How to remove Urls from Internet Explorer's Address Bar

This is a common problem faced by many internet users. Browsing to a website by typing in the Internet link (URL) directly in the address bar of Internet Explorer is common among users. This results in saving the URL and can be viewed by pulling down the list. Sometimes, you may want to remove, delete or clear the history of links from Internet Explorer address bar.To clear or the history of the address bar in IE only, without deleting your IE History folder, which contains history of links to pages that recently visited, one can refer to these steps. (Purely based on my experimental basis)

• Close all Internet Explorer windows, then click on Start, then Run.
• Run Registry Edit by typing RegEdit in the text box and click OK.
• In Regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Typed URLs
• Delete all of the registry keys (in the form of urlx, where x is 1, 2, 3,….), or just the keys that contains URL link that you doesn’t want to appear in address bar.
• Note: If you delete only certain keys, make sure the remaining keys are in sequential order start from url1. Or else all keys will be corrupted and deleted. One way to avoid the problem is the select the URL that you want to keep in the IE address bar before performing above steps, so that the selected links will go on top, hence occupying lower sequence number.

There is one more way to do this:

• Right click on Start Menu
• Then click on Properties.
• Go to Start Menu tab
• Click on Customize… (whichever that selectable).
• Then go to Advanced tab.
• Under the Recent documents box, click on Clear List will clean the history of IE address bar, as well as listing of recent documents being used or opened.
• Alternatively, in Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options (or go to Control Panel, then click on Internet Options). In General tab, click Clear History. Note that this will also wipe off all your browsing and visited websites or web pages history as well.

Please follow the link to view a demo movie of it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeCJUrGy59o

Warning: The above suggested steps are purely based on experience and can vary from systems to syestems depending upon user rights. Only advanced computer users (Administrators) should try playing with registry. Others should carefully review the steps before applying!