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Subject: deleting subjects already searched so my son cant see them?
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: jm11-ga
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Posted: 12 May 2005 19:40 PDT
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Question ID: 521141
how do i delete the subjects from the search box so my son cant
accidently fall on them?
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Subject: Re: deleting subjects already searched so my son cant see them?
Answered By: politicalguru-ga on 13 May 2005 00:09 PDT
 
Dear JM, 

If you use the Google Toolbar (as in the bar downloaded on
http://toolbar.google.com), it could remember your previous searches
(and it could be prevented from doing so). If you use Internet
Explorer 6.0 as a browser (which most users do), it could also
remember your previous searches.

If this appears on the Google Toolbar
=====================================
If you click the "Google" sign in the far left side of the bar, you
get several drop-down options:
- One is titled "Clear Search History" - hre you could clear the
history, if you want it to continue and save your previous search
history, but to erase those already done.
- One is titled "options". If you click on this one, you have an
option called "Drop Down Search History". If this option is checked,
un-check it. Consequently, future searches you make would not be
saved.


If this appears on the Google search line (as in the line on www.google.com)
=========================================
This could be your option on the Internet Explorer. 

You could remove this function, called "Auto Complete", like that:

(1) Go to Start  --->  "Settings" ----> Control Panel (or: click on
"Tools" on the top of your browser)

(2) Choose Internet Options 

(3) Choose "Content", in the folders beginning with "General" and
ending with "Advanced" (with
Security-privacy-content-connections-programmes in the middle).

(4) Click on "Auto Complete" and remove approvals next to "forms". 

(5) Click OK, then "Apply"/OK. 

[Note: If your computer is not in English, the names might change, but
not the way to remove Auto Complete].

In addition, you could also delete your history, that is - the sites
that you've visited in the past, by doing another process:

(1) Repeat stages 1-2 in the first instructions. 
(2) Choose the folder "General"
(3) Click on "delete cookies" (if you haven't done it for a while, it
might take some time)
(4) Click on "delete files" and approve deletion also of off-line content. 
(5) Click on "clear history" - you could decide how many days you
would like your computer to keep history in the first place.

Marcy Zitz from About.com provides here more information on the "Auto
Complete" feature and how to disable it:
<http://familyinternet.about.com/library/weekly/aa072501a.htm>

I hope this answered your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.
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Subject: Re: deleting subjects already searched so my son cant see them?
From: hady_an-ga on 13 May 2005 00:08 PDT
 
In case you are using Internet Explorer, 
Click on Tools menu, 
click Internet Options, 

In the General Tab, 
in Temporary Internet Files, click on "Delete Cookies", 
and click on "Delete Files", 
and in History, click on "Clear History", 
and choose "Days to keep pages in history" as 0, 

then in the Content Tab, 
click on "AutoComplete", uncheck everything, 
and click on "Clear Forms" and "Clear Passwords", 
then OK. 

Some steps (such as deleting temporary files) aren't required to just
clear your search history, but it's better to delete everything.

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