How to Delete Cookies and Clean Your Computer

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By Serafina
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So your computer is running slow and you are rapidly losing patience with crashes, slow applications that run out or resources? This sounds like you have errors in your registry. In lay persons terms that means GET RID OF YOUR COOKIES!. These are the "crumbs" that are left behind on your computer after you visit a website. Cookies are used by websites in many ways to both enhance your web surfing experience and to track your activity. If you are worried about your privacy, you have a good reason to be nervous. Cookies store information and update your profile when you return to that website. So learning how to delete your Cookies helps your computer to operate better and protects your privacy in the long-run.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Internet Connection

How to Delete Cookies and Clean Your Computer.

Step 1

First clean your computer of the cookies by clicking on START, go to your CONTROL PANEL, then INTERNET OPTIONS.
Step 2

Notice that the second row down says DELETE COOKIES. Click on that and then click on DELETE TEMPORARY FILE. When a little box comes up and says DELETE OFFLINE, you don't have to click on that. Only click on DELETE COOKIES. If the box says DELETE TEMPORARY FILES, you can choose to do that as well.
Step 3

Now that your cookies are gone and temporary files are cleaned, you can adjust your Microsoft Internet Explorer(as long as it is Explorer 6.0 and higher) to block cookies. To do this, open Internet Explorer and choose TOOLS.
Step 4

Choose INTERNET OPTIONS. Click on the PRIVACY TAB. A sliding bar allows you to adjust the setting. From here you can adjust the cookie settings by going up and down the scale that you see. As you go up the scale, the cookies setting becomes more restrictive. The highest setting will block all cookies and even disable existing cookies on your computer from being read by websites.
Step 5

The lower scale setting will allow your computer to accept the cookies. Since cookies can enhance a website or in some cases may even be required, you can manually override your settings and type in certain websites that you will allow accepting cookies from.
Step 6

Override automatic cookie handling by clicking the ADVANCED button and following the directions on the pull down menu.