Removing Cookies from Your Computer
The directions below will work fine in Internet Explorer, but won't work for Netscape. In Internet Explorer, you can also get to this option by clicking on Tools, then Internet Options.
In Netscape versions 4.X (not sure about version 6), click on start, then find, then just search for the file cookies.txt and delete it. If you want to delete particular cookies and not the whole file, you will have to look at the code and identify the section(s) you want to delete.
The following directions were developed by Phil White who attended the 2002 conference, verified by Information Technology at the University of Wyoming. He used Internet Ezplorer 6.0 and WINDOWS 98.
TO MANUALLY VIEW AND DELETE COOKIES AND/OR TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES:
START
SETTINGS
CONTROL PANEL
INTERNET OPTIONS
Note you are on the "GENERAL" tab at the top.
Under "Temporary Internet Files" in the middle section:
Delete cookies - click here to delete cookies (In IE 5.5 click on "View Files" to view the list of temporary internet files and cookies, and manually delete them)
Delete files - click here to delete your Temporary Internet files
Settings - click "View Files" to view the temporary internet files and the cookies which are on your hard drive and you can delete them individually.
******************************************************************************TO PREVENT COOKIES FROM BEING AUTOMATICALLY PLACED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE:
START
SETTINGS
CONTROL PANEL
INTERNET OPTIONS
Click on the Privacy tab at the top (IE 5.5: click on the "Security" tab, then the "Custom Level" button. Scroll down and click "Disable" or "Prompt" under "Cookies")
Under Settings click on "Advanced"
Check the box to Override Automatic Cookie Handling
Click on "Block" under First-Party and Third-Party cookies (or click "Prompt" if you want to be informed that the web site wants to place a cookie on your hard drive--giving you the option of accepting or rejecting cookies from individual web sites)
******************************************************************************TO AUTOMATICALLY DELETE TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES WHEN CLOSING INTERNET EXPLORER (NOTE: THIS WILL NOT DELETE COOKIES):
START
SETTINGS
CONTROL PANEL
INTERNET OPTIONS
Advanced tab
Scroll down to "Security"
Check the box next to: "Delete Temporary Internet Files when browser is closed"