Everything I type to search for is saved, how do I erase it and keep it from saving?  It never did this before
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If you are referring to Windows search option you can use a software called Easycleaner.
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To clear your search history and prevent it from being saved in the future follow these steps:\n\nIf you use Internet Explorer, click the "Tools" link at the top of the window then select "Internet Options". Click on "Content" tab at top. Under "Personal Information" on the bottom half of the window click "Auto Complete". Uncheck "Web Addresses", "Forms" and "User Names & Passwords on Forms". That prevents the Search History from being kept. To erase what's already there then below that click the "Clear Forms" and "Clear Passwords" buttons. Then click on "OK", click "Apply" and click "OK" again to close the window and save your settings.\n\nIf you are using Firefox, click "Tools", then "Options" then "Privacy" then "Saved Forms". Click "Clear Saved Forms" to erase the saved data then uncheck the box in front of "Save information I enter....." Click "OK" to close the window and save your settings.\n\nIf you wish to delete recent searches from the Yahoo! Search box on the Yahoo! Toolbar, click the pencil icon to the left of the Search Box then click "Clear Recent Searches". More details and options regarding Search History on Toolbar are available at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-10.html
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In Internet Explorer\n\n* Go to menu, tools =>Internet options => content.\nClick AutoComplete in the bottom. In the resulting window click clear forms.\n\n* To permanently stop saving the search and form field entries, goto Tools=>Internet Options=>Content=>AutoComplete uncheck all the boxes and click ok.\n\nIn Firebox\n\n* Either press Ctrl+Shift+Del or Click Tools=>Clear Private Data.\n\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"\n\nyour search or form entries will not appear anymore.\n\nTo clear the yahoo Search Tool bar :\n\nIn the left side of your search toolbar (yahoo) you can find a pencil icon. Click on that pencil icon and select "Clear Recent Seraches".\n\nAll you recent search on the toolbar will be cleared.
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You have to go into the control panel, Internet Settings, and clear history, and clear auto complete settings. That should clear out everything that would populate the search edit box when you start typing.\n\nYou could also set him up on his own account in Windows and then you don't have to worry about it.
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In Internet Explorer\n\n* Go to menu, tools =>Internet options => content.\nClick AutoComplete in the bottom. In the resulting window click clear forms.\n\n* To permanently stop saving the search and form field entries goto Tools=>Internet Options=>Content=>AutoComplete uncheck all the boxes and click ok.\n\nIn Firebox\n\n* Either press Ctrl+Shift+Del or Click Tools=>Clear Private Data.\n\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"\n\nyour search or form entries will not appear anymore.\n\n\nIn Yahoo Toolbar :\n\nIn the left side of your search toolbar (yahoo) you can find a pencil icon. Click on that pencil icon and select "Clear Recent Seraches".\n\nIn Google Toolbar :\n\nTo clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the Google Toolbar:\n\n   1. Click on the 'Google' logo to access the drop-down menu.\n   2. Select the 'Clear Search History' option. This will clear all the previous searches from the drop-down box.\n\nAll you recent searches on the toolbar will be cleared.
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In Internet Explorer\n\n* Go to menu, tools =>Internet options => content.\nClick AutoComplete in the bottom. In the resulting   window click clear forms.\n\n* To permanently stop saving the search and form field entries goto Tools=>Internet Options=>Content=>AutoComplete uncheck all the boxes and click ok.\n\nIn Firebox\n\n* Either press Ctrl+Shift+Del or Click Tools=>Clear Private Data. In the resulting dialog you can select  the various options to clear.\n\n* To pemanently stop saving data that you entered in search and form fields :\nGoto to Tools=>options=>Privacy=>SavedForms=> uncheck the "Save Information As I enter in Form and Search Fields"\n\nyour search or form entries will not appear anymore.
