How do I get more than 12 typed addresses in drop-down?

I've already seen that I need to remove address bar sections, but how on earth do I do that?

cjhtwo said:

I've already seen that I need to remove address bar sections, but how on earth do I do that?

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Are you talking about Outlook? or what?
Can you be a little more specific.

Thank you

Sorry. It's the address drop-down in Internet Explorer.

Hello Cjhtwo, and welcome to Seven Forums.

This would be the autocomplete feature. You can clear this in Internet Options by clicking "Delete AutoComplete history" button like in the screenshot below. Unchecking the "Address bar" box will turn off autocomplete for this.



Hope this helps,
Shawn

I think I didn't make myself clear enough. Whenever I want to go to a new website, I click on the down arrow in the address bar to see the websites I've visited in the past. Right now it only shows the last 12 websites, so when I go to a new one, the bottom one is removed from the list. I want to have as many as I had in XP, I think it was 20. Right now there are the 12 typed addresses, followed by a History section that has 5 showing and can be expanded to 20, and then a Favorites section of 5 that can go to 20. I read somewhere that if I remove an "address bar section", that I can have more typed addresses. But how do I remove an "address bar section?"

Cjhtwo,

I'm not sure if it will have more than 12 or not, but you can also click on the Favorties toolbar button, History tab, then click on a day that you want to see all the websites that you went to that day. It will show everything instead of the last 12.

"More typed addresses

As part of the request for more control, many of you desired to see more typed addresses. The other sections (History, Favorites, and Feeds) are expandable to show 5-20 items, but in Beta 2 we limited typed addresses to 5. I’m excited to announce that we now offer the option to see more typed addresses.

Turning off one address bar section (ex: feeds) will increase the number of typed addresses from 5 to 12. If you decide you really just want typed addresses and turn off all the other sections, you will now see up to 25 typed addresses. Coupled with the change to turn feeds off by default, you will now see up to 12 typed addresses in the default case"

I got this from somplace here called IE8 Smart Address Bar. This is what I was looking for, not all of the steps involved in using the Favorites & History tabs. But I have no idea how to "Turn off one address bar section." And I'd really want to turn both of them off so I can get 25 typed addresses. I would have hoped that if directions are given to do something, that instructions on how to do it could be found somewhere.

Can anyone tell me how to accomplish the directions given in the quote above? How to I "turn off all the other sections?"

There is a thread called IE8 Smart Address Bar: What's New.

Can anyone tell me how to accomplish the directions that are given in that thread?

So nobody knows how to follow the official instructions that are given? This does not bode well!

Maybe this is what you are looking for . good luck to you with this problem. And welcome to Seven Forums!

using a better browser might be an easier option ?

Well I tried unclicking the history and favs in the settings and it works good. Thanks for the idea cjhtwo. Now when the kids want me to find the web game they was playing two days ago I can show them a quick place to look for it. My only problem with that is they are not all old enough to read very good yet. Sorry if that is not what you wanted cjhtwo.

Thanks! I hadn't thought that this was it because I thought Autocomplete ws the same as Autofill. But it was. The directions seemed to say I could get more if I removed only one section than if I still had both sections. But it stayed at 12 when I kept the History section. I had to remove the History section to get more than 12. Now I have to figure out which I prefer. The nice thing about the History section is that it said where in the website I went, not just the website mane. For instance, there was a de-cluttering article that I had been sent to in Redbook and the History secdtion in the drop-down brought me right to it. The History that is in the Favorites section in the far left just has the Redbook website, not the article. Now that I've gotten used to the Most Viewed that show up in a new tab, I think that maybe I'll go back to having the History section in the drop-down since that means I effectively have 21 websites at my fingertips, the 9 in the New Tab and the 12 in the drop-down. Unfortunately I lost all the History in the drop-down so I'll probably never find those particular places again. Oh Well. Now I have the information to make a good decision.

The same instructions were posted earlier, but I thought it was about Autofill so I didn't think they were the right ones. Sorry to Brink, I think that's who it was.