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Computer cookies

Have you noticed that when you come back to that website where you made purchase days later, you are greeted with a phrase like 'Welcome back ...!'. Do you know how websites remember your name and preferences? The answer is very simple - websites use computer cookies.
Computer cookies are pieces of data that are sent to your browser from web sites you visit, identify you as a unique user and track your web usage. Every time you visit a certain website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences and other information about you. Computer cookies can do everything from monitoring your visit throughout web sites to tracking how many times you've visited the site, how long you've been on the site, your log-in information at a particular page to remember important information about your computer.

The primary purposes of cookies is to recognize user and retain his/her personal preferences when he/she returns to a website. If you personalize web pages, register for products or services, cookies help to recall your specific information. This may be useful to simplify the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, etc

Why you should clean cookies

Every time you visit a website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences, etc.
Despite cookies are useful, they can also store such informattion as your name and password on protected login pages, preferences, account information and choices you have made on the site. Are there some sites you visit that you'd like to keep private?
And even if you clean browser history, cookies like a map will show your surfing preferences, habits, passwords, etc. Even if the cookies don't contain such information they clearly show that you visited the sites from which they came. So to protect your privacy, you should constatly clean cookies.
Also in one of their malevolent forms, cookies from one web site might track your visits to a different web site. For example, most of the ads that you see on web sites do not come from the site that you are viewing, but from sites that provide ads to many sites. When the advertising site displays the ad, it can send cookies on your computer. This lets the advertising company track your web usage over a range of sites and profile your browsing habits.

How to clean cookies

One way to maintain your privacy is to clean cookies manually. But in Internet Explorer even if you clean cookies manually, index.dat file stores Internet surfing information. This file keeps a total record of every website you visit. And this file is locked, so you can’t delete it by hand.
Clear All History makes it easy to protect your privacy and clean cookies information from your computer, including the locked cookies index.dat file.

Using Clear All History you can clean cookies in Internet Explorer (including index file), MSN Explorer, Maxthon (MyIE2), Firefox, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape

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How to clean cookies in Internet Explorer

Clean History To clean cookies in Internet Explorer 7.0:
• Select "Tools"
• Select "Internet Options".
• Open the "General" tab.
• In "Browsing history" area click the "Delete" button.
• In "Delete browsing history" window click "Delete cookies" button and then click "Yes".
• Click Close and then click OK.

Clean History To clean cookies in Internet Explorer 6.x:
• Select "Tools"
• Select "Internet Options".
• Open the "General" tab.
• Click the "Delete cookies" button.
• Click OK.

Clean History Note:
Every time a web site places a cookie on your PC, Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer insert an entry in the cookies index.dat file that associates a web page with a cookie file. And even if you clean cookies manually, cookies index.dat file stores Internet surfing information - URLs with date/time stamps and pointers to cookie files.
Cookies index.dat file can't be deleted manually as it is used by Windows all the time. Using Clear All History you can easily clean index.dat files content or delete index.dat files.

How to clean cookies in Firefox

Clean History How to clean cookies in Firefox 2.0:
• Select 'Tools -> Options'.
• Select "Privacy".
• In Private area click "Clear Now".
• In "Clear Private Data" window put the check mark for "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now".
• Click OK.

Clean History Note: You can configure Firefox clean cookies when you close it. In this case you should click the 'Settings' button and select 'Cookies' option, click OK and then select 'Always clear my private data when I close Firefox' and click OK.

Clean History How to clean cookies in Firefox 1.x:
• Select 'Tools -> Options'.
• Select "Privacy".
• Open 'Cookies' tab and click "Clear Cookies Now".
• Click OK.

How to clean cookies in Opera

Clean History How to clean cookies in Opera 9.0<
• Open the Tools menu.
• Select Delete private data
• Click the "Details" button
• To clean cookies, select 'Delete cookies'.
• Click "Delete".

Clean History Delete cookies Opera 8.x
• Open the Tools menu.
• Select Preferences to open Dialog box.
• Open the Advanced tab.
• Select "Cookies".
• Click the "Manage Cookies" button.
• Select one or more cookies you want to delete and click the "Delete" button.

Using Clear All History you can easily:
Clean cookies in Internet Explorer
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