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Delete or Change URLs in Address Bar Dropdown List

How to Delete Individual Entries from the Internet Explorer Address Bar

Internet Explorer Address Bar Dropdown List

Whenever you type an address directly into the Internet Explorer’s address bar, the URL will be saved in IE’s history. If you pull downdown this list later, those URLs will show up.  Because of privacy and security concerns, you may want to delete these entries periodically. Although you can remove the website URLs from the address bar dropdown list by clearing the history from Internet Explorer, its tougher to delete individual addresses from this list without some registry editing.

I’ll show you how to edit the Windows registry to delete individual entries, as well as a couple free programs that can delete or even edit these URLs.

Manually Editing the Registry to Remove Typed URLs

Use the following directions to delete individual URLs from the Address Bar list in Internet Explorer

1) Click on Start, Run
2) Type REGEDIT and press Enter or Click OK
3) Click on the pluses(+) next to the following folders

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER
  • Software
  • Microsoft
  • Internet Explorer
  • Typed URLs

4) You’ll find a list similar to the following in the right hand column. Right-click in the NAME column and delete the desired URL.

Typed URLs in the Registry

5) Close the Registry Editor
6) Close all open Internet Explorer windows
7) Reopen Internet Explorer and the unwanted URL in the address dropdown list should be gone.


How to Delete Individual URLs from FireFox Address Bar

In Firefox, its much easier to delete individual URLs. Simply drop down the address bar list and highlight the unwanted URL. Then press CTRL-DELETE on the keyboard to delete the individual unwanted address.

Programs to Delete, Edit or Change Typed URLs in the IE Address Bar

EditURLs – Free browser tool that provides the user with the capability to edit individual URL addresses in Internet Explorer’s Address Bar. These URL addresses are also referred to as “Typed URLs”

IE Address Bar Editor - Another freeware program to remove individual URLs, although not quite as easy to use as EditURLs.

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