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re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter
Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 9:42 am
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Posted by Scott (4 messages posted)


If you download the XP Powertoys from microsoft, you can disable the automatic display of entries in the Run box by selecting the "Command Prompt" | Completion option and selecting "None" to both FileName completion and Directory completion.


On Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 5:59 am, Bel wrote:
>I need to find out how to stop Windows XP from automatically displaying the previous
>entries in all boxes after you type one letter. This includes the search option,
>the run box, boxes when I am filling in my email address on other web sites etc.(like
>when I was submitting it here)
>HELP! It automatically shows things like previous searches, past e-mail subject titles,
>e-mail addresses and more!


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Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Bel: Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 5:59 am)

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-Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Bel: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 5:59 am)
*re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Scott: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 9:42 am)
*re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Adam the Wiseguy: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 9:47 am)
-re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (CMaxwell: Sat, Oct 26, 2002, 5:24 pm)
-re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Bel: Sun, Oct 27, 2002, 1:44 pm)
-re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (rich: Tue, Apr 1, 2003, 6:59 pm)
-re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (John Parry: Thu, Feb 26, 2004, 2:28 pm)
*re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Desmond: Tue, May 10, 2005, 7:57 am)
*re: Stop the showing of previous entries after typing one letter (Lola: Sat, Sep 10, 2005, 7:02 pm)
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