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

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The Forms, User names and passwords on forms and Prompt me to save passwords boxes are dim so that I can't put check marks on them. Only the Select Web addresses box is available.

Any suggestions?

Hmmmm. No, not really. My resources are coming up dry on this one. I guess I'll send you over to the Lockergnome forums http://ask-leo.com/d-lockergnomeforums - hit the Windows or Internet sections and see if some of the folks over there have ideas.

Good luck!

Leo

After I delete some links within my favoires they keep coming back after I power my PC down and back up again, as well as my home page keeps changing to a different homepage as well?
Any ideas why this is happening or how I can fix it? I am running IE 6.

Thanks,
Adam

If your homepage keeps getting reset, I'd highly suspect you have some spyware running. Grab a copy of Spybot Search and Destroy, or Ad-Aware, and see if that doesn'r help clean some of this up for you. Links on my recomendations page: http://pugetsoundsoftware.com/recommend.html

Leo

How do I delete my Home pages and keep them from showing up? I have too many of the set and they are all in the Home address bar.

I'm not sure what you mean by "too many" homepages. By definition there is only one, the one you go to when you press the HOME button.

Can you right click on whatever it is you don't like and if you do, do you get either a "customize" menu option, or a "delete" menu option?

Leo

Favorite list of my Win 98 PC gets flooded with unwanted entries of porn site. I have deleted them manually. However they restore themselves after every start/restart of the PC. Please help.

You've almost certainly got some spyware on your machine. Grab and run either Spybot Search and Destroy, or AdAware and they should clean it up.

Good luck,

Leo

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Favorite list of my Win 98 PC gets flooded with unwanted entries of porn site. I have deleted them manually. However they restore themselves after every start/restart of the PC. Please help.

Posted by: Harish Kumar at April 29, 2004 09:33 PM
You've almost certainly got some spyware on your machine. Grab and run either Spybot Search and Destroy, or AdAware and they should clean it up.

Good luck,

Leo

Posted by: Leo at April 29, 2004 09:36 PM

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One of my friends is having the same problem, she got a porn emai land when she clikced the link to be rmeoved fomr there lists, all these porn links appeared in favourites. Now she cant get ird of them, we have tried everything, S & D, AD-AWare, everything, we just cant get rid of them and her dad is going to kill her when he finds out, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!

thansk guys

Do a google search for Hijackthis. It will scan your IE settings and show you all non-standard settings. Ad Aware, etc. never cleaned these up, but Hijackthis always worked.

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