How to Erase Cookies on a Computer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to erase the cookies on a computer. Let's go to our computer and we're going to open up our web browser by clicking on the start button. Let's go to the Internet. I'm using Internet Explorer. Now, from here, let's click on tools, which is this little option over here on the right hand side and come down and click on Internet options. Now, this brings up the Internet options screen for Internet Explorer and in the middle here you can see where it says browsing history, click on delete. Now, this gives you an option of all the different types of browsing history elements that your Internet browser keeps track of and one of those is cookies. As you can can see you have the option by clicking this button to delete the cookies. I'm just going to click that. It'll verify that I want to clear all the cookies that are stored in my temporary Internet files. I'm going to click yes. Now, it has just gone through and all of the cookies that were stored in my Internet browser, it's deleted those. You can also delete a lot of other data in this screen such as temporary Internet files, which are cached files. You can clear the history of websites that you've visited so it won't appear in the drop down or also in the history screen. Any form data that you've typed into forms and decided to save and any passwords that Internet Explorer is keeping track of. You can also clear out everything at once by clicking this little delete all button down here at the bottom. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to clear the cookies off of a computer."