Cleaning hard drive

[AlanS]

Well, I have a 17 yr old son...need I say more...Hard drive is getting packed from his internet explorations. I am a relative novice, but would like to clean things up. Win 98, AOL 5.0.....So far I have deleted the history for that day and prior days, temp internet files, temp files. Yet when I go to a web page where there were selections, I still see darkened areas where I have been. (understand?)....What am I missing? I am also afraid of these "cookie" things. How can something that sounds so sweet cause me future probs? Any help is appreciated

[scotter]

the cookies you can delete if you have site that use passwords and you havew them auto saved for those sites you will have to reinter them buts that is the only bad part
so dump them all
if you want to make it easer there are a lot of programs that will do it all for you I use clean sweep http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[zzzreyes]

increase the security in ur browser, this will eliminate the cookies, at least the automatic ones!
also try running the cleandisk application on your c: properties.
you can also delete or clean out the history folder, mind you that this things don't really take much space, you are prob loosing it all in all the MP3 and other stuff a 17 yr old would download.

[Richard_Cranium72]

I've used one called "Clean n Free" but can't find the link. There is several programs like this.. GLuck DrVette
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[john robbinson]

window washer is a great program and it has a free trial download full version it only last a month though can't remember site use your aol search it will tell you!

[markdshark]

Alan,

I suggest Steping Cautiously with Cleansweep and washer and cleanspace and all that stuff. All too often the program informs you that you don't need certain files which you actually do. This from experience.

Rule of thumb - don't delete any .dll files even if you're informed that they are or "may" no longer be needed.

[bdunn]

Clean the drive with lots of hot soapy water. Oops wrong forum.

Anyway you can setup the browser to minimize history by setting it to 1 day. or you could delete all the history and the contents of windows\temp from autoexec.bat

My favourite solution to this problem is to create a ramdisk in autoexec.bat and tell the browzer to put its temp files there. I have an 8 Meg ramdisk on 128meg machine. when you shut down all temp stuff goes bye-bye

[Jinx67]

I,d disable cookies period. In your AOL browser look in preferences you should have a disable cookies setting there.Its been a long while since I,ve used AOL so if its not there check for how to,s in the help section..