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delete addresses from address bar

Name: Al B.C.
Date: January 23, 1999 at 19:36:47 Pacific

Comment:

Each time I use my hotmail address it shows up in my location bar and stays there.How can I delete or prevent each entry from occurring there?

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Response Number 1

Name: end efectur
Date: January 24, 1999 at 10:37:04 Pacific

Reply:

one way is goto View> Internet Options> Clear History button

Response Number 2

Name: IHB
Date: May 5, 1999 at 17:55:11 Pacific

Reply:

thanks.it did work.

Response Number 3

Name: Jorge li
Date: June 28, 1999 at 23:24:17 Pacific

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Response Number 4

Name: Geoffrey
Date: July 15, 1999 at 22:35:23 Pacific

Reply:

it did not work help me

Response Number 5

Name: Tamara Watkins
Date: August 9, 1999 at 10:15:43 Pacific

Reply:

Delete this E-mail address

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Response Number 6

Name: Tamara Watkins
Date: August 9, 1999 at 10:17:16 Pacific

Reply:

delete this E-mail address in @yahoo.com

Response Number 7

Name: C
Date: September 8, 1999 at 11:13:11 Pacific

Reply:

Goto internet options and set the numbert of days to keep history to ZERO[0].

Response Number 8

Name: verna
Date: September 20, 1999 at 08:30:44 Pacific

Reply:

i want to delete url address

Response Number 9

Name: michelle
Date: September 22, 1999 at 15:08:13 Pacific

Reply:

I want to delete all the address on my address bar

Response Number 10

Name: brad dunlap
Date: September 23, 1999 at 18:36:01 Pacific

Reply:

i want to delete this address

Response Number 11

Name: useer21
Date: October 22, 1999 at 16:33:06 Pacific

Reply:

thanks it worked

Response Number 12

Name: van tornhout
Date: November 20, 1999 at 11:42:43 Pacific

Reply:

i cannot delete my bad addresses from the bar in internet explorer 5.0

Response Number 13

Name: karen
Date: November 23, 1999 at 10:58:32 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete bad addresses off my address bar.

Response Number 14

Name: www.tsn.com
Date: November 29, 1999 at 20:12:08 Pacific

Reply:

I want to delete files from the address bar. please tell me how to do this.

Response Number 15

Name: SHAWN DAUZAT
Date: November 30, 1999 at 18:31:49 Pacific

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Response Number 16

Name: Mit
Date: December 4, 1999 at 09:39:14 Pacific

Reply:

How about on AOL?

Response Number 17

Name: michael
Date: December 11, 1999 at 10:52:29 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete all addresses from the address bar

Response Number 18

Name: pamela
Date: December 15, 1999 at 23:01:22 Pacific

Reply:

why does everyone have a smart answer to a "seems to be simple" question?Grow up,if you do not know the answer don't waste your time TRYING to be humorous.it only brings out your stupidity.I would also like to know the correct answer.Is that asking too much???

Response Number 19

Name: pamela
Date: December 15, 1999 at 23:19:03 Pacific

Reply:

all you good folks,i called MARZ internet,they said to click on view>internet options>click on clear history.end efectur has his stuff together!!!thanks!

Response Number 20

Name: Sarah Kennedy
Date: December 21, 1999 at 11:35:27 Pacific

Reply:

Thank you very much it worked perfectly they're all gone and that's exactly what i wanted. You're a genius and a lifesaver.
this makes it a lot easier to go to websites if i can just delete them and not have as many to look through. Thanks again,
Sarah Kennedy

Response Number 21

Name: isabella
Date: December 26, 1999 at 22:34:36 Pacific

Reply:

This worked wonders.....Thanks.

Response Number 22

Name: Nayema
Date: January 8, 2000 at 16:28:30 Pacific

Reply:

I clicked on view and I saw no Internet Options. What should I do to delete all the adresses from the Internet bar.

Response Number 23

Name: Jenna
Date: January 12, 2000 at 17:04:22 Pacific

Reply:

i have no internet options in my view. how do i delete by using something different?

