Can you edit the 'autocomplete' file?

Or whatever it should be called correctly. You know, you’re filling out a form and after you enter a letter or two a box with suggested answers comes up?

Well, over time, do to finger fumbleness, my most commonly used suggestions include all sorts of stupid typo’ed versions of my name, email address and so forth. I assume these ‘answers’ live in a file somewhere – can I find it and just delete the bad answers?

If not, can I find the file and delete it, period? I’d rather start afresh than look at all my stupid typoes each time.
(WinXP home, btw.)

That is most likely a feature of your Web browser, if you’re using MS Internet Explorer.

Here are the relevant instructions from the IE help file:

Aha, I should have guessed it was in IE…
Thanks for the help, Boyo Jim.

If you only want to delete specific ones, double click the field to bring up your available choices. Arrow-down to the option you want to delete, and press the “Delete” button. One way of cleaning up the typos.

“Heh-heh, yeah, honey! It’s the craziest thing… I was searching for your cousin’s LiveJournal and accidentally googled for ‘Jenna Jameson bent over a leather sofa’ – what are the odds?” :smiley: