can't delete address bar history completely

[wit>trope]

I tried clearing everything through Internet Options: cookies, temporary internet files, history, autocomplete forms and passwords ... and some address bar entries still autocomplete. If I turn autocomplete off it's not a problem, but I don't want it turned off and it's annoying that about a dozen address bar entries remain ... one of them is not even a web address but a file on my computer. I tried deleting the file and that doesn't remove it from the address bar history either.

So I downloaded a program from www.ccleaner.com but that didn't help either

Stupid windows

Please help me. Oddly enough one of the address bar entries that won't delete is the Windows Update website.

O and it's not because they are in my favorites cuz I have way more than a dozen favorites and some of the addresses aren't even in my favorites.

 

[Fetus4188]

Turn off autocomplete or get a new browser..

 

[ainwood]

Open regedit and go to:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\TypedURLs\ and delete all the keys there that you don't want to show up

 

[Reno]

Open regedit and go to:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\TypedURLs\ and delete all the keys there that you don't want to show up

And the way to open register editor is as follows.

Open up the start menu and click on the run icon. (i think it is there in all windows versions)

Then type to the box that opens up, regedit. And then follow ainwood's instruction.

 

[wit>trope]

Open regedit and go to:
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\TypedURLs\ and delete all the keys there that you don't want to show up

I tried doing that already but there's nothing there. In Data it says "(value not set)"

I even tried searching the registry for one of the URLs that don't want to disappear (note it's just these particular URLs, everything else goes away) and it wasn't anywhere to be found in the registry.