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~Jan~
11-16-2009, 12:48 PM
I guess this is kind of a gripe post. I had searched all morning long for the "run" command in Vista. I couldn't find the darn thing at all. I was just really stumped as I knew it had always been in that "start" button in the past.

Needless to say I started Googling and had found that I could go to the Start Button, Properties, Start Menu and Customize. Scroll down, until I found Run Command and ticked the box. When I had done this, sure enough, "run" was there! The only thing is that it changed the entire look of the "start" button and all that is there also! I didn't like that at all and changed it back.

So unless I am missing something you have to go through all that trouble just to get to the run command? :rolleyes: That's stupid, surely there is another way.

Now the reason I was doing all this to begin with started as a result of another little problem I was trying to help my sister with, this morning. I know but do not remember at one time when you had URL's in the address bar that you could go down this menu of ORL's and highlight them and press the delete key on your keyboard. This does NOT work anymore. What's with that, I liked being able to get rid of them this way.

Apparently now you have to delete them by clearing your history. Ok, so fine, but it isn't fine.... when you do that little trick it wipes all of the URL's out of the address bar. Why can't we pick and choose? This led me to more searching and that is how I came about the "can't find my run command." In order to delete certain URL's from the address bar you Click on Start, Run, Type REGEDIT and press Enter or Click OK, Click on the pluses(+) next to the following folders

* HKEY_CURRENT_USER
* Software
* Microsoft
* Internet Explorer
* Typed URLs

yada yada yada......

C'mon now, tell me something I am missing. This can't be the only way of doing this, is it? That's crazy and too much damn trouble every time you want to delete a URL from the address bar. I know I'm missing something, but what?

Any other suggestions which can't be that big of a pain in the butt to do this?
mlangdn
11-16-2009, 01:01 PM
All-Righty, then

You can right-click the Start button, select properties, and change to the Classic Menu for the run box. If you don't like the Classic menu, and you know the command you want, just type it into the search box at the bottom. The command will work from there.

URL's:
In the drop-down box in IE, just hover the mouse over the URL and a red x will appear at the far right side. Slide over and click that x - BAM, URL is gone!
Bad Haircut
11-16-2009, 01:11 PM
I just hit Windows logo key + R on the keyboard to bring the Run box up. But I'm lazy. I actually get annoyed I have to type stuff in there. :D
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 02:18 PM
Michael, thank you ever so much. :) That worked perfectly for me in IE. So I tried calling sis and telling her, well she claims it doesn't work for her. I was walking her through her it over the phone and it sounds as if she is doing everything right but she claims it is not deleting her URL's.

My question is could there be a setting that is preventing her from deleting them of some kind? I searched Internet Options in the advanced tab but I can't find anything. :(


Hey Greg, I like that way of using the run command. That is easy and I like easy. ;) Thanks
Bad Haircut
11-16-2009, 03:36 PM
Are you sure she's on IE8 and not running IE7. 7 you can't do it. Would be the obvious first question.
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 04:00 PM
Well Greg you know I honestly don't know. I was going to ask her to tell me but she isn't real sure about how to do some of this. Believe it or not she is a travel agent and works on a computer all day, booking trips and printing out documents but when it comes to the simple things she just don't get it. :lol:

So ok, since it wasn't working for her it may be a good chance that she is using IE 7. If that's the case you can't delete the URL's in the address bar by selection?
Grogan
11-16-2009, 04:02 PM
No, you don't have to change to classic mode start menu just to enable the Run command.

Just go to Properties and Customize. You'll see a bullet to enable Run on the start menu.
Bad Haircut
11-16-2009, 04:09 PM
To double check the version just get her to bring the browser up and hit Help on the top menu bar (File | Edit | View | etc etc) then hit "About Internet Exploder" and the details are there.

And no, as far as I'm aware, you can't do it in 7 unless there's some hack or 3rd party software available somewhere that does it.
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 04:24 PM
To double check the version just get her to bring the browser up and hit Help on the top menu bar (File | Edit | View | etc etc) then hit "About Internet Exploder" and the details are there.

And no, as far as I'm aware, you can't do it in 7 unless there's some hack or 3rd party software available somewhere that does it.

"Internet Exploder" :lol: Well I don't use it anymore (on occasion only) so I can understand that term! ;) It took a lot of convincing from Gro to switch to FF and I'm so happy I did now. :D

Well shucks, if she is using 7 that's a real bite. She won't be happy about this. :lol: Thanks anyhow though...


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Grogan, thank you, I have it set that way now. :) Greg's way of using the run command is really sweet and quick. Although not using it much I would probably be asking this same question again next time when it wasn't there for me to use. :lol: I think I have ask some of the same questions here more than once and you have pounded me for it. :roflmao:

Thanks guys for all the help. :thumbsup:
Grogan
11-16-2009, 05:54 PM
... and the sure fire way of clearing your typed URL address bar history, is to clear History in IE's Internet Options. (This also nukes other various shell MRU lists, like the Run command history, recent documents etc.) Exit and restart the browser after clearing junk in Internet Options.
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 06:04 PM
Grogan, yes I knew that would do it but she doesn't want to get rid of all of them. Clearing history will do that and that is what I was trying to avoid.

The thing is my sister works in an office. She has her computer belonging to the office but there are times other agents will hop on her computer, search things in the address bar that they have searched. These are the URL's she is trying to get rid of but to still keep some of the URL's that are there that belonged to her doing searches. I know picky maybe but you know how women can be. :lol:

So clearing history won't do that... although now that I mention that I just helped her delete all temporary internet files, history, cookies and such the other day. Apparently they did not wipe out the URL's as today she was trying to get rid of them. Unless she was just telling me that she did it and really didn't! :lol:

Hell, I don't know now. I just know that you use to be able to highlight the URL in the address bar and click delete on your keypad and that got rid of them.... why we still can't do it the easy way is beyond me. :D
Fingerle
11-16-2009, 06:16 PM
There's this neat little feature they just thought up for keeping the URLs you want in IE.. They call it "Favorites".
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 06:21 PM
There's this neat little feature they just thought up for keeping the URLs you want in IE.. They call it "Favorites".

HAHA!! :roflmao: You try telling my sister that! :P
Fingerle
11-16-2009, 06:24 PM
O.K...


YO! Jan's SIS!! Use the "Add to Favorites" button!..

O.K., I tried.
:lol:
~Jan~
11-16-2009, 06:30 PM
Oh you silly thing you! :chair:

I'm going to copy and paste that and send it to her in an email. :lol: She'll get a kick out of that and knowing my sister she will say "Tell Fing I said to STFU"... :slaugh: In a kidding way of course but that will probably be the first thing out of her mouth. ;)