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To: TEDennis who wrote (7919)	2/10/2003 11:26:43 AM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9677

Geesh, TED. Why do you think they called it cookie? It has to be un-American to just go and delete a cookie. Takes a real circumventer(non techie term) to do something so drastic. Thanks for showing us how to delete...will try here in a second.<g>

To: TEDennis who wrote (7919)	2/11/2003 2:32:59 PM
From: Bob Trocchi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9677

TED... OFF TOPIC: COOKIES >>From the action bar, select Tools/InternetOptions/General. In the Temporary Internet Files section, click on Settings. Click on ViewFiles Look for a file (cookie) named "stockreport/". Delete it. You'll then have 3 more freebies.<< I tried this and WOW, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of "cookies." I did finally find the one I was looking for by assuming that it would be near the end or the list and I was correct. I deleted and tried 3 more and then went looking again and I could not find the file near the end. Could I have missed it? So the recent "cookies" get located at the end of this long list? Other Questions... 1. Since these are called temporary files when if ever do they get deleted? They look quite permanent to me. 2. If I deleted them all what would happen? 3. I noticed that on the setting page it asks how much storage you want to allot to cookies. I guess it was set originally at 124 mb. That my friend is a a lot of cookies! If I reduced this would then some of the cookies get deleted? 5. Which ones? I assume some day my 124 mb will be full of cookies. What happens then? 6. How much space does a cookie take. I assume just a very few bytes. 7. As you get more and more cookies does your PC spend more and more time searching to see if a cookie was already there? I guess that is all I can think of now and my guess is that none of this is really that important. I am just curious. Finally I guess that PC's are really the "Cookie Monster!!" Cheers Bob T.