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February 15th, 2001 17:00
Cookies
This is a two part question. 1. I was looking at the list of cookies and each time I tried to remove one a warning box advised me that to remove might cause damage to my system. These were all internent sites I had visited. Can I remove them and how do I do it? When I tried the notepad came up with computereze written on it and I didn't know what to do with it. 2. How do I find the list of cookies again? I have been trying to retrace my steps this morning and I haven't a clue. Is there a way to look at Windows history which shows past entries. I use to work on an airline computer and we could do a *H and go back to all our past entries. Kind of like what we can do with History on the internent.
Thanks for helping.
Jeanette
Thanks for helping.
Jeanette
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KayH
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February 15th, 2001 18:00
Hi,
In Internet Explorer, your list of cookies can be found in C:\Windows\Cookies, using Windows Explorer to browse. To delete a cookie, highlight it with one left-click, right-click that, and choose to Delete it.
In addition, various cookie crunching programs are available around the internet which will show you to which company a cookie belongs and provide a link to the site, in the event you are unsure of the origin of the cookie and whether or not you want to keep it.
You should use caution in editing, however. Certain cookies which belong to sites at which you've registered, if deleted, will mean that you will need to re-enter your registered login and password at such sites. Other cookies are what are known as persistent cookies; they hold a history of your requests from a site, such as at a search engine site. Those can be helpful to keep.
If you're careful, you should be able to edit them with no inconvenience to yourself.
If you want to play it really safe, before editing, open Internet Explorer, choose File from the upper word toolbar, choose Import and Export, and choose Export Cookies. Follow the wizard through the process. You will then have a backup copy to import, if you later decide you deleted one or more cookies you'd like back.
HTH,
Kay
JeanetteNW
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February 16th, 2001 23:00
KayH
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February 17th, 2001 00:00
Hi Jeanette,
Removing cookies won't reduce ad banners; removing the adware cookies prevents the targeting of adware banners to your system based on the information contained in adware cookies regarding websites that your system has visited. Those cookies contain a travel history so to speak, because adware cookies are structured to gather the information and report it to the next site you visit which asks for that particular adware cookie. This allows them to give you banners based on what they think your interests might be.
In order to stop getting adware banners, you would need to get a program that does that job. I'm sure there are several out there. The one I use is called AdSubtract Pro, recommended to me by goonboy, a regular here. It is highly configurable and can be set to remove ad banners, popup windows (for the most part--some sites know how to program around it now), allows the editing of cookies in an easy manner, allows the disabling of some internet features you might find you don't want such as embedded audio, image animation, and things of that nature. It isn't a free program, but I have found it to be well worth the investment since I try to keep adware off of our systems as a matter of principle.
They do offer a freeware version which may do just what you want with ad banners, called AdSubtract SE. If you'd like to take a look, you can find it here.
HTH,
Kay