Won't delete sites from autosuggest

[affer2]

I've seen this problem around but haven't found a way to completely
fix it.

What happens is that three sites refuse to be deleted from my
autosuggest when typing in a webpage.

As I begin to type a webpage, these always come up. (For example, as
I type "www.c" then it suggests "www.cpuc.ca.gov". I've managed to
delete most (I had as many as 25 that wouldn't delete), but still
these remain (yes, one is a site I would rather not have anyone know
I've been too, but the others are normal sites).

These are the steps I have taken, so we don't repeat ourselves.

1. Gone to Tools>Intenet Options>Content>Autocomplete>Cleared

2. Gone to Tools>Internet Options>Clear History

3. Gone my registry and deleted Typed URLs

4. Run Ad-Aware

5. Run Norton Antivirus and Internet Security

6. Downloaded and used a purge program (PURGE IE) to purge visited
URLS (this worked to get rid of about 90% of them, but the three
remain)

7. Started in MS-DOS and deleted "index.dat" in Content.IE folder.
Folder size went from 2.6KB to 48B. "Find" in new dat file does not
show sites.

I have done all these steps REPEATEDLY over the last few weeks.
However, I still have a few sites that refuse to be deleted from
autosuggest.

 

[Don Varnau]

Hi,
PurgeIE and deleting the index.dat file (if you deleted the right one)
should have covered this, but delete the History folder also. See the
instructions at http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

And... are you sure that these sites aren't in Favorites?

And... try CWShredder from http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html It
hasn't been updated for a while, but may find something that Ad-aware
missed. Also run Spybot - Search & Destroy from
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd

Hope this helps,
Don