An article in the latest Forbes alerted me to Flash cookies --ones that are stored in your computer using Adobe Flash and are NOT removed if you do the normal cookie removal process.
To learn more - and remove any Flash cookies from your computer - go here and then click on the link to Adobe. I found lots of cookies that I had no idea were in my computer --and deleted them via the Adobe site.
Holy Cow! Just cleared a mess of them myself. Thanks for the links.
REE
thank you very much. I like REE had a boatload also. I bookmarked the page for future use.
I found this setting on my explorer and saved it as a favorite so I can clean them out from there. I like the Adobe website also.
C:\Documents and Settings\HelpAssistant\Cookies
This is one that affects Macs, too, folks. Don’t assume you are immune just because you are using a Mac. You aren’t. I cleaned a ton off of my Mac.
well, once again, FAOL makes life better! after i followed the links you gave, and took some simple action, a lot of the sites i go to frequently now take a whole lot less time to load their pages.
why?
no more annoying animated advertisements!!
Wahoo!!
added Friday: things still could have been faster, so i did a typical virus scan and also went to the website mentioned above and removed the flash-cookies. now we’re cooking!! oddly enough, FAOL was on the list of sites that had put these cookies on. probably has something to do with the occasional animated feature over there on the front page, don’t you think? these would be “easier/faster loading next time” cookies, instead of the “where are you going” cookies. those little nasties had Google sending me where they wanted after a search, not where i wanted. but that’s another story.
Is there any reason not to delete all the websites and to deny future cookies from being accepted?
Your online banking or credit card account access might stop, but you can always go in and allow those manually. I think it is easier to tell it to “ask” but then I’m not running Vista or 7 where it is already constantly asking you if you are sure you want to do that.
Just once, when someone gives me cookies I didn’t ask for, why can’t they be chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin?
Bump, Just because this is a good for cleanup…
OK, I cleaned up the cookies in question, but now I have to ask what the proceedure is for cleaning up regualar cookies. It’s been so long I don’t remember how.
The following is a canned message that you email to friends from the website. But I did use the website below and it seemed to help my computer’s creeping along some. That said I ended up ordering a new computer last week, of course the day after I ordered the new one the old computer started operating great.
I scanned my PC for free using the Windows Live OneCare safety scanner. It can check for and help remove viruses and spyware, improve your PC’s performance, and get rid of junk on your hard disk. Try it for yourself at http://onecare.live.com/scan.
CCleaner will do a complete cleanup or what ever you want.
CCleaner is malware free, freeware.
On my machine with Windows XP
click Start
Control Panel
Double click internet properties
On General tab–click delete
Choose whatever you want to delete.
George
bump again–Best Fishing Buddy upgraded the operating system to Windows 7 and I have to do everything over again…but here this was, right where i needed it.
Howdy Fellas,
I have an HP Vista…Should I do what ya’ll Have done on the 1st Post on this thread?
Thanks
I don’t think your brand or operating system should make any difference. Give it a try and see what it does for you. IMHO, it can’t hurt and may help.