disable search in xp home?
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If you use XP pro, you could set ownership and permissions on folders and barred another users from accessing it.
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You can turn it off if you prefer. In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options. \nClick the Content tab. \nUnder Personal information, click AutoComplete. \nSelect the check boxes for the AutoComplete options you want to use. Uncheck the ones you don't want.
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ANYTHING to do with 'searching the web' or web searching etc etc is spyware. Typical techniques is to hijack your home page, as well as redirect you to their search page whenever you type in an incorrect URL. \n\nI would get rid of it ASAP.\n\nedit: Please visit http://www.hijackthis.de/ .. download the program from the link there and paste, results in the text box, and click ANALYZE. delete all NASTIES.
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It's called AutoComplete. http://malektips.com/internet_explorer_6_0001.html can tell you how to turn it off.
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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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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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On the "My PC" icon, do a right click, and choose "Search".
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Click Tools\n\nUnder Tools, CLick Internet Options\n\nClick The Security Tab And CLick Custom Level\n\nWhere Active X Is, CLick "Disable"\n\n10 points plz :D
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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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manually delete them, search them out with windows search
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No.  That feature is used to protect system files.  If you wanted to disable it you would right-click my computer and uncheck system restore.
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If you don't want to remove them completely, you can usually right-click any empty space on the IExplorer and check off the toolbars/search engines you don't need.\n\nYou can get back to them later on by following the same procedure, only checking them on.
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Hi, if you have yahoo! toolbar then you press on the icon on the left of the search field and at toolbar options...uncheck the "enable recent searches".
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Clear search history in Y! toolbar: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/toolbar/toolbar-10.html
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I am not sure exactly waht "Search For It" is, but try to go to View --> Toolbars --> the deselect it.\n\nYou should also probably run adaware or Spybot, to see if it is spyware.  They can both be downloaded for free at www.pcworld.com
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Goto your control panel and add/remove programs. Find windows desktop search in the list and uninstall it.\n\nThat should do the trick. Windows desktop search is horribly intrusive, and horribly resource intensive as it indexes pretty much constantly.
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Pencil icon --> Clear recent searches