How do I delete items from Internet Explorer's auto-complete list?

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Well I'd like this article, but IE' autocomplete feature can not delete your items that you selected. Sometimes I'd like to open and login into website with single one click. Fortunately I found IntelliLogin tool did do all things for me such as deleted items your selected and one single click sign on etc.
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The answer is NOT just in unchecking autocomplete, removing the site from favorites, history, even removing the site name from "typed entries" in the registry.
The answer was actually located in Leo's link to the Microsoft page. I had been working on this for 2 days and had even been to other Microsoft pages.

It's:
TOOLS/INTERNET OPTIONS/ADVANCED

Unclick:
"Use inline AutoComplete for Web addresses"

FINALLY, THE ANSWER!!!

THANK YOU!!

Cindy

All your problems will be solved with the program History Killer.
http://en.emergency-soft.com/category/historykiller
Supports for Internet Explorer, Firefox Mozilla, Netscape, Opera and Flock web browsers
Removes cache, cookies, internet history, last visited pages, ActiveX controls, autocomplete forms, locked index.dat files and more...

Oooo yeah History Killer is fantastik

http://www.spychecker.com/program/historyeraser.html

This worked for me, seems to be trustworthy also. I scanned with Ad-Aware and it came out fine.

when going onto google i have a drop down box and it has all the previous sites i have visited but do not want them there, how do i delete it?

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***when going onto google i have a drop down box and it has all the previous sites i have visited but do not want them there, how do i delete it?
Posted by: Jon at May 16, 2007 01:54 PM***

Check this ! Very simple

http://familyinternet.about.com/cs/ienetscapehelp/a/autocomplete4.htm

So, in order to clear or the history of the address bar in IE only without deleting your IE History folder follow these steps:

Start Registry Editor (Regedit.exe).

Note: As always, before making changes to your registry you should always make sure you have a valid backup. In cases where you're supposed to delete or modify keys or values from the registry it is possible to first export that key or value(s) to a .REG file before performing the changes.

Locate the following key in the registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs

Delete all the URLx (e.g. URL1, URL2 and so on) that you do not wish to be visible in the address bar drop down list.

Note: If you delete only certain keys, make sure that the remaining keys are in renamed in sequential order start from url1. Otherwise you might corrupte your remaining keys.

Hi, I don't think this was told but to remove all web adresses(google, and yahoo still there) from the adresses bar go on Tools/internet options/Clear history.
Hope this helps,
Sincerely,
Rocco

Individual items can be deleted from the address bar by clicking the History button and deleting the item appearing in the History list.

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