General Chat

A very big thank you to the person who nudged my thread this morning. Saved me trawling through the pages to look for it when I added the update and wanted to nudge it to the top. Mags :)

To COMPLETELY empty the cookies and temporary internet folders (both need to be done) I've copied and pasted directives from one of my threads it looks time consuming but I originally wrote them out for those who didn't know how to do....it actually only takes a minute to do: EMPTYING COOKIES This routine job should be done once a week or so…..more if you surf the internet a lot. There is more than one way to empty cookies…..this way, though, is the only one that thoroughly empties all the cookies. 1. Click on START at the bottom of your computer screen. 2. Click on SEARCH. 3. A box appears titled SEARCH RESULTS at the top of the box. On the left of this screen area there are a list of options. Click on ALL FILES AND FOLDERS. 4. Now another box appears with same heading at the top SEARCH RESULTS. To the left you’ll see three fields under the sub-heading SEARCH ANY OR ALL OF THE CRITERIA BELOW. 5. In the first empty field, above it says ALL OR PART OF THE FILE NAME. Here you want to type in the word “cookie” (The “ “ doesn't need to be typed in, just the word cookie.) 6. The 2nd field where it says “A WORD OR PHRASE IN THE FILE” can be left blank; with nothing in it. 7. The third field that says “LOOK IN” should show: “LOCAL HARD DRIVE: C.” If it doesn’t look at the blank field and you’ll see a small arrow shaped like a “v.” Click on the arrow and a drop down box appears showing a list of areas in your computer. Click on LOCAL HARD DRIVE C and it will now appear in the field. (You may have to scroll to find it.) 8. Now click on SEARCH located under the three fields you just filled in. 9. Now a list of folders and files will be listed on your screen. What we are looking for in the list are any YELLOW folders labeled COOKIES. You may see other things listed with the word cookie in them but we will be working with only the YELLOW folders. 10. There may be just on or there may be several YELLOW folders listed labeled cookies. The following steps you’ll do to EACH of the YELLOW folders label cookies that you see. 11. Double click on the yellow cookie file to open it. You’ll now note that there is a list of things in this yellow folder. These are called cookies. Most sites you visit on the internet will place these cookies on your computer….you don’t have any control over this…..this is one of several reasons you’ll get a lot of pop up ads on your computer. What you want to do now is empty this folder….we’re emptying the contents of the folder….not deleting the Yellow Folder. Your computer needs the yellow folder to collect cookies. There is absolutely nothing in this folder that will harm your computer by deleting them. Not deleting cookies once in while will actually slow down your computer not to mention more annoying pop-ups for you. 12. To delete the cookies go to the top, left of your screen and click on EDIT. 13. A drop down box now appears…..click on SELECT ALL. You’ll now note that everything in the Yellow Cookie folder is highlighted. 14. Now locate the one file that is named INDEX.DAT. There is only file with that name in the folder. It will either be the first file listed or the last one. 15. On your keyboard, to the bottom left of the keys, find the one labeled CTRL. Click down and hold this key down. While holding this one key down, take your mouse pointer and click one time on the file called INDEX.DAT. You’ll now note that all the files are still highlighted EXCEPT the INDEX.DAT file. This one will no longer be highlighted. 16. Now go back to the top of your screen and click on FILE. 17. A drop down box appears. Click on DELETE. 18. A box will then appear asking if you want to delete these files…..click on OK. 19. You’ll now see all the cookies have been deleted except the INDEX.DAT file….yeah, you did it correctly! The index file, even if you skip step 15, will not disappear….your computer won’t allow you to delete this file….you’ll just get a pop up box saying it can’t be deleted and that’s fine. INDEX.DAT is a system file and your computer needs it. 20. If there are other YELLOW cookie files that were listed, go back to each one and follow the same steps for each. If there are several Yellow cookie files some of them may be empty (that’s fine) or they may show just one file called INDEX.DAT (that’s fine, too.) There is nothing for you to do to these Yellow cookie files. 21. Cookies have been deleted into your trash can so be sure to empty it to clear up space on your computer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Added By Judy in the States on 01/04/2004 06:13:25 | Update Message | Delete Message EMPTYING TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES

We have win 98. I go to Tools at top of screen, internet options - general tab delete cookies is right there, or you can go to the privacy tab and at the bottom is a section to overide certain cookies if you don't want to delete them all. hope this helps Barbara

On mine i have to go to Start. go to find, then click on find or folders. a small grey box appears, i then have to type Cookie in the named part and then type in my computer in ' look in ' then i click find now. hope you can understand that good luck :-)

I think you go to control panel...internet options...delete cookies Elaine x

A very big thank you to everyone who helped me delete the cookies, especially Judy in the States. I am now able to get back on line, but can not find the recycle bin in win 98. Such a long time since I used it and so different from XP. Does anyone know where it might have been put ? Thanks Mags