two problems -- search strings are saved and favourites go byebye

I'm on a different computer (my dad's), and the search strings on sites like yahoo! and hotmail are saved (hotmail can be set to not remember my email addies, but when I start typing 'g', the rest of it shows up). How do I remove this? I've tried erasing files and cookies to no avail.

The other problem is the 'favourite links disappear after a certain time' problem. After a week or so, the favourite items that I don't visit disappear, and a down arrow shows up. How to remedy this so the entire favourites list shows up?

I'm not sure about the favourite links problem, but I can help you with the first thing.

Go into Control Panel > Internet Options (or Tools > Internet Options from browser)

Click on the tab marked "Content".

You'll see a section marked "Personal Information" and a button saying "Auto Complete...". Click this.

It will say "Auto Complete for..." so uncheck things you don't want it to remember, for example if you uncheck web addresses it won't remember web addresses, and so on. For the search engine thing you probably need to uncheck form. That's it :)

yay <3

Firebird lets you export your bookmarks to a file so that you have them saved forever. Firebird has nice little buttons which clear your privacy information, passwords, history, cache, cookies, autocomplete, etc. Firebird has one little button to delete all that crap at once.

Don't make me hurt you. My dad's not going to use firebird, and EVERY SINGLE TIME I DOWNLOAD IT, IT DRIVES ME CRAZY FOR DAYS AND I END UP UNINSTALLING IT GRRR WTF