Response Number 24

Name: Michelle
Date: January 18, 2000 at 17:49:18 Pacific

Reply:

I dont now how to

Response Number 25

Name: Rob
Date: January 19, 2000 at 06:12:11 Pacific

Reply:

That works, but I only want to delete 1 from the list, How do I do that?

Response Number 26

Name: Larie
Date: January 23, 2000 at 09:28:22 Pacific

Reply:

how the hell do i delete addresses my view thing has no internet options on it

Response Number 27

Name: Diego
Date: January 30, 2000 at 10:55:47 Pacific

Reply:

If you can not find "internet options" under the view tab, go to the "tools" tab and you will find it there.

Response Number 28

Name: Diego
Date: January 30, 2000 at 10:56:16 Pacific

Reply:

If you can not find "internet options" under the view tab, go to the "tools" tab and you will find it there.

Response Number 29

Name: matthew
Date: February 5, 2000 at 21:28:45 Pacific

Reply:

thanks a lot

Response Number 30

Name: dudley
Date: February 16, 2000 at 10:02:39 Pacific

Reply:

your advice didn't work,the addresses are still in my address bar

Response Number 31

Name: jingo
Date: February 19, 2000 at 18:53:26 Pacific

Reply:

I have used internet options to clear history etc. Have also deleted temporary internet files. Still if I type in Ask.com for example my address bar will access and bring up old question and take me to it in ask jeeves. Other old addresses still pop up if I type in manually even though when i hit address bar normally it will be clear. Where are these old addresses hiding and how do I delete them once and for all please.

Response Number 32

Name: katarina
Date: February 19, 2000 at 19:09:31 Pacific

Reply:

how do I get addresses off my address bar?
I went to internet options and cleared my
history,but addresses didn't go away.HELP!!

Response Number 33

Name: Kenneth Diggs
Date: March 2, 2000 at 18:58:59 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete all addresses from the address bar

Response Number 34

Name: Dave Schellenberg
Date: March 12, 2000 at 11:51:33 Pacific

Reply:

How can I delete INBOX e-mail if it keeps coming back even after TRASHING?
Thanks for any help.

Response Number 35

Name: N.Belisle
Date: March 12, 2000 at 19:24:04 Pacific

Reply:

I tried the option and clear history, but all
addresses are sill in the address bar, To:& cc: & bcc: I'm unable to delete these addresses and misspelled addresses from this box.

Response Number 36

Name: Nelson Belisle
Date: March 12, 2000 at 21:07:52 Pacific

Reply:

Maybe I should have been more specific, on how to delete addresses from hotmail,and excitemail address bar? Addresses are numerous and some are errors. Clear History appeared to have worked in Outlook Express, but not hotmail or excitemail.

Response Number 37

Name: Jorge Missi
Date: March 12, 2000 at 22:14:48 Pacific

Reply:

How do I suppose to delete only 1 bad mutha fuqin' address out from this stupid bar?
Somebody...Help!!!

Response Number 38

Name: Jorge Missi
Date: March 12, 2000 at 22:22:42 Pacific

Reply:

What's "days to keep pages in history" suppose to mean?
Yo people I think I got the answer...If you set the days to zero then maybe all of the addresses will be deleted on the same day. Well I've just figured that out but I don't know if that works though.
But I still can't find a way to delete only one address. Help me!!!!!

Response Number 39

Name: sherry
Date: March 13, 2000 at 18:52:52 Pacific

Reply:

thanks it worked great

Response Number 40

Name: Sam
Date: March 14, 2000 at 05:35:23 Pacific

Reply:

I can't find a way to delete the old addresses that drop down in my internet explorer address bar.
I've tried clearing the history in internet options, setting the keep pages for 0 days, clearing the typedurls in the registry. I've searched the registry for these addresses. I've even tried TweakUI98 - paranoid setttings.

Can anyone tell me how I can get rid of those entries?

