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Configure AutoComplete Settings In IE 7

Posted by on Feb 15, 2007 | 11 Comments

Like its predecessors, Internet Explorer 7 has an AutoComplete feature that, by default, provides possible suggestions for Web sites when you begin typing a URL into the Address bar. AutoComplete is also responsible for storing and completing information relevant to forms, passwords, or usernames; AutoComplete asks you whether you want to save this information for future use. You can delve into AutoComplete and configure its settings for particular uses, or you can turn it off completely.

To configure AutoComplete settings in Internet Explorer 7:

  1. Open the Web browser.
  2. From the Tools menu and click Internet Options.
  3. Select the Content tab.
  4. Click the Settings button.
  5. Clear the checkbox next to any of the choices for using AutoComplete: Web Addresses, Forms, or User Names and Passwords On Forms.
  6. Click OK.

[tags]Diana Huggins, Microsoft, Windows, IE 7, AutoComplete[/tags]

  • Gary

    I have done what you have posted for turning on AutoComplete. It still does not work. What else can I do. I have Robo Form running, would this have any effect.

    Thanks in advane
    Gary

  • CARL SEITZ

    Everything for autocomplete is checked, but nothing is automatic. It used to work a few short months ago, but all of a sudden it stopped.

  • JD

    No luck lady!

    You can set all the Internet crap you want nothing works.
    Windows SUX!
    Thank god I am getting UBUNTU!

  • Doug Garrison

    I still haven’t seen an answer to how to get the IE7 URL autocomplete to work. It worked fine in IE6.

  • Gill Bates

    I’ve been using ie7 for 4 hours as a coder since the 80′s IMHO it is a total disaster. The whole team and especially the PM should be totally ashamed and be sacked. No remember passwords doesn’t work, I got it to prompt once but never again, I tried every possibility.

    Tabbed browsing only recalls the last settings when you reopen, if you click yes and then close (2 clicks), as opposed to firefox just recalling them unprompted, then when ie7 DOES reopen them it adds a blank tab (my homepage is set to blank) pathetic!!!

    IF MS had never existed I 100% believe the computing world would be far more advanced. However by their monpolisation, lack of real competition (linux is not competition) has meant we have had to put up with the worst of the worst solutions for decades now. Until their stranglehold is broken we are going nowhere fast.

  • http://www.tsolkas.com Alexander Tsolkas

    I think this setting should be enabled because of privacy

  • http://makershaker.com Craig

    What you guys want to do is have “Autocomplete” in the url bar?
    Autocomplete is used to refer to forms.
    “inline autocomplete” refers to autocomplete in the URL bar which can be found in internet options/ advanced and then just check the box

  • stipko

    thank you. I am in love with you ;-)

  • Jenn

    This is the most annoying thing I’ve ever dealt with. On my laptop I had to call MS to get tabbed broswing to work again after I installed some required patch for IE7. Now my PC at work “upgraded” to Office 07 and IE7 and NONE of the autocomplete functions work. If I check or uncheck the boxes in Internet Tools is irrelavant as it doesn’t reactivate the apply button anyhow. Changes to teh Advance setting do, so I’ve tried to make changes on the autocomplete settings, and then to the advance setting to to see if they’d take but no luck. Any ideas anyone? Sounds like another registry error to me.

  • http://none cyril

    my autocomplete on ie 8 is gone and i cant find a way to re-install it. can anyone help me?

  • bz438

    If it doesn’t work have a look at this
    by default it was at false for me

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942090