Ok Walloon if you want to be picky about my word usage , How does one cover HER tracks? I’m sorry I didn’t use perfect English. I guess you have nothing better to do at dawn than get on-line and correct other peoples grammer errors.
Anyway thanks to those trying to help. I did exactly what Dr Deth said to do, I clicked tools,internet options,delete files. Then I went to “view files” and the ones I wanted to get rid of from yesterday are all still there. Or at least the “cookies” are. Are files and cookies one in the same? No I don’t have spybot, and wouldn’t know what to do with it if I did! I really need to get rid of this stuff. No, its not porn or anything like that. I found this cool place where you can look up old friends…anyone for that matter and find out where they are and other harmless info about them. I looked up all my old boyfriends of course and now I don’t want my husband to find all that. He probably never would, but IO’d rather not have to explain that I was just wandering what these folks were up to, no big deal…
Deleting the Files will leave the Cookies on older IE browsers. Delete the Files, then there should be a button next to that that says “Setting”. Hit that and you will see a “View Files” button. Hit that and all you should see will be Cookies. Just highlight and delete them.
In the world of Internet Explorer, they are different.
“Files” would be the actual HTML of the pages you visit, graphic files, and some other things.
“Cookies” are tiny bits of info that certain websites send to your computer for storage. In the benevolent hands, cookies are meant to make navigating frequently-visited sites easier (a common benign use of cookies is to enact an automatic login to forums such as this one). Of course, there are scads of malevolent uses of cookies, which account for their overall bad rap.
In any event, having IE delete files is a different thing from having it delete cookies. They have different buttons on the Tools/Internet Options/General tab (assuming IE version 6 or newer).
Brodelund, thank you for a very informative post from someone who obviously know what he’s talking about.
Goldenmean1975, you may have already done this, but when you hit “Delete Files”
(On Windows XP the path is Start> Control Panel> Network and Internet Connections> Internet Options> Delete Files)
make sure the “Delete all offline content” box is checked. It’s a mistake I’ve made and it is possible other would too. If you don’t have WIndows XP or other Operating Systems aren’t similar, I’m at a loss as to how to proceed.
Thanks Duke Of Rat! That worked. Now unless someone wants to go searching throught the recycle bin I should be off the hook. Thanks for all the replies.
Right-click on the Recycle Bin icon … then choose “Empty Recycle Bin”
Of course, then someone may want to run Symantec Ghost on your hard drive and look for “deleted” files that haven’t yet been overwritten on the disk. But you still have very significantly increased the PITA factor of finding you out
Heh…I run a quick wipe on my free space (1 pass) nightly and a complete DoD-level wipe (7 passes) on the free space weekly. I don’t want future generations stumbling on SDMB threads about goat felching when they dig my hard drive out of a rubbish pile.
That’s my SOP as well. Every Saturday night at 10pm the system does a complete DoD wipe. If for no other reason than to get rid of all the random crap that accululates on the hard drive during the week.
Note that “wipes” indicate a guilty conscience to some. Clearing the cache is just maintence, as is emptying the recycle bin. Doing a Defrag will help “wipe” empty files, and again, it’s just maintenence.
