Address Bar

[Guest]

I recently bought a cheap computer with Windows XP at a flea market and have
been cleaning up files and cached items. Now I went and cleaned up the
history files and went to the address bar. The address bar cleared up as it
was supposed to. Now, when I go to type in a url, I put in the first letter,
say S for sedo.com and there are a lot of urls listed in there still. I went
through each alphabet letter individually, and found many urls still listed.

How do I go about cleaning all these unwanted url listings off of the
address list now for individual letters.

Thanks, David

 

[Unk]

I recently bought a cheap computer with Windows XP at a flea market and have
been cleaning up files and cached items. Now I went and cleaned up the
history files and went to the address bar. The address bar cleared up as it
was supposed to. Now, when I go to type in a url, I put in the first letter,
say S for sedo.com and there are a lot of urls listed in there still. I went
through each alphabet letter individually, and found many urls still listed.

How do I go about cleaning all these unwanted url listings off of the
address list now for individual letters.

Thanks, David

Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, "Internet Options"
Click "Content" tab, under the "Personal Information" section,
click the "AutoComplete" button, uncheck what you don't want.
To clear the "Auto Complete History", click the "Clear Forms" button.

 

[Ron Sommer]

To delete Autocomplete entries from the Address bar list

The AutoComplete feature saves previous entries you've made for Web
addresses, forms, and passwords. To delete entries from the Address bar, you
must clear your History folder. You cannot clear individual entries from the
list of saved entries.

1.. On the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet Options.
2.. Click the General tab.
3.. Under History, click Clear History.
Notes

a.. When typing information in Web forms, and typing passwords, you can
remove an item from the list of suggestions by clicking the item and then
pressing the DELETE key.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Ron has told you how to clear autocomplete. My suggestion is to format the
system and create your own clean installation as you have no idea what else
the original owner may have left behind (frankly I would never sell one of
my old systems without doing so first). Why would you want to spend your
time cleaning someone else's junk?

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Rock]

I recently bought a cheap computer with Windows XP at a flea market and have
been cleaning up files and cached items. Now I went and cleaned up the
history files and went to the address bar. The address bar cleared up as it
was supposed to. Now, when I go to type in a url, I put in the first letter,
say S for sedo.com and there are a lot of urls listed in there still. I went
through each alphabet letter individually, and found many urls still listed.

How do I go about cleaning all these unwanted url listings off of the
address list now for individual letters.

Thanks, David

I would recommend you do a clean install of the OS and applications.
You don't want to inherit all the problems the system might have, both
from a function standpoint and from viruses, malware, kiddie porn etc.