Erase Browser Cookies
Cookies are little files that websites write and store on your computer. Every time you visit a certain website, it will look for its cookie on your hard drive. It uses the information stored within the cookie to know your name, your shopping preferences and other information about you. From the above example, it’s easy to see why cookies can also be a problem; anyone who looks at this folder can see exactly where you’ve been.
Are there some sites you visit that you'd like to keep private?
One way to maintain your privacy is to delete cookies. You could go through your hard drive and Options menus and delete cookies by hand, but unless you are extremely experienced in navigating the file structures of your computer, chances are you will erase something important by accident. And even if you successfully deleted these files by hand, Internet Explorer keeps another file called “index.dat”, that is stored in several locations on your PC. This file keeps a total record of every website you visit. And this file is locked, so you can’t delete it by hand.
Clear All History makes it easy to protect your privacy and erase cookies from your computer, including the locked index.dat file.
Erase cookies
Erase-History.net - learn more about cookies & tips to delete cookiesGeneral information about cookies
 What are cookies?
Cookies are pieces of data which often includes an unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site you visit. Cookies are stored as files on your PC and identify you as a unique user and track your web usage.
What are computer cookies used for?
Cookies can do everything from monitoring your visit throughout web sites, tracking how many times you've visited the site, how long you've been on the site, your log-in information at a particular page to remembering important information about your computer. Cookies allow websites to track their visitors so that they can know how many visitors have viewed the site, how many repeat visitors they have received.
Cookies allow websites to store user preferences and retrieval of this information for viewing customization of movie listings, weather and other local information.
E-commerce sites use cookies for things like shopping carts and checkout options as cookies allow these sites to recognize the items you put into your cart, to monitor you as you continue shopping.
Are cookies useful?
Internet offers a wide variety of useful services such as free e-mail accounts, online forums, and e-commerce sites. The use of cookies is essential for these sites. Without cookies, for example, the sites would have no way to track the items that you placed into your virtual shopping cart as you browsed about the site.
Most cookies are useful in web surfing. Some cookies ("session cookies") last only until you close your browser. This type of cookie is mainly used to remember choices that you make as you navigate through a web site.
Many sites leave cookies on your computer so that they recognize you when you return to their sites. These cookies ("persistent cookie") identify you so that options and preferences that you have chosen in the past are used for your current visit to the site.
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Clear All History
A must-have tool for every PC user
• advanced scheduler to erase history automatically
• shredder option
Erase Internet History
• erase browser history
• erase search history
• erase Toolbar search history
• erase AutoComplete
• erase address bar history
• erase index.dat files
• erase cache (Temporary Internet Files)
• erase cookies & passwords
• supports Internet Explorer, MSN Explorer, Firefox, Maxthon (MyIE2), Opera, Netscape, Mozilla
Erase Windows history
• Windows Temporary Files
• clear clipboard
• Recent Documents list
• Recent items
• Recently open/save files list
• Page file (swap file)
• Windows Run History
• Windows search history
• Start Menu open programs history
Erase application history
• erase Microsoft Office recent documents history
• clear Google Desktop
• erase Windows Media Player history and more
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Cookies and your privacy
Why you should erase cookies
Despite cookies are useful, cookies from one web site might track your visits to a different web site. For example, most of the ads that you see on web sites do not come from the site that you are viewing, but from sites that provide ads to many sites. When the advertising site displays the ad, it can send cookies on your computer. This lets the advertising company track your web usage over a range of sites and profile your browsing habits.
Furthermore, cookies can threat to your privacy as they can store sensitive information like your name and password on protected login pages, preferences, account information and choices you have made on the site. So, even if you erase browser history, cookies like a map will show your surfing preferences, habits, passwords, etc. Even if cookies don't contain such information they clearly show that you visited the sites from which they came. So to protect your privacy you should delete cookies on a regular basis.
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How to delete cookies
You can erase cookies using special software or manually.
If you want to erase cookies manually, please read our guide that helps you erase cookies in different browsers:
How to erase cookies in Internet Explorer
Erase cookies in Internet Explorer 7.0
• Select "Tools"
• Select "Internet Options".
• Open the "General" tab.
• In "Browsing history" area click the "Delete" button.
• In "Delete browsing history" window click "Delete cookies" button and then click "Yes".
• Click Close and then click OK.
Erase cookies in Internet Explorer 6.x
• Select "Tools"
• Select "Internet Options".
• Open the "General" tab.
• Click the "Delete cookies" button.
• Click OK.
Note: In Internet Explorer even if you erase cookies manually, cookies index.dat file stores Internet surfing information. This file can't be deleted manually as it is used by Windows all the time.
How to erase cookies in Firefox
Erase cookies Firefox 2.0
• Select "Tools"
• Select "Options".
• Select "Privacy".
• In Private area click "Clear Now".
• In "Clear Private Data" window put the check mark for "Cookies" and click "Clear Private Data Now".
• Click OK.
Erase cookies Firefox 1.x
1. Select "Tools"
2. Select "Options".
3. Select "Privacy".
4. Open "Cookies" tab and click "Clear Cookies Now".
5. Click OK.
Erase cookies in Opera
Erase cookies Opera 9.0
1. Open the Tools menu.
2. Select Delete private data
3. Click the "Details" button
4. Select Delete cookies.
5. Click "Delete".
Erase cookies Opera 8.x:
1. Open the Tools menu.
2. Select Preferences to open Dialog box.
3. Open the Advanced tab.
4. Select "Cookies".
5. Click the "Manage Cookies" button.
6. Select one or more cookies you want to erase and click the "Delete" button.
Erase cookies in Netscape
Erase cookies Netscape 8.x
1. Select Tools -> Options.
2. Select "Privacy".
3. Click the "Clear" button next to "Cookies" area.
If you want to erase certain cookies, click the "View cookies" button. Select one or more cookies you want to erase and click the "Remove" button.
4. Click OK
Here are some frequently asked question about cookies: how to delete cookies, how to delete cookies in Internet Explorer, how to erase cookies in Firefox, how to erase cookies in Opera, how to enable cookies, how to disable cookies and more
Please read the following articles to find answers to your questions
• How to delete cookies
• How to delete cookies in Internet Explorer
• How to delete cookies in Firefox
• How to delete cookies in Opera
• How to enable cookies
• How to disable cookies
Erase History
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How to erase cookies
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