MiTeC Instant Messaging History Browser

Instant messaging gives you the possibility to get in touch with friends, family, and business associates in real time, regardless of location, as long as there's an active Internet connection. With your permission, conversation history is recorded and most IM applications let you easily review them. A more efficient approach is with tools like MiTeC Instant Messaging History Browser, packed with a few extra options.

The application comes in a light package that doesn't even require you to go through a setup process for everything to work. This enables you to take it with you on a removable storage device, while keeping the target PC's health status intact, because registries are not modified. However, you need to have one of the supported IM apps installed for any kind of data to be retrieved.

When the main window is brought up, you can pick the Windows account to target, as well as whether to run a fresh scan of the system or open previous sessions. Regardless of your choice, you end up in the actual dashboard, which is pretty easy to go through.

Supported IM applications are enlisted in a side panel, with options like Skype, Windows Live Messenger, which is a discontinued project and replaced by the previous entry, ICQ, as well as the popular Yahoo! Messenger. Upon selection, all users you got in touch with are enlisted, while picking an entry displays messages in the rest of the space, with color differentiation for interlocutors.

An upper toolbar is fitted with a search field to find conversations of interest in the nick of time. Details and call history are displayed in different tabs, showing messages, as well as call timestamp and duration. Sadly, there's no built-in option to export conversations to a text file, but you can copy the text and insert it in a dedicated editor for processing or saving.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that MiTeC Instant Messaging History Browser is a straightforward application that does exactly what the name suggests. In case the supported IM clients are not installed on your PC, you can open conversation files, with the interface cleverly displaying content and related info.