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How To Clear or Delete AVG Toolbar Search History

Posted By Raymond In Category: Computer

May
18
2008

The AVG Toolbar is a new tool which works together with the AVG LinkScanner and checks search results of the supported Internet search engines (Yahoo!, Google, MSN). If you select to install the toolbar during the installation of AVG 8.0 Free Edition, it will be added into your Internet Explorer and/or Mozilla Firefox.

AVG Toolbar contains also a Yahoo! search box, which is an integral part of the toolbar and can not be removed separately. Just like any search toolbar, it has the capability to record previous searched keywords and clicking the drop down box will reveal them. Sometimes we’d like to clear the search history because it is just not nice to let other people who is using your computer to know what you were looking for.

Clear AVG Toolbar search keywords history

I tried looking at every options in AVG Toolbar but couldn’t find a way to clear the search history. I went to AVG frequently asked question page and found the answer. Here’s how to remove the previous searched keywords in AVG Toolbar for both Internet Explorer and Firefox.


In order to clear the search history in AVG Toolbar for Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox
2. Type about:config at the address bar and hit enter.
3. Type avg.toolbar.searchHistory at the filter and hit enter.
4. Double click the avg.toolbar.searchHistory line.
5. Delete the contents of the opened box and click OK.

Delete AVG Toolbar search history in Firefox

In order to clear the search history in AVG Toolbar for Internet Explorer:
1. Close Internet Explorer
2. Go to Control Panel > Folder Options > go to View tab > select Show hidden files and folders. Click OK.
3. In Windows XP, you’ll need to delete the file COMBOSEARCH.acs. The file is located in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application data\AVGTOOLBAR\COMBOSEARCH.acs
For Windows Vista, the COMBOSEARCH.acs file will be located in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\AVGTOOLBAR\COMBOSEARCH.acs

Delete AVG Toolbar search history in Internet Explorer

It is easy to delete the search history in AVG Toolbar but it’s very troublesome. Please take note that the above solution is to only delete search history but not disabling it. The only way to disable the search history is to not use the search feature in AVG Toolbar or uninstall it. If you decide that you do not wish to use the toolbar, you can either skip its installation during the AVG installation process, or disable it manually in your Internet browser. Disabling or uninstalling the AVG Toolbar has no negative effect on the level of security provided by AVG Free Edition. The only consequence of missing toolbar is an absence of some of the options, and less verbose information about the threats found by the AVG LinkScanner. The main settings of the LinkScanner component can be still configured in AVG Free User Interface.

Let’s hope that AVG will make it simpler for their users in future version of its toolbar.


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    • Kilu Narei

      AVG Toolbar is slowing down my browsing speed so I removed it very quickly.
      It’s just another item that parses and processes every page load.
      I say don’t use it.

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    • mariano

      con internet explorer es casi lo mismo cuando tengan el COMBOSEARCH bien ubicado lo abren con algun editor de textos, o worpad o lo que sea y adentro aparece lo que han buscado, lo borran, lo guardan y o cierran, reinician explorer y ya esta limpio el historial. (la verdad no se si pase algo al borrar el COMBOSEARCH pero prefiero no borrarlo :D

    • elize

      j’arrive passssss

    • Martin

      Men, thanx very much u got damn rit, as soon as i did that everything was deleted!! nice.

    • marcus vinicius

      Muito obrigado.
      eu nem estou acreditando que eu me livrei daqueles historicos pena que irei ter que ficar apagando diaramente. pq eu uso muito aquela pesquisa.

      esta dica me serviu muito mas muito mesmo.

      muito obrigadoooo.

    • marcus

      ok

    • Heather

      Thanks. I hate the toolbar. It redirects me to a Yahoo search that gives me a 404 error.

    • ritesh

      i use internet explorer and with ur tip mine avg toolbar was not empitied so what shall i do

    • Sidney

      Thanks for showing how to remove this nuisance.
      AVG is very patronising in not giving users the option to remove history.

    • http://15459 pedro

      ola

    • You

      no lo puedo hacer
      tengo windows xp pero ese archivo COMBOSEARCH no lo encuentro, no está en mi equipo

    • Waqar

      Thanks for this important information.

    • http://notenho Ronan

      Obrigado pela dica!

    • master

      mira wn, no se pa que le day tanto color pa hacer eso :P junto a la barrita de busqueda del avg dice serach ahi presionas clear history y listo:P:P no hay pa que hacer lo que puiste kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk no seay wn :P

    • master

      y pa los que wns que quieren hacerle caso a este y seguir el camino largo les digo que si se puede hacer como lo dice , y pa los que no pillan la carpeta donde esta… pongan el nombre en buscar luego van a opciones avanzadas de busqueda y le ponen mostrar carpetas ocultas,, despues que encuentren la huea vayan al directotrio que les indicaa, como esta en una carpeta oculta deberan ir a herramnientas opcones de carpeta luego a ver y luego mostar carpetas ocultas :P:P:P: chau wns y no klean estos pots que no sirven de nada porque los hacen wns que no saben kkkkkkkkkkkkk :P:P:P mejor dediquense a aprendar a usar el shark o el bifrost o el poyson kkkkkkkkk :P:P

    • Cat

      Thank you for that. You have no idea how long I have been trying to delete this from my browser!

    • http://simo mohamed

      momo

    • john

      Get rid fo that damned tool bar-some egg head did it!

    • mohsen

      Please tell me how can I delete the contents of the Yahoo search bar. Thanks a lot.

    • http://needhelp jesse

      i deleted the history on avg search once, but i can’t seem to get it to work again. what am i doing wrong?

    • snafu

      On my search bar right next to “AVG”, and just prior to the search box I have a blue “down” arrow. If I click on that, a drop down box opens and has options that allows me to “clear search history”. KISS when it works, and I’m a newby.

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