B****y updates!

[Guest]

I don't know what boxes you mean on the opening page? Is it the apps you mean? You can customise the start page to show any page you want.

In Google search you search for any string and when the results come back you have a number of tabs in the top side of the results screen.
The first one is selected by default and that's the general, or "All" search. You can now click on Images and all images related to that search will come up.
You can even specify what size of images you search for, or a specific colour scheme. No limits here!
Other possible tabs are Maps, Videos, News and Others.
This is a really powerful search engine when you learn its features.

[Gern]

Aaahhh! So you sort for images, videos etc AFTER your search. That's just what I wanted thanks.

The boxes I referred to are the ones shown here:

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They're the ones in the centre of the page. The first two are labelled Yell.com and lottery results so I assume these are Favourites. With the Bing favourites they were in a menu bar at the top of the page and I could create folders for particular types - eg Model stuff, music etc.

[Guest]

Those boxes are your most common pages you visit and they will change as you use the browser more.
Funny anecdote: this is how people get caught for visiting dodgy pages by their partner when they don't know that it might turn up as a frequently visited page

I've disabled that feature on my computers since I don't allow Google to store my search results. You can change that page if you want to.

[Gern]

Hi Jens.

I've looked into disabling or hiding those thumbnails. There are two main answers I've found.

One says there are no user options available to do it.

The other option is to download an extension from the Chrome webstore. I've tried that and apparently it too has been disabled!

Is there any particular reason that the morons at Google have decided to allow anyone to track my web use and I have no say in the matter?

Say what you like about Bing, the options you get are much more user friendly than those I've found so far on Google.

[Guest]

You can disable all tracking on your Google account but it's not exactly being advertised because that's how they make their money plus the police likes to be able to track people by just asking (read; demanding) that Google hand over such information.

Go to settings in Chrome and set "new page" as start page, or better - set to start on all pages that you had open when you turned off the computer the last time! That's a super handy setting!

To delete all old data (statistics) on your account just follow this link and choose delete all activities

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?utm_source=help

You can also leave all ways Google store your activities. Per default Google even stores your physical position on all your Google/Android devices and that's really shady to have as default setting!
There's no danger today with them having your information but we don't know what might happen tomorrow?

[stillp]

Hi Jens.

I've looked into disabling or hiding those thumbnails. There are two main answers I've found.

One says there are no user options available to do it.

The other option is to download an extension from the Chrome webstore. I've tried that and apparently it too has been disabled!

Is there any particular reason that the morons at Google have decided to allow anyone to track my web use and I have no say in the matter?

Say what you like about Bing, the options you get are much more user friendly than those I've found so far on Google.

Another thing you can do in Chrome is to open an incognito window, (Ctrl+Shift+N, or click on the three dots top right of your screen and select "New incognito window") which prevents Google from caching pages to your PC. It won't save:

• Your browsing history
• Cookies and site data
• Information entered in forms.

Pete

[Gern]

You can disable all tracking on your Google account but it's not exactly being advertised because that's how they make their money plus the police likes to be able to track people by just asking (read; demanding) that Google hand over such information.

Go to settings in Chrome and set "new page" as start page, or better - set to start on all pages that you had open when you turned off the computer the last time! That's a super handy setting!

To delete all old data (statistics) on your account just follow this link and choose delete all activities

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity?utm_source=help

You can also leave all ways Google store your activities. Per default Google even stores your physical position on all your Google/Android devices and that's really shady to have as default setting!
There's no danger today with them having your information but we don't know what might happen tomorrow?

Hooray!! All sorted. Got my videos back and got rid of my browsing history.

One of the best things about this forum is you can usually find someone who knows something about your problem - and is willing and able to help!

Thanks guys. I couldn't have done it without you. I daresay my local computer repair shop could have done it, but they would have taken a week and probably charged me for both labour and some hideously expensive download fix!

Anytime I can do you a favour - like lending you taxi fare to get home say - give me a shout!