How do you turn off the autocomplete function in Internet Explorer's address bar, where you type in a URL?

Question

(Like when you type in "www.a...[whatever]" and then it brings up this long embarrassing history of all the addresses you've visited starting with 'a') How do you turn that off?

Answer 1

◙ To disable all AutoComplete settings:

1. From Internet Explorer, choose "Tools" then "Internet Options".
2. From the "Internet Options" multi-tabbed dialog box that appears, select the "Content" tab.
3. Click the "AutoComplete" button.
4. Uncheck everything.
5. Click the "Clear Forms" button.
6. Click the "Clear Passwords" button.
7. Press "OK" to close the dialog boxes.

◙ AutoComplete may not stay off completely because some webmasters have autocomplete="on" in the form tag in their web forms. If you come to one of these and you can't get the AutoComplete to leave you alone while you type something in to the form. Simply paste the text in from a wordprocessor or notepad and it won't bother you.

Answer 2

To delete Temporary Internet Files
Go to My Computer -> Control Panel -> Internet or Internet Options.

Here you will find a Delete Files button in the Temporary Internet Files section. Simply click that to clear your browser's cache.

To clear the History.
Click on the History button in the History section towards the bottom of the screen, to clear your browser's History.

If you only want to remove certain items from the History,

open Internet Explorer & click on View -> Explorer Bar -> History.

This will put your History on the left for you to edit as you wish...simply right click on an item & choose Delete to remove it.

To remove your browser's cookies, hit the Delete Files

button in the Temporary Internet Files section. Next, click the Delete Cookies button and click on OK.

Then click on Content tab, Then Auto complete then click on Clear passwords,clear forms

Answer 3

go to control panel....internet optionts.....when u get the internet properties box click on content, there shuold be an auto-complete tab, then again if u dont have have xp, disregard above but solution should be similar....smile