deleting cookies individually

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is there a way to choose which cookies to delete without deleting them all?
used to be able to do that w/ norton security software.
 
kate said:
is there a way to choose which cookies to delete without deleting them all?
used to be able to do that w/ norton security software.
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You could go into the web browser's TIF folder and delete the .txt files for
the domains whose cookies you don't want on your host.

You could use cookie managers (many are free) found by Google searching or
looking at common download sites (download.com, softpedia.com).

Nirsoft has their IE Cookie Viewer that will let you view the contents of
cookies and also let you select which ones to delete.

Why are you saving any cookies? Have the web browser delete them when it
exits. If you want some but not all, enable the Preserve option which will
keep cookies for sites in your Favorites list.
 
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kate said:
is there a way to choose which cookies to delete without deleting
them all? used to be able to do that w/ norton security software.
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Winpatrol. Free and very handy. Check the cookies you want, and click the
proper box.
 
Nil said:
CCleaner has a similar feature.
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While you can run CCleaner manually and even add it as an event in Task
Scheduler to run are regular intervals (this is how I use it), it won't do
the cleanup when you exit the web browser. Well, not unless you use a batch
file to run the web browser and upon its exit then the next command in the
batch file is to run CCleaner. Because web browsers are often loaded as
child processes, like clicking on a link inside an e-mail client, the batch
file would not get used (so there would be no immediate cleanup after
exiting that child instance of the web browser).

If you don't want cookies lingering around after you exit the web browser,
you need to use cleanup features already present in the web browser or use
an add-on. (I used to recommend IE7Pro but way too many of its features
won't work under IE8, workarounds for some folks won't work for other users,
and it causes IE8 to crash far too often). While I haven't found good free
add-ons for IE8 to provide cookie management beyond what IE8 already has, I
suspect there are more choices for Firefox. Extensions for Chrome is new as
of v4 and I haven't bothered to get acquainted with them for Chrome (I use
Chrome but keep it a clean install mostly to check for HTML compatibility
and to avoid having to use browser-specific tests or code).
 
VanguardLH said:
While you can run CCleaner manually and even add it as an event in
Task Scheduler to run are regular intervals (this is how I use it),
it won't do the cleanup when you exit the web browser. Well, not
unless you use a batch file to run the web browser and upon its exit
then the next command in the batch file is to run CCleaner. Because
web browsers are often loaded as child processes, like clicking on a
link inside an e-mail client, the batch file would not get used (so
there would be no immediate cleanup after exiting that child instance
of the web browser).

If you don't want cookies lingering around after you exit the web
browser, you need to use cleanup features already present in the web
browser or use an add-on. (I used to recommend IE7Pro but way too
many of its features won't work under IE8, workarounds for some folks
won't work for other users, and it causes IE8 to crash far too
often). While I haven't found good free add-ons for IE8 to provide
cookie management beyond what IE8 already has, I suspect there are
more choices for Firefox. Extensions for Chrome is new as of v4 and
I haven't bothered to get acquainted with them for Chrome (I use
Chrome but keep it a clean install mostly to check for HTML
compatibility and to avoid having to use browser-specific tests or
code).
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Or you could just run Ccleaner manually. :-)
 
Sue said:
www.purgie.com
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That is a squatter site. Software there isn't there own. They are
squatting on that domain waiting until someone decides they want to buy that
domain name from them. Notice the "This domain may be for sale." Of course
it is for sale. That's why the squatter bought the name. Until that
happens, they populate the page with advertising. Don't trust anything you
find at a squatter's site.
 
While you can run CCleaner manually and even add it as an event in
Task Scheduler to run are regular intervals (this is how I use
it), it won't do the cleanup when you exit the web browser.
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That's true. But I don't worry about it too much and the occasional
manual clean with Ccleaner is good enough for me. It gives me good
control over what stays and what goes. I like it.
 
is there a way to choose which cookies to delete without deleting them all?
used to be able to do that w/ norton security software.
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CookieWall by AnalogX ; very good , used it for years . ( free )
 
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