URL dropdowns

[yac]

Various search engines as well as IE provide a
dropdown of your previous search topics (or sites) alphabetically. How can these be deleted, selectively? i.e. How can I pick which dropdown item to eliminate from my Google engine so that it doesn't pop up the next time I start to type a query beginning with the same letter?

[Simon Clausen]

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater then these entries are cached by the AutoComplete feature. To disable it click Tools -> Ineternet Options -> Content -> AutoComplete then uncheck all the check boxes and click both the Clear... buttons.

Regards,

Simon Clausen
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[Adrian]

<font color=blue> The ones in google, simple hilight the one you want to delete then press delete on the keybord. Or go to the prefrences page of google and clear the history from there. </font color=blue>

<font color=red> _____ _____ ____ </font color=red>
<font color=red> " Eat More Cheese " </font color=red>

[reghakr]

In Internet Explorer,

Backup the registry and/or export the following key:

To delete individual ones, go to Start&gt;Run, type regedit. Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
delete the entries in the right pane.

You can run a INF file to delete all at one time. Copy and paste the following into Notepad, save it as DelTypedUrls.inf

=======BEGIN CUT=====================
[Version]
Signature="$CHICAGO$"

[DefaultInstall]
DelReg=DeleteMe
AddReg=AddMe

[DeleteMe]

HKCU,"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs"
=========END CUT====================

Right-click on this file, choose install, it will delete the TypedURLs key, yet as soon as you type in another entry, the key will be rebuilt.

reghakr