Getting rid of drop down box on Google

sorry that this isnt to do with this site but I just wondered how I could get rid of the drop down box when I search for things on Google, I use it as my main research tool for my art, projects etc and everytime I press one letter a huge list of past things searched for comes down and its a pain in the rear, ive tried deleting temp net files, cookies etc but they are still there! any ideas?

thanks🙂

Originally posted by expressiveoutburst
sorry that this isnt to do with this site but I just wondered how I could get rid of the drop down box when I search for things on Google, I use it as my main research tool for my art, projects etc and everytime I press one letter a huge list of past things searched for comes down and its a pain in the rear, ive tried deleting temp net files, cookies etc but they are still there! any ideas?

thanks🙂

Interesting. I use IE version 6 at work. I cleared the cache yesterday and so, would have expected this junk to disappear. However, you are quite right, there was still a laundry list of searches. I was able to manually delete everything in the drop down box--you might try that.

Try this;
Click Start, point to Settings, point to Control Panel, and then click Internet Options.
Click the Advanced tab, and then uncheck the Use inline AutoComplete box.
3. Click OK.


Also;
On the Google toolbar,click if you see Options button, then under the search tab, uncheck the box for suggest popular queries as you type

Originally posted by leisurelysloth
Interesting. I use IE version 6 at work. I cleared the cache yesterday and so, would have expected this junk to disappear. However, you are quite right, there was still a laundry list of searches. I was able to manually delete everything in the drop down box--you might try that.

what did you do to delete them manually? thanks for the help 🙂

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Try this;
Click Start, point to Settings, point to Control Panel, and then click Internet Options.
Click the Advanced tab, and then uncheck the [b]Use inline AutoComplete box.
3. Click OK.


Also;
On the Google toolbar,click if you see Options button, then under the search tab, uncheck the box for suggest popular queries as you type[/b]

this box is already unchecked, just looked for it, also on the google options, is that the preferences? if it is there wasnt an option on there to do that 😕 thanks for the help

no worries, sorted it out now, by deleting each letters worth of searches with the actual delete button instead of the other delete button I was pressing, thanks for your help 🙂

Originally posted by expressiveoutburst
no worries, sorted it out now, by deleting each letters worth of searches with the actual delete button instead of the other delete button I was pressing, thanks for your help 🙂

Oh man, silly Windows...

Originally posted by expressiveoutburst
no worries, sorted it out now, by deleting each letters worth of searches with the actual delete button instead of the other delete button I was pressing, thanks for your help 🙂

Coincidentally, I was looking at the google help screens today at work, which tell you how to do this in Firefox, IE, MSN and Safari.

And that was only half an hour after you posted. 😲
That's pretty weird

http://www.google.co.uk/support/bin/topic.py?topic=352

Originally posted by mosquitorespect
Coincidentally, I was looking at the google help screens today at work, which tell you how to do this in Firefox, IE, MSN and Safari.

And that was only half an hour after you posted. 😲
That's pretty weird

http://www.google.co.uk/support/bin/topic.py?topic=352

cheers for that, ive got it in my favourites for future reference 🙂

that was abit weird though lol thanks all 🙂