Google Search autosuggestion. I want it dead.

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Can anybody help. I've got...

Google
Windows XP Home
IE 6

The Google search autosuggestion/autocomplete feature is starting to do my head in. Does anybody know how to drive a very sharp stake through its annoying little ticker?

Please....I fear for my sanity....

Thanks.

 

[I like Skol]

I run vista but should be basicaly the same. Top righthand corner of the google page is a small cog symbol. Click on that then the drop down menu should have a 'search settings' option. Click on that then scroll down to the google instant on/off option and select 'off' then save settings at the bottom of screen.

This should sort it but if your computer is anything like mine it will switch itself back on a few times a month

 

[slowmotion]

I run vista but should be basicaly the same. Top righthand corner of the google page is a small cog symbol. Click on that then the drop down menu should have a 'search settings' option. Click on that then scroll down to the google instant on/off option and select 'off' then save settings at the bottom of screen.

This should sort it but if your computer is anything like mine it will switch itself back on a few times a month

Thanks IlS. I tried that but the little bastard is still very much alive and twitching. I restarted the PC too. I'll try deleting Cookies next.

 

[I like Skol]

Thanks IlS. I tried that but the little bastard is still very much alive and twitching. I restarted the PC too. I'll try deleting Cookies next.

You did save preferences after selecting don't use google instant didn't you?

 

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My cookies are auto-deleted on exit, I just discovered, so that doesn't work either...

 

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You did save preferences after selecting don't use google instant didn't you?

Apologies IlS, I just cross-posted.

Yep, I saved my preferences.

Thanks.

 

[I like Skol]

Apologies IlS, I just cross-posted.

Yep, I saved my preferences.

Thanks.

Time for a new computer then!!!

 

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Time for a new computer then!!!

I've been saying that for a year! Do they all just become sclerotic? Maybe the manufacturers just build in a slowing down function

 

[PatrickPending]

for a while I had this link in my bookmarks toolbar (firefox)

www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en

seemed to work - searches without autocomplete - but I use bing now

 

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for a while I had this link in my bookmarks toolbar (firefox)

www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en

seemed to work - searches without autocomplete - but I use bing now