IE Bleg
Can someone tell me why after I clear history, URLs still show up in the address bar?
Update: All better now.
Can someone tell me why after I clear history, URLs still show up in the address bar?
Update: All better now.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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December 30th, 2005 at 10:29 am
You need to also clear your forms and auto complete (i think thats what its called). I usually don’t have that problem since I use Safari on my mac and don’t go to web pages. Anyway its under the same option that allows you to clear passwords, etc.
December 30th, 2005 at 10:38 am
I tried that already. No luck.
December 30th, 2005 at 10:50 am
Why? So when you’ve been going places you shouldn’t have, and your spouse or significant other comes home early, your blood pressure can reach unheard of heights as you panic to remove them. Didn’t you know Bill Gates owns large parts of most drug companies?
December 30th, 2005 at 10:54 am
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q323687 may help.
IN a previous life in Net tech support this method would sooth panicking callers:
Click on Start, then Run.
Type regedit in the box provided.
In Regedit navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs
Then just delete all of the keys that list the URL’s you no longer want to see.
December 30th, 2005 at 11:12 am
Egad. None of that worked. No, not hiding from the wife just purging my work PC on my last day.
December 30th, 2005 at 11:31 am
Tools
Internet Options
Content
Auto Complete
Unclick the little check boxes then click Clear Forms Clear Passwords.
If that doesn’t work, I don’t know. Have you tried to restart the computer?? Might want to do that and then see what happens.
December 30th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Cool. That worked.
December 30th, 2005 at 11:53 am
[insert joke about not using IE here]
December 30th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Try a little program called “Crap Cleaner” at http://www.ccleaner.com.
It works nice for cleaning up IE and Firefox, and a lot of other programs.
I don’t have any connection to the authors/owners of that program, I just like it.
December 31st, 2005 at 3:21 pm
This is late, but my solution to returning a work laptop and making sure that it has no “incriminating” evidence is to completely wipe the hard drive.
There are more than a few security distributions of Linux that run off the CD and have tools to overwrite the hard drive.
Then you can install Linux or one of the BSD’s or even x86 Solaris and watch the IT flunkies freak out… 🙂