Response Number 41

Name: Sam
Date: March 15, 2000 at 04:17:35 Pacific

Reply:

This is in reply to my original question - Reponse #40. My help came from many sources and hopefully this will help someone here.
What happens is that even after you use all the tools that I had mentioned in the previous posting, what's left are the Favorites area bookmarks and the Desktop items. These will be viewed as either inline or drop down autocompletes.
As far as the Favorites bookmarks are concerned, you can use a program like Private Bookmarks to move them out of the Favorites area. Another way is to export them and then delete the entries but this is cumbersome. The result is that these entries will no longer show in autocomplete.
As to the Desktop items, these are an integral part of Windows 98 and cannot be removed. I believe they refer to it as the Windows Desktop Update component. It is also included in IE4 but not included in IE5, although it can be added later. To this end, all one has to do is keep private information off the Desktop area. Copy & paste the address below if you want to know more about the Windows Desktop Update component.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q165/6/95.ASP

Response Number 42

Name: Tera
Date: March 16, 2000 at 18:21:29 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks for all the info. I really needed it and I am thankful for it. So I want to thank each and everyone of you for helping me with this problem.

Response Number 43

Name: Lamekia
Date: March 19, 2000 at 11:52:19 Pacific

Reply:

how can i delete addresses from address bar?

Response Number 44

Name: Lamekia
Date: March 19, 2000 at 11:53:34 Pacific

Reply:

how can i delete addresses from address bar?

Response Number 45

Name: jo
Date: March 23, 2000 at 15:24:18 Pacific

Reply:

God thanks i couln't keep track of all my addresses your a life savor!

Response Number 46

Name: John D.
Date: March 25, 2000 at 16:04:15 Pacific

Reply:

How do I delete in Netscape?

Response Number 47

Name: Bunyan
Date: March 25, 2000 at 19:48:49 Pacific

Reply:

How do I delete a continuous "Porno"
address from my addredss bar? I am
on Microsoft Internet.

Response Number 48

Name: Bunyan
Date: March 25, 2000 at 19:51:58 Pacific

Reply:

How to I delete continuous "porno"
address from my address bar?

Response Number 49

Name: animal
Date: March 25, 2000 at 20:44:12 Pacific

Reply:

I had the damndest time trying to delete my addresses.It took me quite a-while but I finnaly went to my Internet options:(Which mine is under tools, you'res my be under view. But when you find it, go to delete all files from temporary Internet options and go into clear history. Delete all items from history, and then you can select the number of days go to zero, and nothing will stay on your address bar once you've typed it in there. Pretty cool, huh?If you have problems e-mail me and I'll help you. God knows I wish I didn't have to spend so much time figuring it out for myself. Later. Good Luck.

Response Number 50

Name: Sam
Date: March 26, 2000 at 03:06:28 Pacific

Reply:

Reply to Animal - Response #49.
I tried all that you suggested but I still had my Favorite Bookmarks & Desktop items showing up in the address bar autocomplete.
Maybe it works it some cases but it did not for me.
By the way folks, I know that I had forgotten to mention in my previous postings #40 & #41 that you need to clear your Temporary Internet Files in Internet Properties but I figured anyone who has read this far already knew that.
One last note, and this should be obvious as well, if you have opted to store Forms and Passwords be sure to go back into the Internet Properties and under the Content tab look for the Personal Information section, then click the AutoComplete and clear those.

Response Number 51

Name: Sam
Date: March 26, 2000 at 05:27:35 Pacific

Reply:

My last reponse #50 mentioned clearing your Forms and Passwords.
Use this option only if you have deceided that you do not want autocomplete to store this type of information. Make sure you have a list of your passwords stored in a safe place.

Response Number 52

Name: tina smith
Date: March 31, 2000 at 14:46:28 Pacific

Reply:

delete address from address bar

Response Number 53

Name: Karen
Date: April 1, 2000 at 17:58:18 Pacific

Reply:

I need to delete address from the address bar but don't have Internet options or tools bar. What do I do next to delete these. Thanks!!!!

Response Number 54

Name: Stella Scholes
Date: April 2, 2000 at 04:12:00 Pacific

Reply:

I can't seem to make anything work to delete the addresses. I don't like setting it to zero because I want a few on there. Thanks!

Response Number 55

Name: amanush
Date: April 2, 2000 at 11:48:04 Pacific

Reply:

I am working on netscape nevigator. How can i delete the addresses coming on address bar whenever I slide the address bar down? I have cleared the history & set the zero & also cleared all temprory files but then also they appear. How can I delete them now?

