AutoComplete Question (All)

[hcorson87]

Is there a way to delete the AutoComplete entries through the registry? I have IE6.

[Deke]

You can turn autocomplete off. Here is what I have found out on this subject:

I did some more research and found this in a November 2000 posting :There are 2 ways that address may remain to be seen by others.
1) If you hit the drop down arrow, and see a bunch of addresses that you want to get rid of, these can be deleted by clearing the history in Internet Explorer:

Go to "Tools" then "Internet Options" then use the "Clear History" Button.

2) The second way that an old address will come back to haunt you:
If you start to type, and the address of a site that you have visited before, appears in the address bar, then the site is stored in your favorites folder, and needs to be deleted from there.

If you don't want anyone to see where you've been surfing, clear the history, and don't store these pages in your favorites, because even if you give them a different name in favorites, the real url will appear on your address bar when you type the first few letters of it.

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I probably did an overkill but I exported my favorites and cookies then deleted both and went into DOS and did a deltree of index.dat, history, and cookies. The only urls that came up were two shortcuts I had on my desktop and shortcuts on my taskbar. The only problem is when you put your favorites back,the urls come back. At least you now know how to be rid of the little devils for as long as you can get by without your favorites.

Deke


Deke

[DanK]

To clear individual items from the list of form or password suggestions, click the item in the list of suggestions for that field and then press DELETE.

[Nana]

hcorson87,

This works in IE 5.5 SP2, but I don't know if it does in IE6.

Tools, Internet Options, Content Tab, Under the topic heading Personal Information, there is an Auto Complete button. Click it and you get another window.

In that window, there are buttons to clear Auto Complete history. There are also radio buttons to adjust how, or if, you want to use Auto Complete.


Credit to <font color=green>reghakr</font color=green>.

Hope this helps.

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