Deleting Your Cookies

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Cookies are small .txt files that allow websites to store information regarding your previous visits to that site.  If you have ever wondered how a website was able to display your name each time you visited it, now you know that cookies make this possible.  Unfortunately, do to Spyware, Adware, and other malicious software types, cookies are not always safe and from time to time you may want to delete the cookies stored on your computer.  Cookies can be deleted by using the Internet Options setting. 

To delete the cookies on your computer:

1.  Open Internet Explorer

2.  Click on the “Tools” menu located at the top of the window

3.  Click on “Internet Options”

4.  On the “General” tab, you should see a button that says “Delete Cookies”.  Click “Delete Cookies” and select “OK” on the next window. 

5.  Your cookies have been deleted and you can close the Internet Options window.