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goldie
Lv 4
goldie asked in Computers & InternetInternet · 1 decade ago

how do i delete search engines and sites ive been to on my tool bar?

its for a surprise, im plannin and my husband is more computer savvy then i, i dont want him to know what im doing

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    ★★ CLEAR HISTORY ★★

    ◙ TIP: IF YOU ARE TRYING TO HIDE YOUR WEB TRAVELS, DELETING YOUR WEB HISTORY WON'T DO YOU ANY GOOD. ANYTHING THAT CAN BE DELETED CAN BE UNDELTED. SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

    ◙ Internet Explorer 6.0 or older versions

    1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+H to open the History Panel. Move your cursor over the one you want and click your right mouse button. When the menu appears click on DELETE.

    2. To clear EVERY history item. Go to TOOLS > INTERNET OPTIONS > GENERAL TAB > CLEAR HISTORY BUTTON

    ◙ Firefox

    1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+H to view the history list. Then choose a chronological or alphabetical hierarchy in the View menu (the default is chronological, from most recent to oldest). Now browse to the domain, date, or page you want to expunge, right-click it, and choose Delete. Click the red X in the top-left corner to close the History pane.

    2. To clear EVERY history item. Go to Tools > Options and click the "Privacy" tab. Click the + next to "History" to expand it. Just hit the "Clear" button.

    3. To delete Firefox's entire record of your browsing activity, choose Tools > Options > Privacy > History > Clear Browsing History Now (this dialog box also lets you set the number of days your history is recorded). Click OK when you're finished. To clear the browser's history of your file downloads, press <Ctrl>-J to open the Downloads window and click Clean Up. Firefox clears the download history automatically if you choose Tools > Options > Privacy > Download History and select either Upon successful download or When Firefox exits in the drop-down menu next to 'Remove files from the Download Manager'.

    ◙ Opera

    1. To clear SINGLE history items. Press CTRL+ALT+H to view the history list. Find a history entry and right click it and choose DELETE.

    2. To erase all entries from the History list, choose Tools > Preferences > Advanced > History, and click Clear next to 'Visited addresses'. To wipe out the browser's download history, press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-T, right-click a downloaded file, and click either Remove transfer or Remove all finished (to clear all completed downloads from the list).

    ◙ Privacy Guard--Very important! Read Everything here.

    http://www.amicutilities.com/privacy-guard/

    ★★ CLEAR HISTORY IN TOOLBARS ★★

    ◙ Yahoo Toolbar

    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-10.h...

    ◙ Google Toolbar

    http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.p...

    ◙ Many software products have HISTORY in them. Read about them here.

    http://www.milincorporated.com/a-delete-history.ht...

    ◙ HOW TO RECOVER DELETED HISTORY IN WINDOWS

    http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Deleted-History-in-...

  • Fremen
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    To to Tools, Internet Options and click on the following buttons, delete cookes, delete files, clear history and that should do the trick for you...

    If your husband happens to work for the NSA or is the super paranoid type you might want to look into a commercial internet track deleter but the steps above you take accidental discovery out of the picture.

  • 1 decade ago

    it takes more than just clearing history

    which is what most people think is the solution

    do the following and you will have no worries

    open your browser

    click tools up top

    click internet options

    click clear history

    change the days to keep history to 0

    click delete files

    now click the content tab

    click auto complete

    click clear forms

    then where it says use autocomplete for uncheck all the things you dont want your browser to store.

    that way you wont have to keep going back and clearing things out. good luck

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You can delete the history of search bar on ur homepage (whatever it is either Yahoo! or Google) by following this path. Tools> internet options> content> auto complete> clear forms. To stop the generation of history uncheck the box of forms.

    You can delete the search history on ur yahoo toolbar this way. click the arrow in the search box. Select options, click clear history. Follow this path also. Pencil> toolbar options> uncheck the boxes of enable auto complete and enable history> ok.

    To delete address bar history, follow this path. Tools> internet options> general > clear history > set the number of days to zero> ok.

    To know more please visit the following links.

    http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/indexing/ind...

    http://search.msn.com.my/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEA...

    http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar/basics/to...

    It will solve your all search related problems.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Look for clear history option

  • 1 decade ago

    tools

    internet options

    general

    clear history

  • 1 decade ago

    agree with ct:)

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