How to Delete Cookies in Internet Explorer

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Michael Burton, with michaelburtonfilms.org, located in Salt Lake City, Utah. We're here talking about how to use Microsoft Windows. Now, what I want to talk to you about is how to delete the cookies on your computer, or or on your Internet Explorer. Let me start out by saying that Windows XP is a registered trademark of Microsoft, and I am in no way affiliated with Microsoft. Okay, there are a couple ways to delete your cookies from Internet Explorer. I'm going to show you a couple. If you scroll down here to the start menu, we're going to bring up Internet Explorer. This will pop up to our homepage, which I have set as default to Yahoo. The the cookies on your computer is what stores all the the history and the information. It also stores web pages, and items from different web pages, so that when you revisit a web site, the website actually runs faster and smoother for you so you don't have to wait each time for it to load. For example, I have a website; it's michaelburtonfilms.org, and when you go there the first time you have to wait a few min moments for the pages to load, but one of the, once the pages are loaded, every time you go back to my web site you will not have to wait any longer. Even videos; when viewing videos on the website, once you have viewed a video and it has loaded once, when you go back to play it again it will be loaded as long as you don't delete your cookies, which is what I'm going to show you how to do right now. What you're going to do is come over here to the right hand side of your screen on the upper right. And you have an option that's it's a drop-down menu that says tools. You can actually start right here by deleting your browsing history. Now, what that'll do is automatically delete your browsing history. Your browsing history is this up here. There's a drop-down menu at the top. As you can see, we have visited yahoo, we have visited expertvillage, livestrong.com, cracked.com, Ehow, and google. These are all the websites that we have viewed. Now, if we want to delete that or delete our cookies associated with those websites so that we can basically start from scratch and get those files off our computer, which actually tend to slow the computer down and take up space; we can either come over here to tools and we can click delete browsing history which brings up our delete browsing history menu, which gives us options like Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History; there's our cookies, History, Form Data, which is any type of form information that you put in; your name, address, phone number, credit cards, things like that, Passwords; if you've selected those little box next to your email or next to other websites like your bank account or other things that say please save my password, that will automatically delete those so that they no longer exist. And here, you have the options here to de delete them individually. You can delete the Temporary Internet Files. You can delete your cookies. You can delete your History. You can delete your forms. You can delete your passwords, or you can click delete all, and it'll delete every single one of these, okay. So that's one method to getting in there. Let's close this. The other method is to come up here to the tools menu in the upper right hand corner, scroll down to your Internet Options, and this brings up the Internet Options screen. This gives you a lot more options. You got your General, Security, Privacy, Content, Connections, Programs, and Advanced. If you scroll down here to your browsing history this gives you the option right here to delete. What you're going to want to do is left click on this delete. Again, it brings up the exact same window; the Delete Browsing History, where you can delete your Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form Data, or Passwords. Again, let's let's select delete all. It'll ask you Are you sure you want to delete all your Internet Exploring browsing, Explorer browsing history? You can also delete files and settings stored by the add-ons, which I usually don't do, but I will select this. And if you watch, it'll automatically...Well, it looks like it's done, so now let's let's go up here to our drop-down. Well, let's click okay. Then let's go up here to our drop-down list and see that now there is no information stored in there. It no longer shows that we've been to expertvillage, or Livestrong.com, or Ehow.com. It is completely blank; therefore, deleting the cookies. Now, another way to check your cookies; usually, there's a cookie folder. If we scroll down to the start menu, bring up the start menu; we go up to the my computer. Now what we want to do is open our hard drive. We're on the C drive. So we want to open our hard drive. We want to go over here to Windows. This is where you're going to find your cookies and stuff. Now, under here you're going to have a folder that's called Temp. You've also got Offline Web Pages. These are all cookies in a sense that you could delete. Now, there actually is a cookies folder, which to be honest with you I don't believe we have. It's probably because we just deleted it. Here's your History folder. You've got your Temporary Internet, and this is where it stores a lot of the files that you've temporarily, or that you visit on the web. We have just erased that, so if we were to open up the Temporary Internet Files the files no longer exist because we just deleted that. So that is how you delete your cookies on Internet Explorer, thus erasing your history and saving you space on your computer, and in essence, making your computer run faster."