# Advanced Search on my User Name **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 8, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350 "2008-08-08T23:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/1 "2008-08-08T23:25:33Z")
I recently discovered that if I double click in Advanced Search on the User Name field my old user name **grienspace** shows up on a drop down screen.I then click on grienspace and it pops into the user name field. Since I always use this particular search on my user name to check if any response is required resulting from my previous posting, is their any chance this can be corrected from **grienspace** to **The Flying Dutchman**? I sure would like to avoid typing out my user name each time I go back to the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/2 "2008-08-09T01:07:39Z")
Open advanced search. Open the user name drop down menu. Highlight **grienspace**. Press the delete key on your keyboard. \*\*grienspace \*\* should disappear. Now type in **The Flying Dutchman** and do a search for all posts. That should set \*\*TFD \*\* in the user name drop down menu. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/3 "2008-08-09T01:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Open advanced search. Open the user name drop down menu. Highlight **grienspace**. Press the delete key on your keyboard. \*\*grienspace \*\* should disappear. Now type in **The Flying Dutchman** and do a search for all posts. That should set \*\*TFD \*\* in the user name drop down menu. [/QUOTE] Well I did just what you suggested including the final search, but I have lost the user name drop down menu. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/4 "2008-08-09T01:42:58Z")
It sounds like a browser feature where it recalls what you typed in a particular field and offers that input again to save you time. Otherwise, the user name field in Advanced Search is a plain old text box; it doesn’t have a drop-down menu. What browser and version are you using? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/5 "2008-08-09T01:47:17Z")
In Firefox 3, for example, go to **Tools | Options | Privacy** and uncheck “Remember what I enter in forms and the search bar”. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/6 "2008-08-09T01:51:58Z")
In Internet Explorer 7, go to the Tools menu, and click on Internet Options. Select the Content tab, then select the Auto Complete Setting button. Make sure Forms, and Usernames and Passwords is checked . Click OK. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/7 "2008-08-09T01:52:22Z")
All I know is that I’m using Microsoft Internet Explorer. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advanced-search-on-my-user-name/459350/8 "2008-08-09T01:55:39Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] In Internet Explorer 7, go to the Tools menu, and click on Internet Options. Select the Content tab, then select the Auto Complete Setting button. Make sure Forms, and Usernames and Passwords is checked . Click OK. [/QUOTE] Okay guys thanx, but this is a little too muh for me to handle. I’ll wait till my daughter has a chance to process the advice 🙂