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To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (7942)	2/11/2003 3:05:16 PM
From: TEDennis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9677

If you click on the "Last date modified" column header, it will get sorted to the top (or bottom). Click on it repeatedly and it will alternate from ascending to descending sort. Or, you can sort by name. Clicking on any of those column headings will cause a sort. That's a Windows standard feature. Some applications conform to it, some don't. Any time you see a button as a column heading, click on it to see what happens. Typically, cookies won't be deleted unless you delete them manually. They're not really "temporary". They have an "Expires" date when they are eligible for automatic deletion if you ever get to the point where your "cookie space" has been exhausted. Most people never delete their cookies, so they continue to build a "collection". I delete mine about once a quarter to clean up my environment. Fewer cookies equals less search time when an application asks for "their" cookie. If you delete them all, then you'll lose all your "save this logon" info to all the sites you frequent. Like SI, for instance. It saves your logon info as a cookie. That just means that you'll have to logon again. Cookies take just a few bytes, usually. Just enough for the application to "remember" what it needs to remember. There is a limit, but I don't recall what it is. TED

To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (7942)	2/11/2003 3:31:43 PM
From: TEDennis	Respond to of 9677

Bob T: BTW, those aren't ALL cookies in that "Temporary Internet Files" folder. When you view a web page on a browser, any graphics images in it are saved in that "Temporary Internet Files" folder. That way, the next time you view a page that has one of those graphics in it, the browser can access the image from your hard disk instead of having to download it again. MUCH faster. Especially if you don't have High Speed Internet access. 56KB is sloooowwwww. It won't hurt anything to delete all those files. The cookies AND the images. But you might notice the next time you open a page you've been to before that it takes longer to load. That's because it has to re-download those images that you deleted from your local hard drive. It would be like hitting "Refresh" on every page. But, it only happens once. Then the images are stored on your hard drive again. You can review that list of files to determine which pages have been visited from your computer. Like, for instance, you could determine if your grandkids sat down at your computer to play a game ... and then sneaked a peek at the "National Geographics" skin shots. (or worse !!) TED