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When you're done, click the Hub button.

If you want the selected items to be cleared automatically when you close your browser, set Always clear this when I close the browser to On.

Click Clear to erase the selected data.

Click Show more for additional options.

Check the box next to each type of data you'd like to clear. Browsing history is the first item listed, so make sure this is checked.

Open the history menu as described above.

This menu allows you to view the pages you've visited in chronological order.

Click the History icon to open the history menu.

Click the Hub button in the upper right-hand corner of the window.

You can also access this menu with the following steps: In a Microsoft Edge browser window, open the history menu using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+H.

Microsoft Edge is the default browser in Windows 10, replacing Internet Explorer on new computers.

To help keep your browsing history private, and to free up disk space on your computer, you can clear your local browsing history. So you can now change your home page, change your search engine and remove bad toolbars and other extensions.As you browse the web, most web page data is cached locally on your computer to help pages load faster and reduces the amount of data you need to transfer over your internet connection. Scroll down to find the specific one you want to remove - or simply any extensions you don’t recognize or don’t add lots of really important and valuable features - and click on the trashcan icon on the right side of that entry: Now you’ll see a list of all the extensions - including toolbars - you have installed: To do that look on the left side and click on “Extensions”: Pick the one that’s most reasonable, again, probably Google or Bing, and click “Save” to proceed. Yes, there’s even a way you can have the search engine for this site - AskDaveTaylor - be your default search system, but don’t worry, I’m not hijacking your searches! 🙂 Not sure what’s going on? Choose “Manage search engines…” and you’ll see all the choices in far more detail, including specific URLs in play: You can pick Bing if you’d like to try something else, of course, but any of these five core search engine choices should do just fine and should be safe choices. Next, scroll down a bit on the same Settings page and find “Search”:Īhhh, this is one spot that’s bound to be messed up, based on what you described.Ĭlick on “Google” and you’ll see there are preset search engines you can choose from, the primary of which is Google, which is no surprise given it’s Google Chrome. Eyeball it carefully to ensure you’ve included the “:” and the two “//”, and click “OK”. For example gets you one of the slick personalized home pages. Or make your life easier and actually type in the URL. Make sure in the address bar it hasn’t been hijacked or changed (as my Dad’s computer has with the Google search) then navigate back here and click “Use current pages”.

The “Use current pages” feature is nice: close all tabs but the main window then navigate to the page you want to use as your home page. I prefer “Continue where I left off” because your “home” page can be hijacked, but let’s say you want to keep a standard home page (maybe Yahoo’s home page, say, or MSN.com) and that’s hijacked already.Ĭhoose “Open a specific page or set of pages” then click “Set pages”: Now you’ll have yet more things you can tweak and adjust, but look for “On startup”: Lots you can monkey with here, but let’s stay focused. Look on the top right for a button that has three horizontal lines:Ĭlick on it and a ton of different options appear: Let’s start by finding the “Settings” preference. Still, we don’t want to cry Uncle if we can fix the problem, do we? 🙂

Worst case, you can always delete Chrome then use another browser like Internet Explorer to download a fresh copy of Google Chrome. Let’s jump in and I’ll just hope you can wade your way through the junk they’ve installed and fix things. Sneaky and darn frustrating!Ĭhrome makes it pretty easy to clean things up, but yeah, it’s a huge pain. When he goes to Gmail, it pushes out a sequence of pop-up ads in separate windows, some of which even have fake “close” buttons that actually launch yet another ad window if you click on it. My Dad’s going through a very similar problem where he goes to “” and ends up at another search site that is plastered with ads all over the page.

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