Response Number 56

Name: daniel steels
Date: April 4, 2000 at 01:07:22 Pacific

Reply:

i did not find "Internet options" in my view but in tools!
any way it wprked thankyou

Response Number 57

Name: sheena
Date: April 5, 2000 at 19:15:37 Pacific

Reply:

thankx a lot it worked for me now my parents do have to know about any of the things i looked up whether good or bad

Response Number 58

Name: Danielle
Date: April 6, 2000 at 11:57:21 Pacific

Reply:

PLEASE help me delete bad addresses from my address bar! I don't have a "internet options" in my view message.

Response Number 59

Name: c_daddy85
Date: April 12, 2000 at 20:20:23 Pacific

Reply:

I want all of the addresses deleted from the address box.

Response Number 60

Name: Ron Wacholz
Date: April 14, 2000 at 21:36:09 Pacific

Reply:

I cant delete the addresses. I am on Netscape 3.0 HELP!!

Response Number 61

Name: greg almeida
Date: April 15, 2000 at 05:23:19 Pacific

Reply:

Kindly advise how to delete just one or two addresses from the address bar.

Response Number 62

Name: zach
Date: April 15, 2000 at 16:53:27 Pacific

Reply:

my view bar does not have an internet option

Response Number 63

Name: ariel
Date: April 19, 2000 at 16:39:54 Pacific

Reply:

i need help deleting any traces of me from a yahoo account. please help, i don't want a certain person finding my tracks and seeing that i am the person who owns that account.

Response Number 64

Name: Betty
Date: April 23, 2000 at 11:48:51 Pacific

Reply:

I went to tools and deleted everyhthing in history book marked things that I needed thanks for the help

Response Number 65

Name: Dan
Date: April 23, 2000 at 18:39:28 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete from netscape

Response Number 66

Name: the guy
Date: April 24, 2000 at 00:27:57 Pacific

Reply:

for all you people who's internet options is under tools clear history is under the internet temp files on the general tap(page)

Response Number 67

Name: john r
Date: April 24, 2000 at 11:28:16 Pacific

Reply:

i have read all the queries since jan 1999&replys to this problem, but i still do not know how to delete seperate addresses, i do not want to keep deleting the entire address book, can someone please help me before i smash the computer, god bless the problem solver, john, from ireland

Response Number 68

Name: adam
Date: April 27, 2000 at 10:42:30 Pacific

Reply:

there is another way to delete the addresses from the address bar.
1. Go into edit and click on prefrences.
2. Then click on navigator under categories.
3. Next click clear location bar, and bingo there you have it.

Response Number 69

Name: James Bond
Date: April 27, 2000 at 16:26:56 Pacific

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Response Number 70

Name: tony
Date: April 28, 2000 at 11:42:54 Pacific

Reply:

Thankyou Diego for your advice i appreciate it

Response Number 71

Name: Diego
Date: April 28, 2000 at 18:17:37 Pacific

Reply:

THANKS A MILLIONS. I WAS LOOKING FOR HOURS THROUGH WINDOWS EXPLORER. AGAIN THANK YOU.
CHAO,
MERCEDEES

Response Number 72

Name: john_r
Date: April 29, 2000 at 06:23:10 Pacific

Reply:

my god! there's 71 replies here and not one of you have actually gotten to the bottom of this! we all know how to clear the history, but some of us don't want to!! how can it be that not ONE SINGLE PERSON HERE knows what they're doing???????? i know i don't only speak for myself when i say that the problem is merely deleting single addresses (ONE BY ONE!!!) is all lost yet? is there no hope for man and machine??

Response Number 73

Name: joe
Date: April 30, 2000 at 12:38:44 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete one adress from my adress bar?

Response Number 74

Name: joe
Date: April 30, 2000 at 12:44:13 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete one adress from my adress bar?

Response Number 75

Name: Sam
Date: May 5, 2000 at 04:04:37 Pacific

Reply:

I don't know if there is an easier way to delete a single address, but here is one way to do it.
In Internet Explorer, when you click on either the Favorites or History button a frame will appear on the left side of the screen. You can search for the offensive address by running through the folders and subfolders. When your mouse is over a link it will show a pop-up with the URL address of that link.
Another way, if you prefer, is to open your C:\Windows\Favorites and C:\Windows\History folders and then search through them.
If you are unable to locate the address you are looking for, remember to check your Desktop area. Any Shortcut to a Web page that you have placed on the Desktop or any Web Page that has been saved to the Desktop will autocomplete in your Address Bar.

Response Number 76

Name: jhkljahl
Date: May 6, 2000 at 12:28:22 Pacific

Reply:

thanx you so much!

Response Number 77

Name: Titiya
Date: May 7, 2000 at 14:01:08 Pacific

Reply:

Can you help me delete these addresses from the bar?

Response Number 78

Name: Barbara Engle
Date: May 9, 2000 at 09:36:16 Pacific

Reply:

Many old email addresses in my Talksender address book. How do I delete?

Response Number 79

Name: Chris Carson
Date: May 12, 2000 at 17:44:35 Pacific

Reply:

please before 5-13-00.Please

Response Number 80

Name: tabby
Date: May 14, 2000 at 20:31:55 Pacific

Reply:

I want to delete addresses from address bar!!! how do i do it??? I am confused

Response Number 81

Name: steven
Date: May 19, 2000 at 15:01:18 Pacific

Reply:

i went to some sites that i want off my address bar and try everything and the sites will not clear

Response Number 82

Name: Donna
Date: May 19, 2000 at 15:37:59 Pacific

Reply:

Thank you it worked for me also.

Response Number 83

Name: 420allstar
Date: May 25, 2000 at 13:32:28 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks so much the tool bar worked

Response Number 84

Name: john_r
Date: May 26, 2000 at 11:49:38 Pacific

Reply:

i have just received confirmation from Compaq support that there is actually no way of deleting single addresses from the address bar in Internet Explorer.. the only options available are to either leave them all there or delete every one of them in one go. i think it's pretty stupid with all this technology that such an easy task can not be carried out due to carelessness in the design of the software... Bill Gates should have been better prepared!
Bill, with all your money... show you're worth some of it!
John Rogers

Response Number 85

Name: Nobody
Date: May 27, 2000 at 07:24:31 Pacific

Reply:

Reply to John Rogers (Reponse Number 84)
Try using the technique in Reponse Number 75 above. Once your mouse it over the URL you want to get rid of, right click it and chose delete.

Response Number 86

Name: No one
Date: May 27, 2000 at 13:01:36 Pacific

Reply:

Please help me to delete the addreeses frm address bar

Response Number 87

Name: Jena
Date: May 27, 2000 at 15:33:26 Pacific

Reply:

Thanx so much 4 your help!

Response Number 88

Name: tenn_bug
Date: May 28, 2000 at 16:20:22 Pacific

Reply:

selecting "tools" at the top of the screen, then "internet option" and clearing history and setting it to "0"
Worked !!
Thanx Jeeves!!

Response Number 89

Name: parti_5582
Date: June 1, 2000 at 08:37:58 Pacific

Reply:

thanks alot. i had trouble trying to figure it out. you are a lifesaver.it took me hours to try and fix this.
THANKS

Response Number 90

Name: Nikki Jo
Date: June 5, 2000 at 02:53:42 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks for your advice, I managed to delete all the addresses in my address bar by:-
tools>internet options>clear history.
It was also very interesting reading some of those messages, so thanks!
Nikki
-x-

Response Number 91

Name: james
Date: June 5, 2000 at 05:14:11 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete a few addresses from the address bar

Response Number 92

Name: Dallas
Date: June 5, 2000 at 08:49:52 Pacific

Reply:

I have aol it does not have the view button you were talking about. So what do I do? I can seem to find a why to delete my addresses in my address bar. So could you please help me!!!

Response Number 93

Name: jclamp
Date: June 5, 2000 at 13:57:49 Pacific

Reply:

thanks for the information, it worked just like everyone said it would.

