how do you clear your history so that when u type in a letter in the search box ur past searches dont show up?
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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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u mean search entries?? if so, click on the button on the right of the pencil to open the menu, and press,"Clear recent searches"
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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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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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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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Remove Search History From IE:\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 \n6. You can uncheck the Forms box to permanently stop the generation of the search history.\n7. Close browser and re-open \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",\nor check "Auto-clear Search History when quitting IE" to clear history when you close your Internet connection.
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Go to Tools > Internet Options, then click on Clear History, then OK.\n\nYou're all set!
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In the Internet options go to content and change the settings on the auto complete and this will allow for your search to be cleared when you clear history. also sites visited it will clear all of that. Just take the check mark off of web adresses you can also clear pass words and such.
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Click Tools >> Internet Options >> Clear History\nThen Click on "Content" tab. Click "Auto Complete", then Click on "Clear Forms"
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Deleting your history and/or cookies will NOT delete your search history, you need to do the following:\n\nTools, internet Options, Content, Autocomplete..\n\nThen clear forms\nand clear passwords if you want.\n\nIf you dont want it to remember the next lot you type in, then Turn It OFF as well.
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Yahoo - Click the toolbar settings pull down arrow then click clear recent searches. ( Pencil icon next to the Y! icon)\nGoogle - click the google pull down arrow then click clear search history.
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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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>This works 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.\n\n>If 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\n>To 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.
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if you have the tool bar, you click the pencil then click "clear search history"
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tools>Internet options>content>auto complete>clear forms \n\nPS what the guy in front of me said would clear the address box but not the search
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Clear search history in Y! toolbar: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/to...\nHowever, if you wish to delete search history saved by the browser and auto-filled when you type on the yahoo website, here is the solution:\n\nTo clear your history from Internet Explorer:\n1. Go to the "Tools" menu.\n2. Select "Internet Options."\n3. Click the "General" tab.\n4. Click the "Clear History" button. To completely disable the history function, set "Days to keep pages in history" to zero.\n\nTo clear your history from Mozilla Firefox:\n1. Go to the "Tools" menu. \n2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History." \n3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0"). \n4. Click "OK" to exit. \n\n\n\nNext\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.\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\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\nAll you recent searches on the toolbar will be cleared.
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if its the old stuff on the yahoo page, just hover over it and hit delete on your keyboard, if its the yahoo toolbar go to clear recent search history