I do not want my system to show recent searches in Windows Search option?Does someone know how to fix it?

Question

You know when you go to Start menu in MS Windows and click on Search.Window pops up with different search criteria.For example if I want to search any file name starting with T, as soon as I type letter "T", system shows all the past searches starting with letter "T"...How can we stop that?

Answer 1

Windows search history. It can be seen if you open the Search results window. To do that you need to click Start menu -> Search. In this window there are many fields where AutoComplete compromises your privacy.
As you can see, there are four types of search that you can make - Pictures, music, or video, Documents (word processing, spreadsheet, etc.), All files and folders and Computers or people. In the forms for each of these types of search there are fields that show the words that have been entered in the past.

You can turn off AutoComplete for the search forms but this does not prevent someone to turn it back on and see the things that you have searched for. The only real solution to this history problem is to clean all these history records.

Answer 2

Try CCleaner - it removes lots of unwanted files/information.

To disable it completely, try the following. First, you've heard all the stories about people messing up their computer by editing the registry - right?

Manual Edit:

Go to Start/Run/Regedit and navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru

To prevent keeping a history altogether, right click ACMru/Permissions/Deny all users and groups listed. Alternatively, IE/Search/Change Preferences/Turn AutoComplete Off.


Mike Honeycutt