how do i erase the history of my searches from the yahoo homepage?

Answer 1

Please follow this path. Tools > internet options > content > auto complete > clear forms. To stop the generation of history, please uncheck the box of form. U will get ur problem solved.

Answer 2

This works if you have Internet Explorer as your browser.
The record of search history which appears in the search box on Yahoo and Google pages is actually a feature controlled by your browser.

Click Tools at the top of your screen, a menu will drop down, click on Internet Options, then click on the Content tab.
Under Personal information, click on the AutoComplete box.
On the AutoComplete Settings window click the Clear Forms box to delete your current history, or you can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history. When you are finished remember to click OK.

If you just want to clear searches on Yahoo or Google Home Page or any other Yahoo or Google page, double click the search box, this will make a menu drop down with your searches, put your cursor on what you want to delete to highlight it, hit the delete button on your keyboard. If you want to delete everything just hold the delete button down until everything is deleted.

To clear searches on Yahoo Toolbar, click the pencil icon beside the search box, a menu will drop down, click Clear Recent Searches. If you want to stop saving recent searches, click Toolbar Options and uncheck "Enable Search History", or check "Auto-clear Search History when quitting IE" to clear history when you close your Internet connection.

Answer 3

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 4

Also becides what was just posted, set your history to ZERO.

meaning it never even bothers saving webpages at all. it is a security feature which has few uses but its common to set IE history to zero because it wastes too much Hard drive space

Answer 5

Internet Explorer 6.0+
Go to Tools on your IE browser on top, Then click on Internet Options.
Delete your cache (temporary files), history, and cookies.
Then go to Content and click on AutoComplete Settings and clear all form.
If you dont want your fields to auto fill the forms, then you need to disable it in settings.

If you get Internet Explorer 7.0, you can just go to Tools, Internet Options and you will have the option to delete everything all at once with just one click.
Under Browse History, click Delete, and then Delete all.
It will clear everything.

For Netscape, Firefox, or Mozilla browsers -
Click on EDIT and then PREFERENCE.
First click on Privacy-Security/Cookies and delete your cookies.
Next click on Navigator->History and delete your history. Then go to Smart Browsing in Firefox/Mozilla and clear forms.
Then click on Advanced, then Cache and delete your temp files.