Technical Details

Delete Cookies helps you clean up:

• Internet Explorer cookies and cache (Temporary Internet Files)
• Internet Explorer address bar
• History
• Temporary Files directory
• Recently Used Documents list

Internet Explorer Cache (Temporary Internet Files)

C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files (Windows 98/ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Internet Explorer saves web pages and images from the web sites you visit to the Temporary Internet Files folder on your hard drive. These files compromise your privacy as anyone can tell from them what sites you visit.

Internet Explorer Cookies

C:\Windows\Cookies (Windows 98/ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Cookies (Windows NT/2000/XP)

A "cookie" is a small piece of information which a web server can store with Internet Explorer. Each cookie is marked with information about what web server it's for.

Internet Explorer Address Bar

Key in the Windows registry:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\TypedUrls

The address bar saves the entries you've made for Web addresses.

History

C:\Windows\History (Windows 98/ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\History (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer automatically record web pages you've visited and documents you've used both today and in the past. The records are organized in folders on the History bar by the day you visited. Within each day, web sites and documents are organized alphabetically in folders, putting each page visited on the site in the folder named after the site.

To find pages in the History list, click the History button on the Internet Explorer toolbar.

Temporary Files Directory

C:\Windows\Temp (Windows 98/ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Temp (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Temporary files are created by your web browser and applications installed on your computer. Removing temporary files frees up hard drive space and enables your computer to run faster.

Most Recently Used Documents List

C:\Windows\Recent (Windows 98/ME)
C:\Documents and Settings\<User Name>\Recent (Windows NT/2000/XP)

Windows Explorer stores a list of recently used files so that you can quickly re-access them. This lets other users see what files you used. To see the list of recently used files, click Start and point to Documents.