How do you clear history, eg Google, off your PC?

Question

I have google toolbar on my works pc - I just realised everything I have ever googled, either on the toolbar or through the google webpage, is stored on here. I frequently clear history and delete files and cookies through tools/options and assumed I was clearing down everything.

Can someone please explain how I get rid of my searches??

Answer 1

Get ccleaner - www.ccleaner.com - and stop searching for naughty things. :)

Answer 2

It's easy. On the Google Tool Bar Where the word Google is click on it and then click Clear Search History. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

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 turn off this feature:
> Open an Internet Explorer page
> Go to tools
> Click on Internet options
> Click the content tab
> Then click the auto complete button, make sure you uncheck every thing in there.

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.
This will resolve it all :)

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These steps are if you have Yahoo! Toolbar:
If you want to remove all the entries in your search history right now, but you still want Yahoo! Toolbar to remember your searches in the future, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Clear Recent Searches".

If you want to save your recent searches while you're searching on the Web, but automatically clear the saved searches when you close your browser window, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Toolbar Options".
3. Select "Auto-clear recent searches when exiting IE" so there's a checkmark in the box next to it.
4. Click "OK".
If you want to disable the feature entirely so none of your searches are saved, do the following:

1. Click the Pencil menu.
2. Select "Toolbar Options".
3. Click "Remember Recent Searches" so there's not a checkmark in the box next to it.
4. Click "OK"

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Safari
1. Go to the "Safari" menu and select "Preferences"
2. From the menus that pop up, select "Autofill"
3. Go to "Other forms" line and select the "Edit" button
4. From the list of sites for which AutoFill is currently being applied, select "Google.com" > "Remove" > "Done"

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Google Toolbar:
For Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), please follow these steps:

1. Click on the "Settings" button located on your Toolbar.
2. Select "Options" from the drop-down menu.
3. Click "Search Box Settings."
4. Un-check the box next to "Suggest popular searches."
5. Click "OK" in each of the windows to close them.

For Mozilla Firefox, please follow these steps:

1. Click the "Options" button on your Toolbar.
2. Select the "Search" tab.
3. Un-check the box next to "Show popular queries as you type."
4. Click "OK." :)

Answer 4

easy way to delete history from google click on letter A then underneath the toolbar is your list of things you have been on .click your mouse on the top one and press the delete key and keep your finger on it you will see your searches disappear and ignore silly negative replys

Answer 5

yeah, it's easily done, just go to google.com and click in the search bar, you'll see a list drop down of all the searches you have made, put the mouse on the top one, and press the [Del] button, and you'll notice it deletes it, so just hold the [Del] button down until they're all gone, hope that works for ya.

Answer 6

Just click into the space where you type in your searches, highlight them one after the other by running your cursor over each, then hit Delete. That does it.

Answer 7

haha clearly been looking at p0rn! you cant really there will always be a way of recovering files from a hard drive unless you fully format the disk. tools>internet options (in internet explorer) start looking around in there for visible removal tactics!

Answer 8

there should be an option either on the google website or on your computer to disable toolbar pop up menus.

Go into properties of google or your computer.

Answer 9

If you have internet explorer, you can go to internet options and then go to content and then autocomplete and click on clear forms. If you want to remove your website history. Go to internet options, then clear history.

Answer 10

minimise your browser click the start button click settings click taskbar and start menu click advanced click clear. this should clear all recently accessed documents and searches

Answer 11

Gently run a magnet back and forward over your hard drive.

You could use fdisk to re-enable your c: drive.

You could buy a search destroying piece of software.

Or you could stop looking at porn all the time and stop worrying about it.