How Do I Delete Cookies From My PC?

Computer cookies are used for various online activities like keeping track of what part of a website you are accessing or your online information. It helps a website identify whether you are currently online or not and what account information is associated with you. All of these bits of information are stored locally on your hard drive and are accessed by the online website when you visit them.

Despite this usefulness, some computer users are wary of the presence of computer cookies because they can be used by devious websites to harvest your information or perform some illegal acts. It is a good thing that most modern Web browsers provide computer users with a simplified way of removing cookies from their computers. Computer users cannot simply turn them off permanently because it may affect the functionality of some legitimate websites. These steps deal with three of the most commonly used Web browsers in the computer industry.

For users of Internet Explorer from versions 6 to 8, you can do the following to delete cookies from your computer:

Step 1: Click the Start button. Select Control Panel command from the list.
Step 2: Double click icon for Internet Options.
Step 3: On the General tab, click the Delete button.
Step 4: Put a check mark in the appropriate box and click Delete button.
Step 5: When process completes, click on the OK button to close Internet Properties window.

For computer users who opt for the open source Mozilla Firefox, the steps to delete cookies are:

Step 1: Click on the Tools menu of the browser.
Step 2: Select the option Clear Private Data. Verify that a check mark is in the box corresponding to Cookies.
Step 3: Click Ok to delete cookies from your computer.

The relatively new browser Google Chrome allows the computer user to delete cookies by:

Step 1: Click Tools menu of the browser and choose Options.
Step 2: Click Under the Bonnet tab to get to the Privacy Section.
Step 3: Click button for Clear Browsing Data and select Delete Cookies and Other Site Data options.

Other benefits of removing cookies include; faster performance, more disk space and of course enhanced security. Also, apart from deleting the cookies, it is also crucial to remove any junk files in your PC to further recover hard drive space. One particular recommended product called PowerSuite 2011 does this automatically. It is the combination of 3 products; Registry Booster 2011, Speed Up My PC 2011 and DriverScanner, on 1 interface. These 3 products in one will improve the PC’s performance tremendously and shuns the complex manual labour.