How do i get rid of the drop down past search box that comes up when you do a new search?

Question

when i type something in the search block a drop down thing comes up showing things that i have already searched that start with the same letter how do i get rid of this .

Answer 1

It's the AutoComplete feature of your web browser. It's supposed to be a helpful tool that saves previous searches so you don't have to retype them if you need to search for them again. I think it gets a bit annoying too. Here's how to turn it off:

In Internet Explorer (I'll assume that's the browser you use), go to
1. Go to the Tools menu and select Internet Options...
2. Select the Content tab
3. Under the Personal Information area, click on AutoComplete...
4. Unclick the box box by Forms under the Use AutoComplete for section.
5. Click OK and OK again and you're set.

You can also turn off the AutoComplete section for web addresses and username/password menus as well.

To find more information on it, go to the Help menu and search for AutoComplete.

Happy (menu-annoyance free) searching!

Answer 2

★★ DISABLE AUTOCOMPLETE ★★

◙ Internet Explorer

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.

◙ NOTE: AutoComplete may not stay off completely because some webmasters have autocomplete="on" in the form tag in their web forms. If you come to one of these and you can't get the AutoComplete to leave you alone while you type something in to the form. Simply paste the text in from a wordprocessor or notepad and it won't bother you.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

..I do the following regularly almost every hour or so of computer use and especially before I shut down my computer! It helps me control virus and spyware and speeds up my computer!

If you have Internet Explorer as 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.also under "general" click "delete cookies" and "delete files" them "clear history" put days at "0" then click on "settings" click "view files" click on top of page "edit" then click on "select all" then click on file click on "delete" close window makse sure you click on "apply" and "ok"

If you just want to clear the searches on Yahoo Home Page or any other Yahoo 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.
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.