how do I erase all of the things I have searched and keep the search area empty?
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Tools-> internet Options-> Clear History & delete Files.
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if you want to clean the past searches, use the following path on your browser \n\ntools -> internet options -> content -> autocomplete\n\nuse delete or disable autocomplete
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Click on the down arrow and then Options. You will see the Clear Search History. \n\nYou can do the same through the Pencil to the left of the window.
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Click on the search bar and the list of previous seaches comes up. Arrow down and delete each one individually
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Depends on your browser - I user IE6, and in that, you double click in the *empty* search box and a list will appear of your previous searches.  Use your keyboard down arrow and Delete button to remove whichever entries you want.  There is another way, but it involves editing the registry, which I do not recommend for something like this.
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In Yahoo, click the pencil icon, and then click "clear search history"
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just press any letter in the search bar till u see the list of topics u have searched for and then press delete til everything is cleared....
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go to tools, internet options, clear history
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go to internet optiopn in Tools tab in Internet Explorer\n\nGeneral Tab > delete files\n\ndelete cookies\n\nclear history\n\nContent Tab > Auto complete\n\nunmark all marks\n\ndelete forms\n\ndelete passwords\n\nIT IS EMPTY NOW
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Go to start, control panel, internet and network options, delete history. It'll clear every single thing you've ever searched for on the internet.
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Remove Search History From IE:\n1. Open up the Browser\n2. Click Tools at the top of your screen, then Internet Options\n3. Click on the Content tab. \n4. Under Personal information, click on the AutoComplete box. \n5. On the AutoComplete Settings window click the Clear Forms box to delete your current history \n6. You can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.\n7. Close browser and re-open \n\n\nFrom Netscape:\n1. Select Edit -> Preferences.\n2. Open the "Navigator" category and select "History".\n3. Click the "Clear history" and/or "Clear Location history". \n\n\nTo clear searches on Yahoo Toolbar:\n1. Click the pencil icon beside the search box, a menu will drop down\n2. Click "Clear Recent Searches".\n3. If you want to stop saving recent searches, click Toolbar Options and uncheck "Enable Search History",\nor check "Auto-clear Search History when quitting IE" to clear history when you close your Internet connection. \n\n\nTo clear searches on  Google Toolbar\n1. Click on the 'Google' logo to access the drop-down menu.\n2. Select the 'Clear Search History' option. This will clear all the previous searches from the drop-down box.\n\n\nThe following will remove the web site history that you have visited stored on your computer:\n1. Open up the Browser\n2. Click Tools at the top of your screen, then Internet Options\n3. Click "Clear History" "Delete Files" "Delete Cookies"
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click on the pencil icon then click clear recent searches
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go to the top of your browser, click tools, internet options, content, auto complete. clear all files in auto complete. good luck!\n\n\n\nHouston bound that only clears the history!
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1. Open up the Browser\n2. Click Tools at the top of your screen, then Internet Options\n3. Click on the Content tab. \n4. Under Personal information, click on the AutoComplete box. \n5. On the AutoComplete Settings window click the Clear Forms box to delete your current history \n6. You can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.\n7. Close browser and re-open
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If you have Internet Explorer as your browser, you may stop the search history from being generated by following the instructions below: \n\n1. Select the the 'Tools' menu in Internet Explorer. \n2. Select 'Internet Options', then select the 'Content' tab. \n3. Under Personal information, click on the 'AutoComplete' box. \n4. On the AutoComplete Settings window you can click the 'Clear Forms' box to delete your current history, or you can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.
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Well, that depends upon which browser you are using.  The two most popular are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, so I will give explanations for how to clear past search information in both.\n\nIn Internet Explorer, you must click on the "Tools" option at the top of the browser (between "Favorites" and "Help").  A menu will appear.  Click on the "Content" tab at the top of this menu.  In this tab, you will see, under the Personal Information section, a button that says "AutoComplete".  Click on it and uncheck the "Forms" box.  If you want to get rid of AutoComplete for web addresses and user name and password forms, uncheck those too.  You may also want to clear saved data.  You can do that on that menu as well.\n\nFor Firefox, click the Tools option as above (except this time it is between "Bookmarks" and "Help" instead of "Favorites" and "Help").  Go to "Options".  A menu will appear as above.  Then click on the "privacy" button.  After that, click on the "Saved Forms" tab.  Uncheck the "Save information I enter in forms and the Search bar" box and clear saved forms data.
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Some of this stuff you will have to do regularly but This is what I do..If you have Internet Explorer as your browser. \nClick Tools at the top of your screen,a menu will drop down,click on Internet Options, then click on the Content tab. \nUnder Personal information, click on the AutoComplete box. \nOn the AutoComplete Settings window click the Clear Forms box to delete your current history, or you can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.also under "general" click "delete cookies" and "delete files" them "clear history" put days at "0" then click on "settings" click "view files" click on top of page "edit" then click on "select all" then click on file click on "delete" close window makse sure you click on "apply" and "ok"\n\nIf you just want to clear the searches on Yahoo Home Page or any other Yahoo page,double click the search box,this will make a menu drop down with your searches,put your cursor on what you want to delete to highlight it,hit the delete button on your keyboard.If you want to delete everything just hold the delete button down until everything is deleted.\n\nTo clear searches on Yahoo Toolbar,click the pencil icon beside the search box,a menu will drop down,click Clear Recent Searches.If you want to stop saving recent searches,click Toolbar Options and uncheck "Enable Search History",or check "Auto-clear Search History when quitting IE" to clear history when you close your Internet connection. \nTo clear your history from Mozilla Firefox:\n1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History." 3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0"). 4. Click "OK" to exit. \nor Firebox * Either press Ctrl+Shift+Del or Click Tools=>Clear Private Data.\n* To pemanently stop saving data that you entered in search and form fields :\nGoto to Tools=>options=>Privacy=>Saved... uncheck the "Save Information As I enter in Form and Search Fields"\nyour search or form entries will not appear anymore.\n\nGoogle Toolbar :To clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the Google Toolbar:1. Click on the 'Google' logo to access the drop-down menu.\n2. Select the 'Clear Search History' option. This will clear all the previous searches from the drop-down box.\nAll you recent searches on the toolbar will be cleared\n\nTo delete the search tool in the start menu, Go to Start >> Run >> Type in REGEDIT\n\nNavigate to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER &#92; Software &#92; Microsoft&#92;Search Assitant&#92;ACMru\n\nYour actual search list is kept there. Delete the actual text used for your searches, nothing else.