Re: Delete / don't keep autocomplete history in browser

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Hi Happy :-)

You should then try to reset your IE settings to Default.

How to restore all IE Default settings

Open IE and do the following:

First:
Go to Tools>Internet Options>General? tab
Under Temporary Internet Files, click the "Delete Files" button, then
"Delete all off-line content" and click OK.
Then click the "Delete Cookies" button, then click the "Clear History" and
click Yes in the subsequent warning box to clear all history.

Next, while still in the Internet Options:

Click on the Security tab>click on the Internet Icon in the window, then
click Default settings.
Then click on the Custom level button and reset the security level to Medium
if it is set to anything else.
Click Apply

Close IE to allow changes to take effect, reopen IE

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
MS MVP - Windows IE/OE [DTS/AumHa]
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"Happy" <happy@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is becoming quite a task! I tried all the things suggested, and while
I have been able to clear the history and the drop down record, I cant
seem to disable it, going forward. As soon as I search another item, it
starts another list! I even downloaded Google 4.0 beta, and followed their
instructions for disabling the search history, but they indicated that if
that didn't work, it was a function of the browser, not Google.
Still at square one. (This is obviously not a big thing, but it has now
become my mission, or I should say ONE of my missions!)
"Jan Il" <abuseSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Happy :-)

First, try this:

If you have the Google Toolbar installed, click on Google logo to access
a drop down
menu. Choose the Clear Search History option.
This clears all previous searches listed in the drop down box.

If still no joy, then continue:

If you have turned off the Autocomplete and set your History to 0 days,
then the URLs yo uare seeing are those that are still in your History
cache. You can clean them out of the History using this free utiility:

CCleaner
http://www.ccleaner.com/
or
http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144-10315544.html

or...

Delete the History folder and index.dat:
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm


Hope this helps.

Jan :)
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Thanks for all these detailed replies--- I have tried them all, and,
while learning a few things, still have not solved my little problem.
Perhaps I was not specific enough--- the problem is that, while using
Google inside IE, when you start to type in an item for Google to
search, up comes a list of all the things searched previously that start
with the same letter. ie. looking for "dogs" for example, as soon as you
type the letter "d", up come all the words previously searched that
start with "d". I find this useless, and would like to get rid of it.
"Hunt" <Hunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Happy,

Open IE - Tools -> Internet Options -> under General Tab -> click on
Clear
History., as well as click on Delete cookies and Delete files, please
chnage
Days to keep the pages to "0".

Do enable this also. Under Internet options their is tab Advanced ->
Scroll
down to Security-> Check the option which says Empty Temporary Internet
files
folder when browser is closed. and click on apply.

--
Caliber is Capacity Responding to Circumstances.

Hunt


"Happy" wrote:

Is there a way to automatically delete, or not keep, the history of
browsed
items? By this I mean when you start to type something in the browser
window, up comes a list of previously browsed items. How can this be
eliminated?
















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