I use mac os9.1 with Internet Explorer 5.0 When typing in the address
bar a predictive list appears below including addresses I am positive
I have never visited. Is there any way to erase these eroneous
predictions.Or stop them being displayed.

I am using a slightly different version of Internet Explorer on my
Mac, but hopefully this solution will also work for you:

1) Open up Internet Explorer.
2) At the top, click on Explorer and click Preferences.
3) Remove the checkmark from "Use Address AutoComplete"
4) On the left side, click on "Forms AutoComplete"
5) Click on Disabled.
6) On the left side, click on "Advanced"
7) Click on "Clear History"
8) This should solve the problem for you. If you need any
clarifications, please let me know and I will do my best to further
assist you.

tisme-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by kemlo-ga on 04 Mar 2003 20:39 PST

Tisme 
 No, this cannot be done on my version, the controls are different.
I have  "Forms Auto fill" then "Forms Autocompleat"  then the
"Enabled"    "Disabled"  then it goes differently.

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Clarification of Answer by tisme-ga on 04 Mar 2003 21:51 PST

When you click on Explorer -> Preferences, do you see something on the
left side that says "Browser Display"?
This is where the "Use Address Autocomplete" option is.

My research so far suggests that your version does NOT have this
option. If this is an urgent problem, I suggests that you install the
latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer available for OS 9.1
which is 5.1.6.

You can get it for free here:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/DOWNLOAD/IE/ie5_classic.asp

After installing this, there should be an option to the left of the
"Preferences" menu that says "Browser Display", and here you will want
to uncheck Use Address AutoComplete.

Were you able to find "Clear History" anywhere?

Let me know how this goes,

tisme-ga

and then reinstall the product from here:

Tisme
I loaded the upgrade and then followed your instructions. It works, 
Please accept this tip for your effort.  Thank you very much,
Regards  Kemlo

This is kind of a side note, but there is no such thing as an
"eroneous
prediction". Everything that comes up there has been typed in, at some
time or other. Lots of cheating spouses and curious kids have been
caught by the same auto-complete feature. It doesn't go away when you
clear the history. You have to go through the steps mentioned in the
answer to clear those. In fact, if you go to Google.com and just
double-click on the space that you input your search query, a listing
of items searched for will generally come up. Some people are
surprised what they find, but it never lies...

Many of these addresses can come from banner ads that are displayed on
non related sites, thus you may have never visited the actual site,
only one displaying a banner for the offensive site.