Deleting Cookies?

Ace, while your knowledge of programming and hardware architecture surpasses mine, you have never had to work with the general public and computers, have you?

If Lynn is asking how to delete her browsing history, do you really think any of your post is going to mean anything to her?
While everything you posted is accurate, it is far beyond most peoples knowledge and ability.

Lynn, everything Ace mentions is correct, but if you follow the steps I outlined previously, you will cover any of the possible causes Ace mentions above and barring an actual hardware failure, it should make a big difference.


Were you able to get the beast to behave yet?

 

During my relationship with this Anus/Asus computer, I actually found (somewhere) the option for deleting cookies...

I've also found where I'm not even using but (maybe) 24%, or similar to what this computer can do...memory wise.

All these systems, and ways to analyze things and install something and uninstall it ( :yikes: ) ...I could probably follow a map to the moon easier.

Its all been interesting, as I've honestly read everything y'all have posted whether I understand it or not and I'm seeing who knows what to look for...

My son would know all of what everybody says, and I rather embarrass him.

He thinks I'm just supposed to be able to hit a few buttons, remember and assimilate it all and

BAM POW it's fixed.

He is able to do the BAM POW thing...but getting him to do it like pulling hen's teeth.

The problem with this is how it wanders, which I'm sure has to do with this loathesome touchpad and having a dial-up connection on a laptop which is designed for, well, any other kind of internet connection besides this dial-up.

 

CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your cookies, It provides tools for clearing your temporary files, cleaning the Registry and cookies.

 

There's also a firefox extension called "Self-destructing cookies" ... I use and recommend. You'd be surprised how quickly you can get lots of cookies on your computer. When you close a tab, the cookies for that site are automagically self destructed, so other sites hosting ads can't request their tracking cookies to see what your browsing habits as easily.

 

I have deleted something (not sure what all) by using the little gear thing, the Settings icon, at the top of my page. There were a lot more choices than I liked having to choose between. But I know something happened because I had to re-enter a password for a site I go to where I never log out.

I used to have Firefox on my old computer but it isn't on this one. I think it is handling all I can deal with.

The more time that passes the less one is able to download through dial-up.

 

It sounds to me like your cookies (and/or cache) were cleared. I know that's one of the things they do is store your login info for various websites you visit.

The way I do it with Firefox is hold Ctrl+Shift and press Delete. It brings up a box where you can choose various schemes to delete the data it stores on your computer. You can even click the selection box, choose Everything (instead of the default, In The Last Hour), then go on to check the boxes to tell it specifically what you want to delete. I just choose them all because I don't mind having to log in to places again or have a history of where I visited since I bookmark everything.