Something I can't get rid of...

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David77

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To cut a long story short…

It’s my mum’s birthday soon and when I was round at my parents’ house last week I was looking online for a present for her (which I bought) that is meant to be a big surprise.

The only problem is that the exact address of the present I bought keeps appearing in the address bar every time the first of the address is entered. This defeats the aim of the present being a surprise.

I always use Tools\Internet Options etc to clear the history, cookies, temporary internet files and autocomplete etc but this particular address won’t go away, it KEEPS coming up.

There are a couple of other addresses that do this as well but I’m less concerned about them. One person I asked said it might be something to do with autofill. Does anyone know how I can stop this address from constantly re-appearing?

I want to avoid if possible using anything that will clear things off the computer because it is their computer and not mine.
 
I can't do that it isn't my computer. I don't want to make significant changes or clear things from a computer that isn't mine.
 
Sorry but I've already said in my first post:

'I want to avoid if possible using anything that will clear things off the computer because it is their computer and not mine.'

I had things like ccleaner in mind when I wrote that.
 
It happens when I start to type an address into the address bar not when I do a google search.

It doesn't do this with all the sites that have been visited; only this one and a few others.

Obviously this site is the one I don't want to be seen because then the present I've bought will be revealed!
 
ok how did you clear the history did you go to Documents and Settings>Name>Local Settings>History.
(C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR NAME\Local Settings\History)
Select the history files you didnt want and hit <Delete> key.
 
Thanks I'll try that.

I always clear the history by going through Tools\Internet Options etc...

Are there any other things I can be trying as well? If I can get together a list of things to try then that increases my chances of solving the problem the next time I use their computer. I'm planning on trying tonight before the present is revealed!

One person I spoke to said it may have something to do with 'autofill'. What did that mean?
 
David77 said:
Thanks I'll try that.

I always clear the history by going through Tools\Internet Options etc...

Are there any other things I can be trying as well? If I can get together a list of things to try then that increases my chances of solving the problem the next time I use their computer. I'm planning on trying tonight before the present is revealed!

One person I spoke to said it may have something to do with 'autofill'. What did that mean?
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autofill is a way of remebering the contents of certain forms on a web page eg googe
so when you start typing in google up pops all the history of what you have searched for.
 
How come there are these few websites that keep re-appearing when all the others disappear as they should do?

Any further tips on what I could try would be welcome. Anything that clears data off the computer isn't really an option, it isn't my computer.

Thanks
 
David77 said:
How come there are these few websites that keep re-appearing when all the others disappear as they should do?

Any further tips on what I could try would be welcome. Anything that clears data off the computer isn't really an option, it isn't my computer.

Thanks
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did you look where I told you to look, your going to have to clear at least some data off the machine, the histroy IS data
 
I haven't had a chance yet, I'm at work and will try it on their computer later tonight.

When I said I was concerned about removing data I meant I didn't want to run the risk of removing personal folders and files by using something like ccleaner. I'd only feel happy about using a program like that if I was totally confident I knew what I was doing.
 
CCLeaner doesn't get rid of personal folders. I use it every weekends, it never deleted anything I didn't want him to. You can check what you want to be deleted too.
 
Just to let you know, its been sorted...

It can be done by downloading IEHistoryView on this site:

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html

One user stated:

'I have done the http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html website and downloaded the utility for free and it worked. It took like 2 minutes. All you have to do is download the utility, unzip it to a folder, click on the exe file, check the boxes that you want to delete and then delete them with the X at the top. It works very well.'

I thought 'It can't be that easy' and guessed it was probably an advert or someone with a vested interest in it but no, it DID work that quickly!!
 
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