how do i delete items i have looked up on my search bar?

Question

my computer holds on to all the info i have ever looked up, and saves it on my search bars. How do i get rid of that feature?

Answer 1

Disable AutoComplete if you are using IE:

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.
OR
The other simple way is to bring the mouse over the search which u want to delete and press the delete key ! As simple as that.

Answer 2

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If you wish to delete search history saved by the browser and auto-filled when you type on the yahoo or any site website, here is the solution:

To clear your history from Internet Explorer:
1. Go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Select "Internet Options."
3. Click the "General" tab.
4. Click the "Clear History" button. To completely disable the history function, set "Days to keep pages in history" to zero.

To clear your history from Mozilla Firefox:
1. Go to the "Tools" menu.
2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History."
3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0").
4. Click "OK" to exit.

Hope you can find this as your solution :)

Answer 3

If you are talking about the yahoo toolbar click the pencil and go to clear search history!
TO Stop recent searches from popping up in the drop down menu on a search page.

Go to the search site site, click where you would type then push the down arrow
on your keyboard.
As you move your pointer over a word it is highlighted,
Highlight the word in the list then hold down the delete key on your keyboard.

Answer 4

At the top of your internet screen click on Tools, than Internet Options. Go to Content tab. Click on Auto Complete. Click on Clear Passwords and Clear Forms. That may help.

Answer 5

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.
To clear your history from Mozilla Firefox:
1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History." 3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0"). 4. Click "OK" to exit.
or Firebox * Either press Ctrl+Shift+Del or Click Tools=>Clear Private Data.
* To pemanently stop saving data that you entered in search and form fields :
Goto to Tools=>options=>Privacy=>Saved... uncheck the "Save Information As I enter in Form and Search Fields"
your search or form entries will not appear anymore.

Google Toolbar :To clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the Google Toolbar:1. Click on the 'Google' logo to access the drop-down menu.
2. Select the 'Clear Search History' option. This will clear all the previous searches from the drop-down box.
All you recent searches on the toolbar will be cleared

To delete the search tool in the start menu, Go to Start >> Run >> Type in REGEDIT

Navigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft\Search Assitant\ACMru

Your actual search list is kept there. Delete the actual text used for your searches, nothing else.

Answer 6

Internet explorer > Tools > Internet Options > Clear history

Good luck.

Answer 7

Are you talking about "history"?
In IE, click Tools, cl Internet Options.
Delete cookies.
Delete files (offline).
Adjust History. See how long you have it set to keep. Reduce it to 0 if you want.

Answer 8

Right click on clock icon on top bar-your history will show up on left sidebar right click on each day and
delete:

Answer 9

go to tools then internet options then click delete all cookies

Answer 10

go to tools, internet options, clear history.