TURNING OFF (WINDOWS COMPLETES WORD TYPED)

[llambert2]

Windows 2000/xp comes up and asks if you want windows to complete the word you have typed... So for instance if I was doing a search in YAHOO ... and typed "a" it would then drop down everything I have searched starting with "a". How do I turn this off? I'm guessing it must be a registry setting. But I know I don't want to be in the registry "guessing". One of my users wants to turn this off at home and he is using XP. I'd like to know how just to know how, on XP or anything else for that matter. I use win 2000 myself.
Len

 

[ReddLefty]

Well, that's usually your history.

Try going into Tool, Internet Options in your Internet Explorer and in the General Tab, go to the section that says History. Change the number to Zero "0" in the Days to keep Pages in History and press on the Clear History button.

From there on, your IE won't remember your visited web pages, so it should not try to resolve them when you type them since the list will always be blank.



"In space, nobody can hear you click..."

 

[llambert2]

Thanks but I already tried that ... and cleared temp internet files cookies, etc. That's why I suggested it must be a registry issue. This seems to be a windows issues ...where windows gives you everything you have already typed into that line in alpabetical order. It also saves your passwords etc. In this case the actual problem is that a user typed a password into the wrong place. So they want to get rid of it. If you start the password (first letter) it gives you a list of everything you have typed there in alphatical order starting with that letter. He needs to turn that off to get rid of the password (which is showing on the wrong line...OK so he was asleep when he typed it in)

 

[zelko961]

Open ie-window,click tools,internet options,content,auto complet than uncheck web adresses.

 

[rwherr]

That's actually of function of "Autocomplete".

To clear it and disable it, in IE go to Tools, Internet Options, click on the Content tab. Towards the bottom you will see Personal Information and the Autocomplete button. Click Clear Forms and Clear Passwords then remove the checks from Use AutoComplete for Web Addresses and Forms

 

[llambert2]

Thanks ... that solved the issue ... I had looked at IE, tools, internet options but neglected to look far enough and didn't go into content or I might have seen it (or not) . But that did fix it.
Again thanks