How do you delete websites from the drop down box - on a laptop?

Question

THANKS FOR THE ANSWERS FOR THE DROPDOWN DELETE BUT IT DIDNT WORK ON MY LAPTOP WHAT ELSE CAN I DO TO ERASE- NOTHING IS WORKING!

Answer 1

To get rid of a single item do the following. Go to the site so the history will update it as being visited today. Display the history. Look at todays date, hilight the site, and press delete (in Firefox you must use shift delete).

Answer 2

Tools -> Internet Options - History - clear

Answer 3

You go to history and look for the site under particular date and then delete it. I do many times when i needed to.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

To delete you your searches,history..etc..Simply go to the top to "Tools" go down and select "internet options" then click on "delete cookies".To delete sites you visited go to "Tools" once again then click on "Internet tools" and then instead of delete cookies click on "Clear history".

Answer 6

The same way you would on any other computer. Delete your cookies, search history, temp files, and history.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

do not delete cookies. whomever said that should not be answering questions.

★★ CLEAR HISTORY ★★

◙ TIP: IF YOU ARE TRYING TO HIDE YOUR WEB TRAVELS, DELETING YOUR WEB HISTORY WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD. ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DELETED CAN BE UNDELTED. SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

◙ 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 9

go to internet option, delete files and delete cookies. good luck.

Answer 10

clear your history under you internet options and delete cookies on and off line
find that under your control pannel under internet options