Depends on whether you use IE or Netscape. In IE, there are three subdirectories under the Windows subdirectory you need to clean out, Cookies, Temp, and Temporary Internet Files. You have to click Explore when dealing with Temporary Internet files, because every time you use the browser, it makes a subfolder, and you have to delete them, too. It will tell you that deleting the subfolders will make your computer crash, but it won't.-g-
With Netscape, there is a subfolder called "Cookies" and you also have to clean out the cache. Don't depend on cleaning the cache via Preferences, that won't clean out all the cookies, you have to delete them manually.
I also clean out everything I think can be accessed, like History. This goes beyond merely removing cookies, I try to remove everything that's on the computer that we didn't put there ourselves.
If you've never done this, prepare to be astonished. If I wait a week, I may have hundreds of cookies. |
