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Sometimes you just want to clear what you've searched for from the browser's history. These steps clear that information in Internet Explorer 7.
OK, you've show how to do it for Internet Explorer 6 and for FireFox - how about those of us on IE 7? How do we clear the search history?
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The good news is that it's apparently very similar to IE 6.
But naturally the names and locations of some items have changed.
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In Internet Explorer 7, hit the Tools menu, Internet Options menu item, and you should see something like this:
Underneath Browsing History, click on Delete and you'll get this:
Obviously there are many things you can delete here. If you're looking specifically to clear the searches that you've entered into the Google home page, then click on Delete Forms...:
Hit Yes and you're done.
Note that this will clear auto-complete entries from all web forms, not just the Google homepage.
And there are still several other places in Windows that remember things for you - I'll refer you to that previous article: How do I delete history items from my Google tool bar? for more of those.
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July 5, 2008 4:52 AM
In addition to the above, you may also want to run msconfig to see if you have NmBgMonitor.exe or NMFirstStart.exe in the startup list. If so you may want to disable them to prevent Scout from running automatically.
If this fix works for you, but you find the problem arising again, bring up task manager via Ctrl-Alt-Del and look for a process titled NMIndexsvr.exe or similar. That's Scout running in the background. End Process to kill it.
Happy Hunting
January 4, 2009 5:53 AM
Why is my history for previous days not there when i start my computer? I have internet explorer 7 and running windows XP. I also have norton antivirus running. Thanks
January 20, 2009 1:24 PM
YES the hanging issue is solved: Nero was the problem Thanks for the shared information.
March 19, 2009 4:55 AM
Is there a way to recover Internet Explorer History files? Mine seem to have gotten corrupted a a certain point & those weeks prior to that date will not open... Using IE7, Vista Ultimate.
January 5, 2010 9:09 PM
You know this is good, but there's a lot more history that is saved on your system. If you download and run privacy software, (free to scan) it pulls up everything stored.
Be warned, if you try it, it may be quite disturbing.
Here's a link to a an article on the the best tested privacy software