to you. You can screenshot them (hit “PrintScreen” button on keyboard, then “Paste” into any word document) and print them out for evidence, you can leave it open and confront your spouse when they get home, you can copy the files off to CD, or you can simply delete them.
The most common porn image file types will be .jpg, .jpeg, and .png; though high resolution .tif and .tiff files are possible.
Have you found pornography using this simple method?
How porn can be hidden
Even if you don’t see pornography-related charges on your credit card statements or phone bills, the Internet is full of free porn sources that your spouse could access.
Is your spouse a bigger computer expert than you? There are a number of ways that even computer experts trip up and hidden porn habits can be found out.
How to check for spouse porn habits
Are you concerned your spouse might be downloading or viewing pornographic pictures or videos?
Do you wish there were a way to find out in just a few minutes, and retire your concerns?
I will describe simple techniques to search your computer for evidence of pornographic viewing and downloading.
