Things You'll Need:
- Windows Vista
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Step 1
Windows Keyboard Button**Open Your Directory**
Hold down the Windows button and press the letter 'E'. This will open up your file directory. -
Step 2
**Know Your Cookie Files**
Vista stores cookies in two files, so you have to open each one individually and look for the cookies you want to delete.
One file is here:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\
and the other, very similar file is here:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low\
Where it says USERNAME, you have to insert the actual name you created when you first got your computer (for instance, my username is DAVID). -
Step 3
Cookies in Your Directory Window**Access Your Cookie Files**
Copy the first of the cookie directory names shown above, paste it into the address bar of your directory window (which you opened in Step #1). Hit 'Return/Enter' to bring up your list of cookie files.
NOTE: Opening the files in the normal fashion, by clicking through the various folders until you reach the Cookies folder, doesn't always work in Vista. I don't know why, but it just doesn't. -
Step 4
**Find Your Cookie**
Click on the 'Name' column to sort your cookies alphabetically, and begin scanning them for the ones you want to delete. When you find a cookie that you want erased, just click on it, and hit Delete.
Alternatively, you can right-click, and delete it that way.
Comments
SyphriX said
on 4/19/2009 good advice for getting rid of that one privacy violator without throwing the baby out with the bathwater.