How to clear Internet Explorer address bar auto-complete entries

How to clear Internet Explorer address bar auto-complete entries

Clear Internet Explorer address bar auto-complete entries through registry.

The following are the detailed steps. Note: Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on your computer including your registry (see, How to backup windows registry?).

1. Click the Start button, and then click Run.
   
   
2. In the Open box, type "regedit" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK.
   
   
3. In Registry Editor, locate the following registry key:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLsr (Windows 9x)
   HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21...\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs (WinNT/2000)
   
   
4. When you type a URL in Internet Explorer (IE), the system automatically completes known entries with data stored in this registry key. Each time you type in a URL and press the Enter key or the Go button, that URL is stored in this location.

About Internet Explorer

Windows Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer abbreviated MSIE), commonly abbreviated to IE, is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995.

Internet Explorer 8.0 is the latest version of Internet Explorer and has been in development since August 2007 at the latest. On March 5, 2008, the first public beta (Beta 1) was released to the general public. It supports Windows XP SP2 and SP3 (See, How to restore the registry in windows xp?), Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista (See, How to restore the registry in windows vista?) and Windows Server 2008 on both 32-bit as well as 64-bit architectures.

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