You know IE auto-completes the url you are typing in the address bar?

It gets the info from your IE history and favorites.

Now, if you delete your history and remove the url from your favorites it doesn't auto-complete the url for you.

Well, for some reason, some of them still auto-complete.

Where is it pulling the url's from, or should I say... how can I delete them?

I know you can disable auto-blah but that's not what I want to do.

This is real easy, I can tell you:

1) Click "Tools" then go to Internet Options

2) Click the tab that says "Content"

3) Click "Clear URL" "Clear Passwords"

4) uncheck 3 boxes


Restart ur browser and you are all set :D

Thanks, but...

that still does not get rid of the old entries permanently.

If you keep the boxes unchecked you're okay, but as soon as you enable it, the old entries come back.

There must be some way to permanently get rid of them?

try this:

1) check all 3 boxes then clear the password/url button

2) restart ur PC

3) surf few sites

4) uncheck the boxes

5) clear them again

6) go to the internet options main screen, click that says "temporary internet files", click on delete files and check that says "delete ofline content", delete it then go back to the main screen and click "clear history"

7) restart PC

u should be better

/me hates auto-complete

It can get you into sticky situations when your PC is being used by other people - which is why its turned off on ALL my windows boxes ;)

This appears to be a bug in some versions of I.E. Try upgrading to the latest I.E. ... which I believe is 6.0. Did the job for me.

josephp, thanks I'll give that a bash later on today.

archangel777, I am using IE6. Upgraded about 2 to 3 weeks ago.

Maybe I should un-install IE all together and start from scratch, BUT I'm wondering if that will also un-install Outlook. I can't have that now...

If you want to totally disable IE Auto-complete, go to Tools>>Internet Options>>Advanced and uncheck "Use inline Auto-Complete" :D

josephp, nope, didn't solve my prob :bawling:

make sure that the URL's its not auto completing are not in your favourites, it will always auto complete those no matter what you clear.

if you are looking for a major cleanup then you might want to use TweakUI i think you can get it from www.tweaktown.com

Guess we have to flame agansit Mircosoft, eh? :D