How To Edit The Recently Typed URLs List In Internet Explorer

The biggest advantage of Microsoft Windows is that we can tweak it to any level through registry and make Windows work our way. And the biggest disadvantage of Microsoft Windows is the registry itself :-). Huh .. if the registry is corrupt, who will pay for it? .. because if the registry is corrupt, everything is gone.

I like tweaking Windows registry to get the desired results as we can type any command in Linux to get our desired results. Anyway, today we are going to edit the recently typed URLs history in the Internet Explorer. Let me elaborate it through the screen shot.

There are several methods to edit this URLs history. One of them is from

the registry. So let us do it from the registry first.

Editing Via Registry

Open your registry editor
Go to Start –> Run –> regedit

Find the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedURLs

When you reach the key, you can see all your recently typed URLs in the right hand pane. You can double click any of them to edit them.

If you want to create a new item, right click the empty space in the right hand pane and select New –> String Value

If there are three existing keys, name the newly created key as url4. You only have to go sequentially, meaning that see the last value of the keys in the right hand pane and increment it by one and name your newly created key appropriately.

If you want to delete an existing key, just right click it and select delete.