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press delete on the keyboard \nmove the pointer of youre mouse and press delete they will all go.\ngo to google or whatever and just click in the place where you search and everything will come up and delete easy as pie
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Just highlight the search that you want to delete. (don't click on it) Then, click the delete button.....the highlighted seach will be gone. Do that for each search that you want to lose.
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I'm using the Firefox edition which I don't think allows you to stop it from remembering, but the Internet Explorer edition might. Go to the little pencil icon and then click on "Toolbar Options." That may offer an option to not remember searches.
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If you are using Internet Explorer:\n\n1. Go to Tools - Internet Options\n2. In the "General" tab.  Click on the "Clear History" button.  Also set this 0 days to keep pages in history.\n3. Click on Delete Cookies button (deletes cookies in cache)\n4. Click on the Delete Files button (this deletes the html pages and images you download that Internet Explorer saves when you visit a page.) \n5. Go to the "Content" tab and click "AutoComplete"\n6. Uncheck "Web Addresses", "Forms" and "User Names and Passwords on Forms".\n7. Click on "Clear Forms" & "Clear Passwords"\n8. Click in the "Advanced" tab.\n9. Go to the Security section and check "Empty Temporary Internet Files Folder When Browser is Closed" (This essentially does steps 3 and 4 when you close your browser)\n\nThe above steps will prevent you from having to clean up afterwards.  I believe future versions of IE will have a one-button-do-the-whole-job thing.\n\nNow if you have Yahoo Toolbar with Internet Explorer:\n\n1. There is a pencil looking button to the left of the search box.  Click it.  \n2. Select Clear Recent Searches.  \n\nYahoo Toolbar should automatically clear this out when you close the browser but if you want it not to save recent recent searches, Click pencil button - "Toolbar Options" - Uncheck "Remember Recent Searches".
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Click the pencil icon , then click "Clear resent searches"
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goto "tools", -> internet options, -> content, -> autocomplete. clear all the forms and also clear your History too.
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It depends on which browser you use:\nFirefox: Tools > Options > Privacy > Saved Forms > uncheck "remember forms"\nInternet Explorer: not sure, probably should be an option under Tools. \n\nAlso, you can delete individual search items by holding down Shift while hitting delete.  \n\nHope this helps!  Good luck!
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Yahoo! Toolbar will remember your recent searches so that you can easily find the things you searched for previously. However, there are several ways you can clear the search history in the toolbar. \n\nIf you want to remove all the entries in your search history right now, but you still want Yahoo! Toolbar to remember your searches in the future, do the following: \n\nClick on the Pencil menu \nSelect "Clear Recent Searches" \nIf you want to save your recent searches while you're searching on the web, but to automatically clear the saved searches when you close your browser window, do the following: \n\nClick on the Pencil menu \nSelect "Toolbar Options" \nSelect "Auto clear recent searches when exiting IE" so that there is a checkmark in the box next to it. \nClick "OK" \nIf you want to disable the feature entirely so none of your searches are saved, do the following: \n\nClick on the Pencil menu \nSelect "Toolbar Options" \nClick "Remember Recent Searches" so that there is not a checkmark in the box next to it \nClick "OK" \nNote: Yahoo! Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox currently does not have the ability to disable the search history or automatically clear it on exit. Those features will be added in a future release. \n\nIf you have disabled the search history in Yahoo! Toolbar but are still seeing items suggested when you type, your browser is saving that information. For Internet Explorer, check your options under Tools>Internet Options>AutoFill. For Mozilla Firefox, check Tools>Options>Privacy>Saved Form Information.
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tools>internet options>'content' tab>Auto Complete>clear forms\n\nAlso, uncheck the boxes, and it won't save the history anymore.
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Dude, it's NOT the "Clear History" button you want.  Read ALL the steps below CAREFULLY this time...\n\nIf 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.\n\nOn 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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In IE explorer, click tools, internet options, click the content tab, then autocomplete.  you can clear everything there, and deselect the options where it won't save what you typed in the search area of yahoo.