How do I clear Yahoo search of old searches?

Can someone please tell me how to clear all the past searches in the Yahoo search box? Thank-You.?

  • Not ...tools, Internet options, Clear history. The search window in Yahoo or Google etc.

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    If you are talking about the yahoo toolbar: click the pencil and go to clear search history! TO Delete recent searches from popping up in the drop down menu on a search page. Go to the search site site, click where you would type then push the down arrow on your keyboard. As you move your pointer over a word it is highlighted, Highlight the word in the list then hold down the delete key on your keyboard. To turn this feature off in yahoo tool bar: Click the pencil icon go to toolbar options/ under Search box uncheck the first 2. To turn this feature off Open an IE page go to tools at the top/ Internet options click the content tab/ then click the auto complete button/ uncheck every thing there Be sure to come back and vote for the best answer!

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THE ONLY WAY TO CLEAR YOUR SEARCH HISTORY IS INTERNET OPTIONS. If you are using Yahoo! toolbar do the steps below. Why not Internet options? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [?] However, if you wish to delete search history saved by the browser and auto-filled when you type on the yahoo website, here is the solution: To clear your history from Internet Explorer: 1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Internet Options." 3. Click the "General" tab. 4. Click the "Clear History" button. To completely disable the history function, set "Days to keep pages in history" to zero. To turn off this feature: > Open an Internet Explorer page > Go to tools > Click on Internet options > Click the content tab > Then click the auto complete button, make sure you uncheck every thing in there. To clear your history from Mozilla Firefox: 1. Go to the "Tools" menu. 2. Select "Options" > "Privacy" > "History." 3. Click on "Clear." To completely disable the history function, set "Remember visited pages for the last X days" to zero ("0"). 4. Click "OK" to exit. This will resolve it all :) *********** These steps are if you have Yahoo! Toolbar: If you want to remove all the entries in your search history right now, but you still want Yahoo! Toolbar to remember your searches in the future, do the following: 1. Click the Pencil menu. 2. Select "Clear Recent Searches". If you want to save your recent searches while you're searching on the Web, but automatically clear the saved searches when you close your browser window, do the following: 1. Click the Pencil menu. 2. Select "Toolbar Options". 3. Select "Auto-clear recent searches when exiting IE" so there's a checkmark in the box next to it. 4. Click "OK". If you want to disable the feature entirely so none of your searches are saved, do the following: 1. Click the Pencil menu. 2. Select "Toolbar Options". 3. Click "Remember Recent Searches" so there's not a checkmark in the box next to it. 4. Click "OK" :)

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click on tools then internet options then content then auto complete click on clear forms.

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You can delete the history of search bar on ur homepage (whatever it is either Yahoo! or Google) by following this path. Tools> internet options> content> auto complete> clear forms. To stop the generation of history uncheck the box of forms. You can delete the search history on ur yahoo toolbar this way. click the arrow in the search box. Select options, click clear history. Follow this path also. Pencil> toolbar options> uncheck the boxes of enable auto complete and enable history> ok. To delete address bar history, follow this path. Tools> internet options> general > clear history > set the number of days to zero> ok. To know more please visit the following links. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/indexing/indexing-13.html http://search.msn.com.my/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_RemoveSite.htm http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/toolbar/basics/toolbar-10.html It will solve your all search related problems.

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