how do i delete certain history page from the drop down box?

Question

how do i delete away certain web address from the drop down bar without clearing the whole history data??

Answer 1

right click on a empty area of the task bar on the bottom of the screen and select properties then select the start menu tab then clik on the customize button then clik on the clear button. Assuming you have XP,

Answer 2

I do not think that you can delete one specific web addresses from the drop down list. Either you delete all of them or you delete none.

All of them can be deleted at the same time by clearing the History , Cookies and Temporary Internet Files. As mentioned in another answer, the moment you select them to right click and delete them, you will be instantly taken to that website if you are not really quick. It does not go away at all by deleting it this way anyway. You can try it.

Answer 3

Clear my Tracks: yes please!!!!
First let me introduce myself. My name is Uche Enuha and I am a recent college graduate hire to the Internet Explorer team. I am a Program Manager working on the User Experience team.
Now to the main point. There is a new feature in IE7 called ‘Delete Browsing History’ that gives users an easy way to control the data stored by the browser.I am going to answer the three main questions that I think are going through your heads right now, I’ll let you meditate on the information and allow the excitement to naturally evolve.

Why would I use this feature?
I am glad you asked this question. Let’s look at an example of how this feature can be used. So you’re trying to buy a gift for your loved one and you know how important it is to keep this mission secret. You’re aware of every site you visit but your machine is aware of even more; the stuff you type, the information you read, even the cookies requested by the site where you eventually buy the gift. You realize how important it is that your loved one never gets hold of any of this information. So you do what we all would, you try and cover your tracks. Now back in IE6, you would have to spend a lot of time looking through various places on your computer to get rid of all the relevant information and possibly still miss some critical information. Now with the ‘Delete Browsing History’ feature, we are giving every person the ability to clear all their browsing information from one location with a click of a button and, the peace of mind that the job was done right.

What does this feature really do?
It deletes the following items which are split into five categories, listed below:

Temporary Internet Files: Downloaded files cached on the client for quick access
Temporary Internet Files cached for quick access
Cached files containing Offline favorites
Information stored by other applications in the Temporary Internet Files folder (e.g. attachment files stored by Outlook)
Cookies: Information persisted by the client on behalf of the server
Cookies
XML Userdata cache
History: website addresses (URLs) stored to enable History/most recently used website addresses
Typed website addresses used for Addressbar Autocomplete
The list of most recently used website addresses in the Run… dialog
URL History entries (excluding ones marked as Offline Favorites)
Stored value for Encoding (Code Page)
Form Data: User-entered personal data stored by the client
AutoComplete form data
Passwords: User-entered personal data stored by the client
AutoComplete password data
(Please note, if you’re part of a domain in a corporate environment, an administrator has the ability to disable certain aspects of this feature.)

The User Interface for this feature provides information about what exactly these types of information are and gives the user the ability to individually delete each type of information or delete all information at once. Here’s what the main dialog looks like:



As an added bonus, if cleaning up is taking a while, a cancellable progress dialog is shown. You can ignore the dialog and go back to the browser (or even close it) – the process will continue in the background until it’s done. No more sitting around waiting for your 200MB cache to be emptied!

Where can we find this great feature?
Just go to the Tools menu and you’ll see ‘Delete Browsing History…’. Or whilst you’re in the internet options dialog, you can find this feature under the General tab in the Browsing history section cleverly disguised as the ‘Delete…’ button.

So there you have it. ‘Delete Browsing History…’ will be coming to a computer near you very shortly. Use it and enjoy it. Think of it as your friend that has your back and covers your tracks.

-Uche

Answer 4

You can delete the history of search bar on ur homepage (whatever it is either Yahoo! or Google) by following this path. Tools> internet options> content> auto complete> clear forms. To stop the generation of history uncheck the box of forms.

You can delete the search history on ur yahoo toolbar this way. click the arrow in the search box. Select options, click clear history. Follow this path also. Pencil> toolbar options> uncheck the boxes of enable auto complete and enable history> ok.

To delete address bar history, follow this path. Tools> internet options> general > clear history > set the number of days to zero> ok.

http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=465 On this link u will get the information how to delete search history if u hv Mozilla or Safari as ur Internet browser also.
To know more please visit the following links.
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/indexing/indexing-13.html
http://search.msn.com.my/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_RemoveSite.htm
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar/basics/toolbar-10.html
It will solve your all search related problems.

Answer 5

right click on the item then delete

Answer 6

No no no....... high light what you want deleted, then hit shift then hit delete! Easy-Peasy!