Deleting Cookies

[Bleeding Edge]

Try refreshing the screen. It may be gone after a refresh.

Delete the unwanted cookies in the Cookies folder under Windows folder first.

Use Windows Explorer to delete the cookies. Delete them under the Temporay Internet sub-folders if need be.

[johnpaul]

Also try closing the folder after deleting. When you reopen again, they should be gone. At least that happened to me.

JP

[montanafan]

I was in my temporary internet files, right clicking and deleting away; when I noticed that a few cookies wouldn't delete. They were just for websites I had visited, TV Guide, Deja.com, etc., but they wouldn't delete. I highlighted them and tried delete at the top of the box, still no luck. It's not particularly important, but it just bugs me that I can't get rid of these things when I want to. Anyone know how?
They actually will not delete. Did not get the microsoft warning, just the regular, "Are you sure you want to..." and I clicked yes, but it was still there. Really surprised me, because that has never happened before.

One thing that may have something to do with it. There were icons for the same sites within the cookies that said favicon and had a graphic of a $ or an outline of someone wearing a mortarboard.

Could it have anything to do with these sites being in my Favorites folder

[Vampiel]

Make sure that you do not have offline web pages enabled in IE, otherwise it will d/l all the info when you go to the net. Make sure you arent on the web site otherwise it will d/l the cookies again. Try right clicking on them and uncheck all the boxes and then del. them. If need be goto dos in the cookies dir and hit del*.* enter

[This message has been edited by Vampiel (edited 10-31-1999).]

[montanafan]

Bleeding Edge
johnpaul
Vampiel

First of all, thank you very much for helping.

I went to the Windows folder and then the Cookies folder and the ones that would not delete before, did now. Only thing is, I didn't see those Favicons and realized that I had been deleting before from within the IE Temporary Internet Files. I went back there and the same ones were still there along with a zillion others. The Favicons still would not delete after right-clicking on them and clicking delete and the Yes.

Please forgive me, if I sound confused and confusing, I've only had a computer for a couple of months.

Is it useful to delete the Temporary Internet Files and was I doing it correctly?

When Vampiel says


Make sure that you do not have offline web pages enabled in IE, otherwise it will d/l all the info when you go to the net.

Does that mean, when I put the web page in my Favorites? Because I never check to make them available offline.

Or does it mean, in IE Temporary Internet Files Settings "Check for newer versions of stored pages". I have "automatically" checked. Should I have "Never" checked?

Or does it mean something else?

Thanks again.



[This message has been edited by montanafan (edited 10-31-1999).]

[Xstar]

Want never to have another cookie? find the cookies folder and deselect 'archive' and select 'read only'. No more cookies. Except when you want.

[montanafan]

Xstar,

Thanks, I'll give it a try.