technical query (again)

[giraffe]

How do you delete the history in google (so that your children can't see what you have googled to help with the puzzles)? I've gone into internet options and deleted everything it gave me an option to delete, but it doesn't clear google.

[LAT]

I just had a look at my google toolbar and noticed that if you click the little blue arrow at the right of the box where you type there is an option to clear history. Don't know if this would help as I didn't try it 'cos I didn't want to!!!

[kingsley]

I just had a look at my google toolbar and noticed that if you click the little blue arrow at the right of the box where you type there is an option to clear history. Don't know if this would help as I didn't try it 'cos I didn't want to!!!

If you've got a google toolbar on the top then you should do this.

You're safe from me anyway, I always use my user area on the computer and it doesn't have your history on my area!

[LAT]

Such honesty!! You should be proud Giraffe

[giraffe]

Thanks I've done that.

Next question.
Why do the google toolbar and the MyWeb Search toolbars come back every time I turn the computer off, even though I keep turning them off? I seem to have half the screen taken up by toolbars.

[MBH]

Toolbars are the work of the Devil and I never download any.

Mind you - this is from the person who switched off ALL the toolbars on Word before starting to teach a class of beginners Word Processing (I was made to turn them back on again )

People who talk you into downloading toolbars from them WANT them to be on your machine for some reason (now why do I not trust that, do you think?). So switching them off will probably be temporary until you restart and the machine finds "Oh - I've got xyz toolbar - I must start it!"

[Bunnylump]

Google toolbar made my (don't know what it's called the place where you put the web address) disappear, and then it took my computer man at work about 20 minutes to sort it out again.

[MBH]

There you are.... Q.E.D.


{Quietly Eleminates Data}

[LAT]

All mine does is give me the space where I type what I am searching for.

Am I confused

[MBH]

No - you're not confused. You got what you should get, but the poor Bunny lost her Navagation Toolbar along the way.

[SparkOut]

That will be just the search box in the regular address bar, probably.
"Google Toolbar" is another strip of icons as well as another search bar with all sorts of "features".
I've got a lot more time for Google than any of the other browser "helpers" (yeah... right) but I never let it install - even though it comes as default with many other things you think you should have.
(Apart from anything else, these "widescreen" format laptop screens just don't have sufficient visible height to make it anything but awkward to add yet more screen clutter).

[Bunnylump]

I meant the thing where you type the http address. All I ended up with was the Google search thing and nothing else. You can tell I'm really technically minded, can't you??

[SparkOut]

I know what you meant - I was answering LAT really. It sounds like her view is normal, with no Google "Toolbar".

[LAT]

I have a Google search box which is what I use, and another one just along from the box which shows the web address of the page I am on (which I don't tend to use). I got rid of as many of the other buttons as I could as I haven't the foggiest what I would use them for. The only other buttons I use are Favourites, Home and the back arrow.

Do I pass the technically minded test?

[SparkOut]

Well it sounds "normal"

[LAT]

You've made my day It's a long time since I've been called normal.

[Bunnylump]

Ah I see. I must get off this thread, I only get confused when people start talking about computers, or art, or maths, or celebrities, or...(wanders off into the distance mumbling to herself).

[SparkOut]

You've made my day It's a long time since I've been called normal.

Er - I meant your computer situation was normal, not you!


(That would be because you aren't normal - you're very special!)

[LAT]

[Bunnylump]

Special needs?