how do i clear the auto complete

[wakubi]

We had a user downloading hard porn at work. Hes since been removed. The problem now is how to remove the auto completion of all his searchs.

Im not talking about the auto complete in the address bar at the top of IE, as we all know this can be turned off in Internet options > Advanced. Its also not the cookies as i deleted everything in the temporay internet files to no avail.

The problem is the drop down arrow which appears when you type anything into any text box on an html page: such as doing a search in google. This brings up a long long list of dodgy seedy searches.
I need to prepare the PC for his replacement and I do not want them to either be offended or tempted!

The PC is windows 98 se. with IE 5.5 sp2

What Ive tried so far is:
deleting cookies.
looked in IE tools.
Ive removed IE 5.5 back to IE 4 and then reinstalled it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Julian K
Network Admin
MCSE

 

[Luckyfour]

I don't know if this program would help. I don't have it but read about it on a forum:

http://12ghosts.com/ghosts/wash.htm

 

[RachelD]

Turn off the "inline Auto-Complete for Web Addresses" - not sure but I think this will turn off all auto-complete when you're in the browser.

Tools | Internet Options | Browsing - it's near the bottom of the browsing options.

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks,
ill give it a go...

Does anyone know, Can I just delete the information in the index.dat, or will this effect other things?

Julian K

 

[tedlaj]

1. Click: Start>Run
2. Type in: Regedit
3. Go to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs
4. In the right pane select all but "(Default)" and delete

 

[smitee]

wakubi

This thread may have some ideas for you:

thread608-19438