AutoComplete doesn't want to erase on Internet Explorer 8

[RocShemp]

I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this but a search yielded no results.

As you probably know, IE8 usually autocompletes a web adress you're trying to type. Paranoid person that I am, I usually erase my browsing history regularly. Normally, this would erase the autocomplete entries as well. However, today I noticed that, although my browser history is indeed erased, the autocomplete remains unaffected. After searching on windows.com and other sites, I saw that you can errase autocomplete directly. I tried this several times but it stayed.

I even tried a third party program but ended up deleting it because it accomplished nothing.

This is weird because, until today, the autocomplete would delete by simply deleting my browser history. I saw online that I'm not the only one this has happened to but found no satisfactory solution.

I even tried unchecking the autocomplete boxes and deleting anew. But all that does is disable autocomplete altogether. SHould I check the boxes again, I see nothing was actually deleted. The only solution I found was clicking the red X on each autocomplete line (extremely tedious).

I've made no changes to my PC today. I even tried reseting IE8 to it's default setting and nothing. Any idea what the heck is going on?

My system is the following:

Intel Core i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz 2.67GHz
4.00 GB RAM
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Operating System
ATI Radeon HD 5670 GPU (512MB GDDR5)
msi P55M-GD41 motherboard

[LordCrumb]

You could try 'CCleaner' : http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner, go into Applications and clean.

or you could just use Google Chrome

[RocShemp]

Originally Posted by KaiGusto

You could try 'CCleaner' : http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner, go into Applications and clean.

That's the third party software I tried. I installed it again and trie it. It didn't acomplish squat.

[Rojas]

[QUOTE=RocShemp;3537922]I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this but a search yielded no results.

As you probably know, IE8 usually autocompletes a web adress you're trying to type. Paranoid person that I am, I usually erase my browsing history regularly. Normally, this would erase the autocomplete entries as well. However, today I noticed that, although my browser history is indeed erased, the autocomplete remains unaffected. After searching on windows.com and other sites, I saw that you can errase autocomplete directly. I tried this several times but it stayed.


Try this from Microsoft

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ed-information

[Q?]

Roc did you tick the box for the autocomplete? (using CCleaner).

[RocShemp]

I just took the most inelegant approach and simply reinstalled WIndows 7. That fixed the problem. Sure, it created new ones (WMP12 is not behaving as it used to regarding the creation of music albums and I lost my Norton 360 licence ) but it fixed the IE8 problem.

Originally Posted by Q!

Roc did you tick the box for the autocomplete? (using CCleaner).