Fixing IE URL bar

Craig234

Lifer
May 1, 2006
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I've always typed a few letters in the URL bar which brought up sites in a pulldown list that I could go to to get to a site I wanted.

After a bunch of OS updates recently, the behavior changed.

When I typed those letters, the pulldown was three search engine icons (google, bing, and another). It was wanting one to be clicked to search the letters which is not what I wanted.

I tried a few things to fix it. I went in tools and removed all but Google. That only made it have one icon to do the search I don't want.

I tried disabling Google also and that just made it do nothing but try to treat the letters as a URL.

Any idea how to undo this bad change and get the old functionality of how it would use a few letters you type to list sites from your history? This is Win 7.