Saturday, December 24, 2011

How do you delete Search History on IE8?

In Internet Explorer 8 at the top right hand corner there is something called a search provider. How do you delete the history from the search provider? Because every time I click the little red 'X' next to the history I want to delete, it still doesn't get deleted. Help?|||If you are using vista click safety at the top of your page. Then click delete browsing history. When the box opens click on the delete history and whatever else you want to delete. Make sure that you click on delete at the bottom of the box also.|||In IE8, click on Tools, select Internet Options, then click on the Contents tab. Once you are there click on the Settings next to "Auto-complete" and delete your history there. Also do an extra history wipe by clicking on "Safety" in IE8 and Delete Browsing History.





Make sure that you select "Form Data".





However, IE8 also takes advantage of Windows Search and Indexing functions. Many users will find that no matter what they do - whether in IE8, using CCleaner or other registry cleaners etc... searches and address bar history will still show up in IE8. The solution is as follows:





After you have done all of the above, go to Control Panel ==%26gt; Indexing Options


Click "Advanced" ==%26gt; click Rebuild.





This will reset your Index - so it will affect your search performance if you rely heavily on this function. Otherwise, it will rebuild your index with the current browsing history (which should be a clean slate)|||You can follow other users advice to delete your current browsing history, but for future reference, you might want to try a cool feature called InPrivate Browsing, that allows you to browse without recording any history at all, so you don't run into this problem again.





Here's a link to help explain it further:


http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windo鈥?/a>





Kyler


IE8 Outreach Team

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