Cleaning out individual auto-suggest URL entries in IE (6)
Many know that the major browsers offer a means to clear out all the history of pages you've visited, etc. But what if you want to remove a couple such URLs that popup as you type in the URL? Nothing nefarious here in me wanting to do that (not trying to hide my tracks to anything from anyone): I just have some URLs for a couple of sites (which I don't visit often) that come up first in the autosuggest when I would rather see more important URLs that I do visit often on those same sites.
Well, in Firefox, it's as easy as selecting the URL from the list using the keyboard (up/down arrow) and clicking your delete key. In IE 6 and 7, that doesn't work, but there is a useful tool to solve the problem:
Check out IEHistory View: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iehv.html
It's freeware, and works wonderfully well. No installer. Just unzip and run it. It very quickly shows all your entries (showed me my 5,000+ in just a second). See screenshot below.
And despite the name, it's more than just a viewer: you can of course delete entries. The list is sortable and it even makes it easy to find specific entries if you have too many or have a hard time finding some one.
Better still, it's designed nicely for keyboard fans. You can just use the up/down arrows to highlight a line, hit the space bar (to check it off), and then hit the delete key to delete those entries.
Below is a screenshot of the tool from the vendor's site. All in all, a really nice tool, especially for free. I'm sorry I've missed out on it for so long!
