how do I delete items from my search box?
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If you mean Yahoo search box, click the arrow next to the pencil icon in your Yahoo Toolbar and click "Clear Recent Searches".  If you mean in Firefox, press CTRL+SHIFT+DEL, and follow the steps there.  If you mean Internet Explorer, clear the history and temporary internet files
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> Internet Explorer, in the menu, click on Tools - Internet Options, a window will open, click on the 'Content' tab. Click on the 'Auto Complete' button.  Another window will pop up, click on 'Clear Forms'.  This will clear all info saved in edit boxes etc including the search bar.
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1) Click on the pencil icon to the left of the search box\n2) Select Toolbar Options (first item on the menu).\n3) Clear "Enable Search History"\n4) Click OK
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Very easy!\n\n1.  Highlight the search with your mouse.\n\n2.  Hit the delete key on your keyboard.
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If you're using the yahoo toolbar, click on the little pencil. On the dropdown menu, click Clear Search History.
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There is an icon with a pencil image next to the search box, click it. There you will see an option for Clear Recent Searches.
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from the toolbar or www.yahoo.com?\n\ntoolbar: click the pencil and go to clear search history\n\nyahoo.com: you have to clear your autocomplete.. in internet explorer go to tools>internet options, content tab, autocomplete button, clear forms button
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Yahoo toolbar... click on the search box black arrow and select 'options' to delete. \nE
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If you just want to clear the searches on Yahoo, 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 prevent it from happening again:\n\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, or you can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.\n\n\nTo clear searches on Yahoo Toolbar:\n\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", or 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.
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If you mean IE, and things you typed in Yahoo! (or other) search engine fields...\n\nTools>Internet Options>Content>Auto Complete>Clear Forms button. You can also delete individual entries by highlighting them in the list in question and pressing the delete key.  You can also uncheck "forms" so the searches are never saved again.
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Go into the blank box, press the down key, highlight a search and then hit the delete key.  I think that's what you were asking :)
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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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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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This is an auto-complete option in Explorer.\n\nTo delete, select Tools - Internet Options - Content - Autocomplete\n\nUncheck the boxes you want to delete and they will go away and not come back.\n\nYou can also delete browsing history by selecting Tools - Internet Options - General ( Browsing History ) - Delete.\n\nThis will give you a number of privacy options you can delete.
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Hello,\n\nThere are several ways.  You can just click inside the search box, push the down arrow so it will highlight the search term, then hit delete.  There are also some commerical programs that do stuff like that.  You might want to try adaware or spybot for free... www.pcworld.com  or you can buy spysweeper which is a great program www.webroot.com
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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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Open browser IE(select->Tools->Internet Options)\n==>select General tab(Delete Cookies,Files,Clear\nHistory)\n==>Contents Tab(clear SSL state,clear auto complete\n[forms & password])\n==>Programs tab (Reset Web settings) \n\n\nIn Yahoo Toolbar :\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 :\nTo clear your search history from the drop-down text box on the 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\nIf you mean in browsers like IE, Firebox :\n\nIn 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.