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Brian - 02 Nov 2006 13:57 GMT

When i try to enter a text into an edit field before the page would load
completely (first encountered with this bug with ebay.com), autocomplete
turns off. I have to restart IE7 to get it work again.

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Sandi - Microsoft MVP - 02 Nov 2006 14:05 GMT

And if you allow the page to load completely first?

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> When i try to enter a text into an edit field before the page would load
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Brian - 02 Nov 2006 14:34 GMT

> And if you allow the page to load completely first?

Then it works OK, but as i "activate" this bug (with beginning typing too
early) autocomplete remains turned off (for other pages too) until i close
and re open ie7.

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steve - 05 Apr 2007 21:22 GMT

There is a little known article on MSDN:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329156

Which explains that when Internet Explorer implemented AutoComplete for
forms, they messed it up. It does NOT work, if the form was not designed to
submit with anything other than a button that is an input button, of
type="submit".

As a result, in IE6, and IE7, this feature is mostly broken, all across the
Internet and Intranets.

There is a workaround for developers, to enable it, but it is not very
convenient at all.

As soon as Microsoft re-opens their public bug tracking system, for IE, I
would recommend voting for this bug to be fixed.

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Donny - 24 Jul 2007 15:06 GMT

Does this bug also apply to the following, or is this something else?

I work in a library, and am working on possibly upgrading to IE7 on our
public computers. So far I have been able to configure it how I want it,
with one exception - AutoComplete.

I started out by unchecking all of the boxes concerning AutoComplete from
Internet Options. Then I went to gpedit.msc, since we found out in IE6 that
it is not enough to just clear the check boxes for AutoComplete since IE will
still ask you if you want to turn it on the first time you enter anything in
a textbox. I edited the following in gpedit for IE7:

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet
Explorer
Turn off the auto-complete feature for web addresses - Enabled
Disable AutoComplete for forms - Enabled
Turn on the auto-complete feature for user names and passwords - Disabled

User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet
Explorer\Internet Settings\AutoComplete
Turn on inline AutoComplete for Web Addresses - Disabled
Turn off inline AutoComplete in Windows Explorer - Enabled

After doing this, I loaded the user profile and launched IE7. When
performing a test Google search I was immediately asked if I wanted to turn
on AutoComplete.

Next I did some searching online for solutions, and tried the following
registry edits:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
I added two DWORDs - FormSuggest and FormSuggest Passwords. Both had a
value of 0x00000000

This had no effect.

Can someone please tell me how to get IE7 to STOP asking me to turn on
AutoComplete?

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Don Varnau - 25 Jul 2007 00:52 GMT

Hi,
Try a value of 1 for
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel

FormSuggest and FormSuggest Passwords

Anything in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel is a
restriction. A value of 1 would enable the restriction.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

> Does this bug also apply to the following, or is this something else?
>
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> Can someone please tell me how to get IE7 to STOP asking me to turn on
> AutoComplete?

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Donny - 25 Jul 2007 13:14 GMT

Thanks.

> Hi,
> Try a value of 1 for
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> > Can someone please tell me how to get IE7 to STOP asking me to turn on
> > AutoComplete?

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