When I clear the history in internet explorer, certain sites refuse to go away. If I open the history folder, they’re gone, but when I type them in, they appear in the address bar’s drop down menu. It’s only certain sites that do it.
I’ve tried deleting temporary internet files, cookies, etc, and nothing has really worked.
any suggestions?
If you right-click the taskbar, choose properties, Start Menu tab, Customise, and hit Clear, that will not only clear the recent documents in your Start menu, but also the links in your IE dropdown address bar.
This is in XP, mind you, I’m not sure about other versions.
I use xp. Tried it. Didn’t work.
Weird. It works for me. Maybe you should turn off auto-complete?
I had that problem with Win2K once and never managed to solve it. The only thing that fixed it was reformatting my hard drive. (Which I didn’t do for that purpose alone!) Even just re-installing the OS (again, I didn’t do it just to clear the erroneous addresses) didn’t clear them.
In Internet Options, click on the Advanced tab, and uncheck the box labelled “Use inline AutoComplete”. That should take care of it - I’m pretty sure the sites are being stored by the autocomplete function and not by the History.
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBD/tip1700/rh1763.htm turned up on a google search for ‘clear cached addresses ie’. Alternatively, you could simply not view pr0n sites on a work/family/public computer :p.