Response Number 94

Name: Dallas
Date: June 5, 2000 at 15:39:26 Pacific

Reply:

I need help to delete all the addresses in my address bar. But I can't beacuse I am with AOL and it does not have a view button, or a tool button. I could really use some help here. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

Response Number 95

Name: Richard
Date: June 13, 2000 at 20:46:37 Pacific

Reply:

I think this one's going to run & run....
While surfing I did read somewhere that it can be done through the registry, or by tyoping in by hand 15 new addresses into the address bar. Don't know how this affects the autocomplete feature.

Response Number 96

Name: stacy
Date: June 20, 2000 at 23:08:16 Pacific

Reply:

I need to know how to delete just a few addresses from my address bar. I would be very grateful if somebody could please let me know really really soon.

Response Number 97

Name: jacqueline
Date: June 22, 2000 at 09:28:31 Pacific

Reply:

Every time go to a website the website stays on my address bar. How can I delete it from the address bar. Please answer my question asap! thank you

Response Number 98

Name: catch
Date: June 22, 2000 at 17:04:29 Pacific

Reply:

site 31 response
the response when you start to type an address is called the autocomplete
as far as i am aware its not possible to delete these items
however it is possible to stop them coming into view
go to desktop
right click internet explorer
click properties
click content
click autocomplete
click the tick on web addresses to remove it
click ok
click ok
try it now
otherwise check internet explorer properties for autocomplete.
if i find out how to delete these items ill post it

Response Number 99

Name: antagonist
Date: July 2, 2000 at 23:11:53 Pacific

Reply:

Wow! Thanks Jeeves yo. That crap worked for
me.

Response Number 100

Name: TENECIA
Date: July 4, 2000 at 23:29:04 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete addresses from the address bar?

Response Number 101

Name: mike
Date: July 5, 2000 at 23:18:38 Pacific

Reply:

how can i delete from the address bar on AOL 5.0

Response Number 102

Name: j.baker
Date: July 7, 2000 at 16:16:55 Pacific

Reply:

you saved my life man.maybe i could work for you

Response Number 103

Name: j.baker
Date: July 7, 2000 at 16:20:38 Pacific

Reply:

you saved my life man.maybe i could work for you

Response Number 104

Name: ivan
Date: July 9, 2000 at 01:17:37 Pacific

Reply:

go to my aol
clik preferences
click toolbar
click clear history
check in history box

Response Number 105

Name: Russ Nowlen
Date: July 11, 2000 at 09:56:27 Pacific

Reply:

How do I delete questions to "ask Jeeves".

Response Number 106

Name: hayley
Date: July 11, 2000 at 14:18:37 Pacific

Reply:

I am in Aol and is it that much harder to delete addresses from address bar. I don't have a view button, toolbar, internet options, preferences, clear history, desktop.
So I can't delete my address form address bar. PLEASE HELP IS THERE AWAY IF YOUR IN AOL?

Response Number 107

Name: Hayley
Date: July 13, 2000 at 12:29:40 Pacific

Reply:

Hello again. Can anyone help me delete addresses from address bar. I'm using AOL which isn't as easy. You can just click on Hotmail Inbox up the top in address bar and bring up my hotmail Inbox. Nobody even needs a password. So much for your e-mails being private. If I've been in to check mine it shows up in the address bar and other people can just click on it and go into it. What can I do to stop this. PLEASE HELP. AOL seens to show up every little thing you do. I've used other computers and it just shows up that you went to Hotmail in address bar and you have to still enter your user name, password. AOL has showed up my Hotmail Inbox in address bar why? I only typed in Hotmail at the top, but every little thing I have done after that has showed up in there. I DON'T LIKE IT! CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

Response Number 108

Name: sarah
Date: July 17, 2000 at 22:15:08 Pacific

Reply:

i want to know how to delete addresses from the address bar, please help me as soon as possible
thanx!

Response Number 109

Name: disgusted
Date: July 18, 2000 at 02:46:17 Pacific

Reply:

For users of Internet Explorer, got ot Start Run, type "regedit" without the quotes, then HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs and delete them from there.
This will enable you to delte one, 2, or any number of the addresses from appearing.

