You know when you use google and stuff? HELP!

[colditz]

It comes up with a list of everything I have ever typed into google. I am not the only person who uses this computer - sometimes the neighbours and my sister use it. I don't want them to know what I do!

How can I wipe this info out?

is it google toolbar?

have you cleared the history?

Internet Exlporer: click in theempty google box and kind of hover the mouse over the first item int he list. Whenit's blue, hit delete and hold it down - the whole list will delete one by one,quickly.

With Firefox it's shift + Delete.

Do you mean when you click in the search bar and a list appears underneath?

If so you can move your mouse down over it to select (or highlight) each search term and simply delete.

There may be a way in Internet options as well - I'll investigate...

Wow thanks! Didn't even notice there was a clear history option[technophobe]

There's an option to clear something to do with forms IIRC. Properties, Content, Personal Inf, Autocomplete....

This page shows various ways to get rid of history/autocomplete in the google toolbar as well as the main Google page (at the bottom of the page)and the address bar.

IIRC,clearing your history won't get rid of the stuff int he Google search bar.

on the google home page at the top right of the screen there are some options. is one of them igoogle?

oh ta soupdragon didn't know you could do that. (why was i googling potato remedies?)

so what about that bar where i type in addresses of websites?

The address bar should be cleared when you clear the history. I have my internet options set to clear the history after 0 days so it disappears whenever I close IE/Firefox.

read this

I delete google searches by just highlighting each one right clicking and delete. Is a pain if there's loads there but I do it every few days or so, so it's not too bad.

sorted. rthankyou

Boredveryverybored, you don't need to do the right clicking nonsense. Look at my instructions further down - get the top one highlighted, hold down delete and they're all gone inseconds.