Hi Digerati,
Well that worked when I checked the Cookies for Firefox.
The cookies I am most paranoid about are those I don't know where they came from. When I go through the Cookie list in Firefox I delete the ones I don't recognize, sites I haven't been to. Especially those that have "stats" or "counter" or something that Super decides is suss.
For the moment I have accept cookies checked, third party cookies unchecked. I will see how that goes. BTW no need to worry about cookies from DAL, when you sign out there is a message saying "all cookies removed."
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Yeah, when you "sign out". But most people don't sign out, they just exit. And in that case, cookies are not deleted. And that's fine with me because I don't want to have to re-enter my credentials every time I come back in from this computer.BTW no need to worry about cookies from DAL, when you sign out there is a message saying "all cookies removed."
A good (free) "cleaner" for removing junk from your system is CCleaner. It also performs a "clean-up" pass on the registry.
CCleaner - Download
(Click on Download from FileHippo......, in the PayPal box)
When the next window opens, click "Download Latest Version" on the right of the page.
Alternate Download;
|MG| CCleaner Slim 3.02.1343 Download
Once you download and install it, open the program then click on (left hand side) OPTIONS, then COOKIES. Any cookies you want to save (trusted sites, places you have usernames/passwords), highlight them in the left column, then (using the directional arrows between the panes), move them to the right hand column under "Cookies to keep".
Still under Options, click on Advanced. Remove the check mark from the box for "Only delete files in Windows Temp folders older than 24 hours".
Leave all other settings at the default.
Then click on Cleaner (on the top left). When that window opens, click on Run Cleaner (bottom right of the window.)
When it finishes, close CCleaner, and restart your machine. (Some files will not be deleted until a restart is performed.)
I do not advocate running CCleaner on each boot. I run it once or twice a week.
Another good tool to work in conjunction with the above;
RegSeeker
Open it, click on Clean The Registry, then OK.
Once it's finished, along the bottom of the screen, (near the operation progress bar) click on Select, choose "Select All". Then click on Action, then "Delete selected items".
All deleted items will be backed up, just click OK for the default backup filenames/locations.
Close the program and restart the machine.
NOTE: This is a powerful tool. It has many other settings/tools/tweaks. Use more than what is mentioned above at your own volition/risk.