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by charliedennis

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Whenever I go to the Internet and start typing a web page address, it will automatically display a web address below the address bar. I know that this is a 'help' feature, but I have (several times) cleared out the history and deleted temporary internet files. I have also flushed the DNS cache and searched for this web page address, both on my C drive and in the registry, but with no luck. Can anyone tell me where it could possibly retrieving this 'mystery' address from so I can remove it?

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by tig2

And browser? I know in FF how to do this but not in IE.

by jdclyde

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It is just a setting "for your own good" that needs to be turned off.

by charliedennis

I use IE6. Where is this setting? I would like to turn it off...is it what is called auto-complete? Even if I 'did' turn the setting off, is the web address still somewhere on my pc???

by deity_chooch

I think I have run into this issue before on an older version of Windows and IE. If I remember correctly, I cleared a lot of temporary Internet files, cookies, security and privacy settings, etc. and still could not resolve this issue.

I do have a friend who used to use the File -> Open instead of typing in the web address bar just for that reason.

by charliedennis

But, wouldn't you agree that the address 'has' to be somewhere on your pc. I mean, it can't just 'make it up', can it?

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