Response Number 110

Name: disgusted
Date: July 18, 2000 at 02:49:36 Pacific

Reply:

After typing in "regedit" without the quotes, please hit enter, and do not attempt to type in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs and delete them from there.
In the Run box. Thankyou

Response Number 111

Name: adam
Date: July 21, 2000 at 08:48:17 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete all addresses from address bar?

Response Number 112

Name: adam
Date: July 21, 2000 at 08:50:14 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete all addresses from address bar?

Response Number 113

Name: adam
Date: July 21, 2000 at 08:53:55 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete all addresses from address bar?

Response Number 114

Name: Lester Yalung
Date: July 28, 2000 at 08:53:52 Pacific

Reply:

how to delete addresses from address bar?

Response Number 115

Name: Lester Yalung
Date: July 28, 2000 at 08:56:28 Pacific

Reply:

how to delete addresses from address bar?

Response Number 116

Name: jon
Date: July 28, 2000 at 12:34:15 Pacific

Reply:

on my computer it has no tab button or internet options. or at least i cant find them but how do i get the addresses of my adress bar?

Response Number 117

Name: jon
Date: July 28, 2000 at 12:44:10 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete the url addresses?

Response Number 118

Name: Kamal Muhammad
Date: November 2, 2000 at 15:43:48 Pacific

Reply:

I want to delete addresses from address bar

Response Number 119

Name: litz (by don)
Date: November 20, 2000 at 21:15:37 Pacific

Reply:

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.

Response Number 120

Name: M. Pezzutto
Date: November 22, 2000 at 18:45:46 Pacific

Reply:

For those of you who have tried everything to get rid of those addresses that keep reappearing in the address bar try this - it finally did the job for me. Restart in MS-DOS mode. At the C:\> prompt, type deltree c:\windows\history and then press Enter. Then type deltree c:\windows\tempor~1 and press Enter. (This process can take several minutes depending on how large these .dat files are. The nest time you start IE5 I hope you have the same results I fianlly got - no more addresses!!!

Response Number 121

Name: Sukie
Date: December 5, 2000 at 12:45:36 Pacific

Reply:

How do I delete bad internet site addresses from the address bar?

Response Number 122

Name: barb
Date: December 17, 2000 at 19:03:42 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks for the help.

Response Number 123

Name: bend over
Date: December 18, 2000 at 01:52:08 Pacific

Reply:

how do i delete from netscape navigator
please!!!

Response Number 124

Name: jymahl
Date: December 21, 2000 at 20:01:42 Pacific

Reply:

how do you delete it for netscape navigator

Response Number 125

Name: Alan
Date: December 30, 2000 at 19:15:51 Pacific

Reply:

None of these answers helped. Any other suggestions? If you have any more suggestions, e-mail me at preprules@hotmail.com
Thank you.

Response Number 126

Name: patty
Date: January 1, 2001 at 17:12:37 Pacific

Reply:

Thanks to Deago for your help. I also found in tools you can go to advanced,scroll down to close temporary internet files when broweser is closed and apply, also works.

Response Number 127

Name: Chief
Date: January 11, 2001 at 17:20:43 Pacific

Reply:

Netscape users:
To delete the Addresses from the Bar in 4 & 4.5,
Do a search for "prefs.js" and "liprefs.js" files, these are jave script files which are generated each time you use NS. Open the files in NOTEPAD.exe. Read the warning and delete the single offensive line(s) which looks like "user_pref("browser.url_history.URL_8", "www.yourbusted.net");". **** DO NOT DELETE THE ENTIRE FILE **** Do this to both files. You can use what ever text editor you prefer. Notepad is fine.
Works for me. Should work for you too! Be sure to whack the semicolon at the end of the line.
/Chief

Response Number 128

Name: Cheif #109
Date: January 12, 2001 at 11:46:42 Pacific

Reply:

