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How do I delete cookies, how do I enable them??

How do I change my name on my e-mail, it is Outlook...

Thanks!

-- Melissa in SE Ohio (me@home.net), May 06, 2002

Answers

On my computer to delete cookies I go to: tools, internet options, click on settings, go to edit, click on select all, go to file, click on delete. You can also clear history and offline material.

-- Melinda (speciallady104@hotmail.com), May 06, 2002.

If you are using Explorer 6 you can do so by:

1. Click on tools;
2. Click on internet options ;
3. In the middle box under the temporary internet files you click on "delete cookies".

Another way is to "manually" delete the cookies. This works on all windows operation systems. To do so:

1. Go to My Computer on your desktop;
2. Click on the C: drive;
3. Click on the Windows file folder;
4. Click on the Cookies file;
5. Highlight the first one and hold down the shift key and page down - that will highlight all of them;
6. Hit the delete button.

Remember that when you delete cookies you will also delete all those you might want - for instance, if you have a site you like to sign into automatically, you will lose the ability to do so and will have to sign in manually instead. You can bypass those you want to keep by following the the steps in the 2nd paragraph which will allow you to see all the cookies that are there. You can just delete those you want to be gone and keep those you might want.

I personally prefer to manually delete my cookies because it becomes very interesting to see who is tracking you!

-- Karen (mountains_mama2@hotmail.com), May 06, 2002.


If you're wanting to do it just on this LUSENET site, there is a link at the bottom of the post text area (when you click to post an answer), "ask this server to expire your cookies."

-- Randal in Brazil (randal@rhyme.cjb.net), May 06, 2002.

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