how do u delete the drop down history in yahoo search on the search bar where u type stuff in?

Answer 1

If you're using Internet Explorer, you can just drop the menu down, hold your mouse over the item you'd like to delete, and press "Delete" (not Backspace). The Delete key that you need to press is to the right of the Enter key, underneath Insert.

If you're using Firefox, I don't know how to do it, sorry... but the Mozilla Firefox forums have proven to be extremely helpful with any problems I've had. Here is a link to the Mozilla Firefox forums: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38

I hope I helped :)

Answer 2

DELETING SEARCH HISTORY

Interenet Explorer --

EASY and Quick -- You should do this often

- TOOLS / INTERNET OPTIONS

- On the GENERAL Tab, click the 'Clear History' Button in the 'History' section

- Hint 1: While you're there, you might want to look at the second section entitled 'Temporary Internet Files'. I routinely click on 'Delete Cookies' ... more on Cookies later.

- Hint 2: You might want to click the 'Delete Files' button too -- Ensure that you delete all Off-Line Content. Note that the more stored web-pages you have the longer this will take. If it takes a few minutes to do, you should have done this a long time ago.

- Hint 3: Do this every month or so, depending on how much surfing you do or if you find yourself on a page of dubious content

- Hint 4: Click the settings button and set "Check for newer versions of stored pages:" to "Every visit to the page". Not doing this will essentially read the page from your hard drive instead of the website and you will not see the latest changes.

- Hint 5: The amount of disk space to use for stored pages should be relatively small -- figure less than 10% of your total drive space (i.e. 10% of a 40GB drive is about 4GB or 4,096MB). Just a rule of thumb, but that's still a LOT of web pages. I spend lots of time on the internet surfing all over the place -- Mine is set at 300MB and I have almost a terabyte of disk space.

- Hint 6: Days to keep search in history ? Make some sense ? Set it to ZERO !

- On the CONTENT Tab, click the AUTO COMPLETE button. Click the "Clear Forms" button. This will delete the stuff that you've previously typed into various web-pages.

GOOGLE AND OTHERS

This is a great source:

http://www.searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2165181


COOKIES and OFF-LINE CONTENT

Cookies are small files left on your computer by web-pages to record little things. They are not all bad. When you key in your zip code on Yahoo Weather on the home page and say "Save this" -- it does -- in a little Cookie File. This way, the next time you visit the site, it 'remembers' your zip code. Fantastic !

Banking sites remember your passwords, your account numbers ... Great ? Would you like a copy of your bank account number posted on the internet ? It can be arranged !

The point is not to be too afraid, but to be responsible. It's far easier to retype your zip code later than to have all of this junk building up on your computer.

ONCE A MONTH OR SO INTERNET HISTORY TO DO LIST --

1. Delete your history, delete your cookies. Delete your off-line content.
2. Empty your Recycle Bin
3. Run Disk Defragmenter ( Start / Programs / Accesories / System Tools / Disk Defragmenter)

This will take a while. You should close EVERYTHING down and leave the computer alone for the 5-30 minutes this takes. It's a good thing to do before you go to bed or before you leave for work.

You should perform the above steps approximately monthly or more frequently.

VIRUS STUFF AND SEARCH HISTORIES / COOKIES

Never, ever update your anti-virus definitions before you clear out your computer as per above.

It's also a very good thing NOT to rely too much on automatic updates ... Sometimes, again, about once a month or so, you'll want to MANUALLY update your virus defintions. If something isn't right, you'll have at least an opportunity to see that it isn't. Too many times, people believe that their defintions are being kept current, when it's simply been bombing/crashing in the middle of the night and exiting without doing anything. This is so simple that I still can't believe people don't know this: As a former hacker, what do you honestly think the very first thing I'm would do to your computer was ? Duh, Disable your auto-updating !!!

SPYWARE / ADWARE

Nasty stuff. Creeps in everywhere. There are a number of free utilities available. I encourage you to try them and throw a few bucks their way for the registered version if you, like I have, found them to be worth their weight in gold.

FYI: Many Spyware programs can't survive very long on a clean history ...

You can Google or Yahoo search for them:

Spybot and Spyware Blaster

Ad-Aware by Lava Soft

Hi-Jack This !

Your choice of Anti-Virus software is up to you. I'm a Norton man myself, but McAfee and some others are tolerable. Sometimes, if you're not the biggest dog in the yard, it might be well advised to have the resources of the biggest Anti-Virus giant out there.

There are a number of free utiilities for managing your Cookies, Temp Folders, and such at:

http://www.iamnotageek.com

Some really great utilities on this site include "System Clean Up", "What's Running" and "Empty Temp Folders" among others. I use a combination of all of these as some will catch things that other's don't.

This is worth a look -- You can learn a lot there.

SO ONCE A MONTH -- PAY A LITTLE ATTENTION TO YOUR PC !

If you own a MAC -- I'm happy for you. You got the virus you paid for.

Answer 3

Do you mean on the Yahoo! Toolbar? If you want to clear searches from the Yahoo! Toolbar:
1. Click the pencil icon on the Yahoo! Toolbar (it's between the big red Y and the search box).
2. Select "Clear Recent Searches."
Done!

Answer 4

o0o search for something you shouldnt have?

you can try making so it drops down, then hover your cursor over it and hit the "delete" key. If that doesn't work, you can click: tools -> options -> clear browsing history. That will delete everything in your history tho. But it should get rid of the drop down.

Answer 5

Just go to tools menu and select Internet Options from the dropdown list and then click on Clear History

Answer 6

Click "Tools" on the main tool bar.
Click "Internet Options..."
Click the button that says "Clear History".

This will delete all the pages in the history file.

Hope that helps!

Answer 7

Go to Tools --> Internet Options -->Clear History

Answer 8

Try this...
In your IE page, click Tools > Internet Options > Delete Cookies > Check > ok > Delete Files > check > ok > Clear History...

Answer 9

Go to ur sidebar right click history and click on clear.

Answer 10

right click on item desired to be deleted. then left click on delete