IE5 users, AOL or Bill Gates Orignal:
Do you want to save your links and pickoff a few bad addresses? Read On.
First READ MESSAGE #100 then come back
You need the History button on the MENU BAR. If it is not visible, You have four (+) options for getting buttons and menus visible to cover your tracks.
* With IE open, Press "CTRL & H" keys. Did it work? No, Next...
* Search through every backdoor until you find the buttons/pulldowns you need to enable these options (explaned in the first 100 messages).
* Open the registry and enable the menu options from inside windows. See MENU#1. below.
* Run a java script HTML file. See HTML#1 Sample file (Copy and paste the text to local drive, save as "yourname.HTML". Open with your browser. It should restore the buttons).
In any case, the best method is to use IE to delete the URL's or naughty links which you no longer wish to see. With 'History' activated, expaned the links under Today, Monday, Thursday, 1 week, bla blah...
Delete the undesired links or base folders. If you are really trying to protect yourself, just purge everything, it is much easier (see prior messages). Close IE.
From the RUN menu type 'regedit' (you need to delete everything you typed or pasted into IE address bar) and navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs] and delete the link that started the whole problem. Close the registry. Open IE. Type in the link www.isawtomuch.... and see if it auto completes. If "www.i" autocompletes to form "www.isawtomuch.com", you missed something. NOTE: Use a link that you typed, Not my example!
This should have cleared the undesirable, and preserved the rest.
If you do not wish to open the registry, perform the following copy & paste the following text] regedit /e c:\temp\explinks.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs"[
(starting with Regedit, ending with double quote into the run command box).
This will export your typed links from the registry to a file in "C:\temp\" called "explinks.reg". Open this file in notepad and edit out the addresses you visisted. Save and exit. Make sure Notepad does not rename it to a ".txt" file.
Double click on the file. It will import itself into the registry overwriting the old data.
You can also paste as text this same string, saving as a batch file (explink.bat). Double click on the batch file. It runs, you edit, you import (doubleclick), you done.
HTML#1 START]
window.open("file:///c:/windows/readme.txt","newwindow","toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,width=640,height=480,left=0,top=0")
history.back();
[HTML#1 END

This is java script. Do not break it down into individual lines or it may error out. Pasting this type of data into this web page will most likely ruin it anyway. So you may want to place it in an editor where you can see the paragraph markers. There should not be any! Just one long line.

Turning on the buttons:
MENU#1
Perform the following:
Paste]regedit /e c:\temp\setup.reg "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"[
(starting with regedit, ending with double quote into the run command box).
This will export your IE setup options from the registry to file "C:\temp\setup.reg". Open this file in notepad and enable "Show_ToolBar"="yes". Save and exit.
Double click on the file. It will import itself into the registry overwriting the old data.
Can you see the History Button? You may need use the pulldown menu: VIEW>EXPLORER BAR>HISTORY to see the History of sites visited and or do CUSTOMIZE and ADD the HISTORY button back if someone has removed it. In either case "CTRL H" should work even if the button can not be seen.

Use this advice at your own risk! I learned by looking and reading on one or two boxes (PC's) this may not work on 2000 or ME, but 95,98, & NT should be OK.
Enough said....
/Chief

Response Number 129

Name: Chief
Date: January 15, 2001 at 20:13:15 Pacific

Reply:

Readers,
Here is a patch to the above message (#109). The upload into this forum, messed up the html code.
The transition stripped the left and right arrows from the HTML code, as well as 'html', 'head' and 'script' at both the begining and the end.
COPY and PASTE, follow text below.
[HTML#1]
*html?*head?*script language="javascript"?window.open("file:///c:/windows/readme.txt","newwindow","toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,width=640,height=480,left=0,top=0")history.back();*/script?*/head?*/html?
[HTML#1]
*** After you paste this into your editor,
REPLACE the '*' with 'leftarrow' character,
REPLACE the '?' with 'rightarrow' character',
or it will do nothing at all! I placed these here in Hopes that it would preserve the text, as it is uploaded into this forum. There are SIX of EACH!
As mentioned, Save as anyname.html and double click on the file name with your browser open.
It will restore your menu buttons.
This is java script. Do not break it down into individual lines or it may error out. You WILL have to place it in an editor where you see the Paragraph Markers. There should not be any! Just one long line. This is common java script. Most every site you visit does the same thing to open a new window. They usually turn off the menus, bars, go, and status bars. It is safe.
Let me know if you need any other pointers.
/Chief

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