Another thing to dislike about Suggested Sites is that it takes up room on your favorites bar.  When I’m scrolling through my long list of favorites, this is seriously the last thing I want to click on accidentally. Since it’s happened a few times and the results were NOT groovy or anything close to what I was looking for, let’s nuke it.

How To Disable And Delete Suggested Sites From Internet Explorer 8

 

  1. In Internet Explorer 8 – Click Tools and Select Internet Options

Now Suggested Sites is disabled, but the shortcut is still there, so let’s get rid of it!   3. Right-Click Suggested Sites and then Select Delete.

  4. Click Yes to confirm the deletion

  All clean!  No more Suggested Sites to stink up the toolbar, and no more bothersome Microsoft tracking!  I always say, “Cleanliness is next to Grooviness!”

  Do you have a great Windows 7 Tip?  Would love to hear about it in the comments below.  Or feel free to join the community discussion in the groovyPost forum! As an aside: Suggested Sites link (button) vs. Search Suggestions: a clarification These are two completely separate “features” that seem to be confusing people all over the internets. First, “Suggested Sites” is the feature the author was referring to. He was correct with everything except on how to remove it (The “Suggested Sites” link) from the Favorites Bar. If you right click and delete as stated the link will simply reappear in a few days. Someone earlier in this thread pointed out that you can hide this link and that is the only way I have found to do it. I will now state the obvious, “Suggested Sites” does just that it suggests webSITES. That is in contrast to the following feature. “Search Suggestions” are suggestions that you see when you SEARCH from the search bar. It is suggesting WORDS to search for and is not suggesting websites. The author was not attempting to discuss this feature. As Jim stated earlier in this thread “go to the dropdown arrow to the right of the IE8 search box. Select Manage Search Providers. For each of the listed providers that has Search Suggestions labelled as Enabled, click on the provider name, and select Disable Suggestions in the Search Suggestions line”. Now when you type in the search bar you will not get suggested search results from your search provider. This is completely separate and is unrelated to the link in your Favorites bar labelled “Suggested Sites”. It seems Microsoft succeeded in making the terminology confusing. In short: “Suggested Sites” and “Search Suggestions” are completely different features. In one sense this is a minor annoyance, because I do almost everything in Chrome and Firefox anyway. But for those few things where I do have to use IE (cross-browser site testing, etc), it’s really irritating. Is there any way to make it go away and never come back? Comment

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