Get Rid Of Your Recent Searches In Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular email applications available. We depend on the same for sending and receiving email messages. Other than that, we also use it to maintain calendars, manage schedules, prepare address books, assign tasks and others. As you are aware, to search for something in Outlook, you may type the keyword in the search bar, which will help us find out what you were looking for. But if you had already done many searches, all the phrases that you have typed previously would come up. You might wish to get rid of the recent searches made from the search list. If you wish to remove the recent searches, you have to make some changes in the Outlook email setup and especially in the Registry Editor of Windows.

Let us see the instructions.

Instructions

• You need to click on Start button on your desktop and click Run. 
• Now type regedit and select OK button and this will open up the Windows Registry Editor. 
• You need to select the folder on the top that is labeled HKEY_CURRENT_USER. You need to select the + sign that you find next to the folder and this will expand at once. Move to Software> Microsoft>Office>---.o>Outlook. Here --- is the version of Outlook that you have installed on your system. 
• From the Registry folder of Outlook, you need to open Contact folder and then the QuickFindMRU folder. Now the registry value should be right clicked and after selecting the same, press Delete and when you receive a prompt to confirm, select OK. 
• On the Registry folder of Outlook, open Contact folder and then StripSearchMRU folder. Now the registry value should be right clicked and after selecting the same, press Delete and when you receive a prompt to confirm, select OK. 
• Now in the Outlook Registry folder, open folder Preferences. On the screen labeled LocationMRU, you need to right click the mouse after selecting it and select Delete and confirm the same. 
• In the Outlook Registry folder, open folder Office Finder. Now the registry value should be right clicked after selecting the label MRU and select the Delete button and confirm the same. If you find MRU3, the same process has to be repeated. 
• Close the Windows Registry Editor and this will delete the recent searches in Microsoft Outlook. 

By making such changes in the Outlook email setup, you can delete your search results in Outlook.