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Old e-mails for user IDs...

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Some websites use e-mail address as the 'user name'. When they have a drop-down arrow to choose a user name, i still see very old e-mail addresses i haven't used in more than a year. I have cleaned my com as much as i know, but, obviously, i missed some little folder with this old, useless and annoying info, right?

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by thumbsup2

Those email addresses aren't stored in a file or folder. They're in the MRU history of the registry. You can either use the down arrow to highlight the old entries, then press delete, or you can download, install and run a program called Ccleaner which will clean up the registry for you. Of course, it will also clear out currently used information. But, hey... you don't need it because you remember it all, right?

If you do run Ccleaner, run it over and over again until it reports that it has nothing left to fix. When some stuff is deleted, it then frees up other stuff to NOT be needed.

http://www.ccleaner.com

by jaqui

these old email addresses are store in the website database and in cookies for that website.

as well as in the browser saved logins.
[ automatic login is your enemy, not your friend, saving username and password is a very bad idea ]

by shady108

u could open up your browser and delete all the history and content and saved forms, offline files etc :) this will work :)

or if your using firefox clear private data job done....

its part of the autocomplete in your browser.

if that doesnt work, have you got that stupid google autocomplete thing?

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