My yahoo search bar drops down to show each of the searches I have done. How do I get it to quit doing that?

Answer 1

★★ CLEAR HISTORY ★★

◙ TIP: If you are trying to hide your web travels. Deleting your web history won't do you any good since it can easily be restored. Scroll to the bottom of this message.

◙ Internet Explorer 6.0 or older versions
1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+H to open the History Panel. Move your cursor over the one you want and click your right mouse button. When the menu appears click on DELETE.
2. To clear EVERY history item. Go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > GENERAL TAB > CLEAR HISTORY BUTTON

◙ Firefox
1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+H to view the history list. Then choose a chronological or alphabetical hierarchy in the View menu (the default is chronological, from most recent to oldest). Now browse to the domain, date, or page you want to expunge, right-click it, and choose Delete. Click the red X in the top-left corner to close the History pane.
2. To clear EVERY history item. Go to Tools > Options and click the "Privacy" tab. Click the + next to "History" to expand it. Just hit the "Clear" button.
3. To delete Firefox's entire record of your browsing activity, choose Tools > Options > Privacy > History > Clear Browsing History Now (this dialog box also lets you set the number of days your history is recorded). Click OK when you're finished. To clear the browser's history of your file downloads, press -J to open the Downloads window and click Clean Up. Firefox clears the download history automatically if you choose Tools > Options > Privacy > Download History and select either Upon successful download or When Firefox exits in the drop-down menu next to 'Remove files from the Download Manager'.

◙ Opera
1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+ALT+H to view the histpry list. Find a history entry and right click it and choose DELETE.
2. To erase all entries from the History list, choose Tools > Preferences > Advanced > History, and click Clear next to 'Visited addresses'. To wipe out the browser's download history, press --T, right-click a downloaded file, and click either Remove transfer or Remove all finished (to clear all completed downloads from the list).

◙ Privacy Guard--Very important! Read Everything here.
http://www.amicutilities.com/privacy-guard/

★★ CLEAR HISTORY IN TOOLBARS ★★

◙ Yahoo Toolbar
☞ http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-10.html

◙ Google Toolbar
☞ http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=9271

◙ Many software products have HISTORY in them. Read about them here.
☞ http://www.milincorporated.com/a-delete-history.html

◙ HOW TO RECOVER DELETED HISTORY IN WINDOWS
☞ http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Deleted-History-in-Windows

Answer 2

go to yahoo preferences (just pull down the red Y on your bar)....go to Toolbar options.....turn it off.....you can do anything you want and only you and your God will know

Answer 3

try this

tools --> internet options --> content tab

click on autocomplete and change the settings to how you want them