Deleting windows internet autocomplete

See: How to delete and organize Internet favorites and bookmarks. AutoComplete is for web address history and search queries that were typed into a search or address bar. Some web page suggestions still show after clearing your browser history because, in Safari, they are also tied to your bookmarks. To clear all your autocomplete data at the same time, you need to delete your browsing history. Some web page suggestions still show after clearing your browser history because, in Opera, they are also tied to your bookmarks.

Tip To clear all suggestions for web addresses, see: How do I clear my address bar history? Note While similar, autocomplete and autofill are not the same thing. Note Some web page suggestions still show after clearing your browser history because, in Edge, they are also tied to your bookmarks. Delete all the URLx e. Note: If you delete only certain keys, make sure that the remaining keys are in renamed in sequential order start from url1. Otherwise you might corrupte your remaining keys.

Hope this helps, Sincerely, Rocco. Individual items can be deleted from the address bar by clicking the History button and deleting the item appearing in the History list. I spent hours trying to delete the dropdown list. I cleared the history etc. Call me stupid but I realised eventually that the only addresses showing in the list were ones that were stored in my favourites.

Hope this helps. It took like 2 minutes. All you have to do is download the utility, unzip it to a folder, click on the exe file, check the boxes that you want to delete and then delete them with the X at the top.

It works very well. I had the same problem. I deleted the entry from the registry and then I did a search on my history click the history icon on the ie and then click search for the annoying URL it was a misspell of a link I usually type a lot.

Finally I just right clicked and delete and it stopped showing it on the addressbar when I started typing. I did not realize how long the memory is kept there — I wonder if that has any bearings on the speed of the system; as all of that would take up some disk space.

Thanx Leo! I had a problem recently with urls appearing and not being cleared after the normal means of clearing history etc.. I immediately lost all the urls that were permanently on the IE browser. I am not sure if this is a permanent fix but my browser is clear of the clutter. Not a computer whiz so I need simple directions. Just did update on Windows and do not like having history and favorites in my address bar. When I right click on address bar to enter previous sites, the bar also shows my favorites and history.

Before I had to click on icon that had favorites. How do I get address bar to only show www. I also tried the tools-internet options-delete. Nothing works. I am trying to delete sites from my address bar without deleting the history. Is there a way of doing this or a program for this? I heard a friend of mine tell me that he got fired for looking at an adult site, he told me he followed it from a spam email! I also heard a story about some guys wife filing for divorce because she read a Word file that he was using to write a letter to his ex-girlfriend.

I am trying to delete my browsing history from the Google search tool bar on the home page of Explorer. I tried all the suggestions above. What can I do? I have installed IE7 on a new computer. In my history list, it includes all files I have opened and all folders I have navigated to. I only want to display internet sites in my internet history.

Where is the setting so that only webistes are displayed in history? I cannot get to the bottom of my google history to click Delete History. I am not very computer literate can you tell me what I need to do?

Thank you. You can automate the process with history erasers. Had the issue solved in seconds. Thank you for sharing your wisdom! I just found out how to just delete one item from the autocomplete list. And now I feel like an idiot but here it is. How simple is that Wow.

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Is it turned on? Yes it is. Use the toggle switch next to Save and fill payment methods to choose whether or not Edge should save and autopopulate your payment information A. To add a credit card to Edge, click the Add card button B. Fill out the payment information, then click the Save button at the bottom. To edit or delete payment info, click the icon next to one of the entries C , and select Edit or Delete from the drop-down menu. To choose whether or not Edge should save and autopopulate your address information, enable or disable Save and fill addresses A.

To input a new address, click the Add address button B. Fill in the appropriate information, then click the Save button. To edit or delete address info, click the icon next to one of the entries C , and select Edit or Delete from the drop-down menu. To create a form entry - Click , fill out the appropriate information, then click the button. To edit the form entry - Click an existing form entry, make your changes, then click the button.

For more information, see Chromium issue Although autocomplete cannot be fully disabled in Google Chrome, the following steps may reduce the frequency of autocompleted URLs. Follow these steps to turn off typing suggestions in the address bar of Microsoft Edge. The following section shows you how to toggle site suggestions in Microsoft Edge Legacy.

The following section shows you how toggle autocomplete suggestions on and off in Safari. To enable or disable autocomplete in Opera , follow these steps.