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How Do I Get My Computer To Stop Remembering Things I've Typed In?

For example: When I go to google.com the dialogue box used to type things in, and I click to get the cursor there, a list of searches I've already made turn up there! And this happens at ALL sites, which is annoying sometimes...

Ther's got to be a way to stop recording this crap.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Here is what you do:

    Go to Internet options in the control panel

    click on Content tab and select "Settings" button for Autocomplete then make sure the check mark is unchecked for "forms"

    hope that helps

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This will change depending on what Web Browser you have. On Firefox you go to Tools - Options - Click on the Privacy Tab. Then you uncheck the settings to remember what you have entered and also visited sites.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    if u click on the history tab and delete everything on there by right clicking on the day or week and click delete it will delete all the recorded websites. sometime if u type in the beggining of one suggestions may come up but a lot of the time it doesnt.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    go to tools> internet options>content then on personal information click on auto complete if you have the web pages forms and user names and passwords on forms checked, remove the check mark. Also click on clear forms and clear passwords so you can start all over again

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Gracie...I hate to rain on your parade, yet how did you get carpal tunnel syndrome to start with? If it replaced into typing, do no longer you think of you will desire to take it undemanding (till of course they have pronounced basically the style of exercising at your physio?)? As to the bronchitis...something that places moisture into the air is physically powerful to your lungs at this factor. i could set up a humidifier interior the nook of the room the place your computing device is, and then get your self one in each of those small Benadryl plug ins. they actually do soothe the throat and lungs. My youngest daughter suffers from continual bronchitis and she or he has a number of people who she makes use of while she is depressing with congestion. As to the pills, they have on a daily basis dispensers on the marketplace at drug shops that has six or 8 distinctive booths. the assumption is to prefill it for the day (you may get ones for each week besides) and then take the pills as that factor arrives. it is likewise reliable in case you do no longer bear in mind in case you have already taken that tablet or no longer--as a results of fact if the tablet continues to be there, then you truly did no longer. no count if it is long gone, then you truly did. lots much less stressful on "purple fog" memories... have you ever a pal that lives interior sight? would desire to you no longer ask her that can assist you you to shampoo? i recognize that i think definitely depressing till i can get sparkling. If that isn't possible, how approximately treating your self to a shampoo and set at your prevalent hair salon? You deserve the indulgence.

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