clearing history

[numnutz]

does anyone know of what software and or what setting needs to be checked so that a persons history does not pop down in "windows" explorer address bar? I remembered at one time how to do it but cant remember now. if i type a letter in the address bar it drops down a persons history like if I type an A on mine it drops down to antec, B drops down to boxnet, C drops down to ccleaner, control panel, contract, computer repair.

none of the cleaner programs I have tried clear that out ccleaner, glary, IObit...weird....thanks
Eric

 

[dbdawn]

Clear the temp files, browsing history, etc.... in internet explorer.

 

[numnutz]

that only clears out internet history that does not delete delete of there search history

 

[dbdawn]

that only clears out internet history that does not delete delete of there search history

Just did it.

WinXP Pro SP3
IE 8 is installed.

I went through and cleaned everything out and it cleared the search history from the explorer address bar.

 

[numnutz]

the customer machine in question was on IE6

 

[dbdawn]

you can always highlight the entry and then backspace or delete.........

I find it surprising that you cannot clear the history from within IE. Are you clearing everything out, temp internet files, cookies, history, form data and auto complete?
Its been awhile since I have had a IE6 machine to look at.

 

[numnutz]

back spacing and deleting it does nothing if u type it again its still there, I will up grade the pc to 8 and see if it just clears it up, thanks

 

[Methical]

This may help you my friend ..

:emptyiecache
echo.
REM Delete Internet Explorer Cache
echo Deleting Internet Explorer cache
echo Please wait..
echo.
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
echo Deleting History
rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
echo Deleting Cookies
rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
echo Deleting Temporary Internet Files
rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
echo Deleting Form Data
rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16
@ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
REM echo Deleting Password History
REM rundll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32
REM @ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 -w 1000 > nul 
echo.
echo Internet Explorer Cache Cleared.
echo.

 

[Xander]

the customer machine in question was on IE6

Then, for the sake of the world, you should fix that.

I wouldn't leave an IE6 system running as is. IE6 MUST DIE!

 

[numnutz]

nope none of these things clear out the history from "Windows" explorer address bar. I "think" it might have something to do with indexing dont remember I no I was able to turn it off at one time awhile ago just forgot how

 

[dbdawn]

Then, for the sake of the world, you should fix that.

I wouldn't leave an IE6 system running as is. IE6 MUST DIE!

I agree, there is nothing wrong with IE8 it actually is quite a nice browser.

nope none of these things clear out the history from "Windows" explorer address bar. I "think" it might have something to do with indexing dont remember I no I was able to turn it off at one time awhile ago just forgot how

Well I do not know what to tell you. I found a machine that still had IE6 on it and I cleared the history from the internet options and it cleared the windows explorer address bar history.

Maybe there is a windows search installed on the desktop that is doing something? dunno

 

[numnutz]

Like I said none of these things has anything to do with "WINDOWS" explorer address bar and the history that pops up in that when you start to type. I upgraded the pc to IE8 and as pretty and nice as IE8 is after I ran the delete everything from internet options the history that is separate from IE is still there. Thanks
Eric

 

[numnutz]

clearing auto complete didnt do it but turning off auto complete worked, thanks