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Drop Down Boxes?!?!?
Name: fredhelfmann Date: October 3, 2005 at 19:15:59 Pacific OS: sadfsadf CPU/Ram: 2321
Comment:
you know how if you goto yahoo or google and u type in your search it will try to help you along by showing previous searches? well how do u stop this to increase privacy? please email and/or post the answer
Name: maadhurimn Date: October 3, 2005 at 19:23:34 Pacific
Reply:
Assuming you have IE Browser in which you have this "problem"
1. Click Tools>Internet Options....> General tab.
2. Scroll down to History Section: Clear Histiory and make the days to keep history to whatever you like by the up/down arrow heads. M
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Response Number 2
Name: Dog Date: October 3, 2005 at 19:26:50 Pacific
Reply:
Use a program called CrapCleaner available here: http://www.ccleaner.com/
Download and install it and tick the 'User Assist History' box. You can set the program to run at start-up or you can have it so that you can right click your recycle bin and run from there.
HTH
D4Dog "beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder"
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Response Number 3
Name: Badboy Date: October 3, 2005 at 19:35:41 Pacific
Reply:
Webroot's Windows Washer does this too. It also uses "bleach" which is where the program writes over the "cleaned" area as many times as you want ... not that you (or I) have anything to hide on our HDDs. After 7 overwrites, even the NSA can't recover what was there. It also erases the existing Index.dat file.
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Response Number 4
Name: Impavidus Date: October 3, 2005 at 19:42:15 Pacific
Reply:
If you have IE:
Tools> Internet Options > Content > Autocomplete > Uncheck FORMS.
┌┤IMPAVIDUS├┐
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever felt responsible. - Voltaire"
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Response Number 5
Name: Pepanee Date: October 3, 2005 at 22:11:56 Pacific
Reply:
the post right above mine is the CORRECT one you're talking about.. it's the Autocomplete feature. Read "Impavidus"s post, (right above mine)
how cant u other ppl understand what he's saying.. jeez. be simple. u'll make life a better place
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Response Number 6
Name: Badboy Date: October 4, 2005 at 05:55:01 Pacific
Reply:
"how do u stop this to increase privacy?"
Pepanee, I took this to mean that Fred Helfmann wanted to increase privacy.
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Summary: Hey, I have a simple question(I think). Well when I go to a search engine/google.com, or anything with a field to fill in information, everytime I type something, a drop down box appears under the fie...
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