What is a "cookie" on the Internet?
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Cookies\n\nCookies are actually harmless text files that certain web sites will place onto the hard drive of your computer. Your Internet Browser will then load the information into memory while you are visiting their site. The Cookie itself, actually takes up very little space and acts as an identification card for the visiting site. You can compare this to visiting your favorite restaurant where your food server will usually remember certain aspects of how you like your food prepared and what you usually order. This information would obviously be based upon his familiarity of your prior visits. Well Cookies actually act in a similar manner and do not contain viruses as a virus must be executable file. Let us look at some of the ways that Cookies act as an identification card.\n\nWhy Sites Use Cookies?\n\nThere are numerous reasons why websites would want to use cookies. These range from statistical purposes, such as how many visitors came to the site. This can be further broken down into are they new visitors or actually repeating visitors and how often do they visit. The Website would actually create a unique id for each visitor and store this information into a database.\n\nCookies can be used to store your personal preferences, referred to as customizations, that you set while navigating their site. For instance, if you visit Yahoo.com, you can sign in to create your very own personal yahoo page where you can customize it according to your news and weather preferences after providing your zip code. You can even change the color of the page layout as well.\n\nOnline Shopping sites can use cookies to keep track of items that you add to their shopping carts and quick checkout options. The cookie will keep track of every item that you add to the shopping cart while you continue to browse through different pages or even entirely different sections of their site. Every item you add is stored within the Web site’s database along with a unique ID value that has been assigned to you. Therefore, when you select the check out option, the site automatically knows what items are in your cart by retrieving those selections from its database. This is why sites such as Amazon or eBay will prompt you to enable cookies in case you have disabled them.\n\nCookies also provide web designers and programmers with a quick and convenient method of keeping their site content fresh and up to date according to the interests of their users. Modern web servers use Cookies for back-end interaction as well, allowing them to securely store any personal data that the user has entered within a site. Therefore, on return visits the user now only has to enter partial information to access their account and purchases can be made quicker as their payment information is on file regarding their previous purchases.\n\nIn closing, as Cookies are actually small text files, they really can not damage your computer system or any files on your hard drive. Once again, they cannot transmit viruses as viruses are executable in nature. Some users may just not want to be tracked and this is one of the primary reasons why many people just disable accepting cookies.
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Anyone at all can get tracking cookies on their computer unless they have their privacy level set to high (this will block all cookies) or have manually over-ridden cookie handling and blocked all cookies themselves.\n\nA cookies is just a bit of info that a website places onto your computer that it may need to refer to later.\n\nFor example, Yahoo will place a cookie on your computer if you select the 'remember password' option.  A cookie will then be placed on your computer which will tell Yahoo to log you in automatically each time you visit.\n\nTo delete cookies go to Tools on the top menu bar, click Internet Options (last option in the drop down box) and click the Delete Cookies button.  Whilst you're there you may want to hit Delete Files - this will delete all the temporary internet files that are on your computer.\n\nTo adjust the way your computer handles cookies click on Tools > Internet Options > Privacy.  Move the slider bar up and down to select different options.  Click on Advanced if you want to manually override cookie handling.
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Cookies are just small pieces of text on user's computer which stores small amount of data about users after browsing a specific cookies enabled website. You can create cookies in ASP  too and in PHP too. You have to learn the basic functions regarding cookies like\n          setcookies()\n in the brackets there will be the parameters like when cookies will expire or die.
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there is too much information on Cookies, just type "Cookies" in the search bar above & u will know!!!!!
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Okay. I don't remember exactly what I said when I answered your question before, but I'll try to rephrase it. The guy that answered above me is wrong because the cookies on your computer only track you when you're using the browser you were using before.\n\nCookies that are placed on your computer while you are using Internet Explorer can only be modified, viewed, or accessed by Internet Explorer, not Netscape and vice versus. \n\nYou don't have to worry about a cookie that was placed by Internet Explorer when you're using Netscape. You also don't have to worry about a cookie from Netscape tracking you when you're using Internet Explorer.\n\n\nThe cookies from Internet Explorer and the cookies from Netscape are indeed placed in different locations. The cookies from Internet Explorer are placed in the following directory (if you're using Windows XP): C:/Documents and Settings/*Your Username*/Cookies. The cookies placed by Netscape are placed somewhere else (I'm not exactly sure where because I don't have Netscape, but I think they are under C:/Documents and Settings/*Your Username*/Application Data/Netscape/Cookies).
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Files don't have cookies. The cookie itself is a file. It is a text file, you can read it with notepad, but it is often (not always) encrypted, and thus meaningless to human eyes.
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Many websites issue "cookies" when you visit them.  So if you check the "save login info box" it issues you a cookie that has that info on it.  If you clear your cookies from your internet browser, then you will lose that infomation.
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Try this:\n\nStart, control panel, internet options, ( general settings ), view files, there is where you will find cookies.
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Cookies are not "harmful."  They are flat text files.  The harmful stuff are scripts and programs.  Cookies show up in spy ware scans because they represent an effort by someone on the Internet to catalog or store something from you. Cookies that show up in spy ware scans are normally from known advertisers or marketeers who are marking your information so they can collate into statistics that they sell to others.  Be deleting these files you are telling those marketeers 'NO THANKS.' Don't use me to make money on.\n\nBut not all cookies are bad.  In some cases this may be the fact that you visited the site before and when you go back to the site it responds with "Hi Wendy, welcome back."  How did they know who you are?  Because of a cookie.
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by using a hidden trojan or virus on your computer. some cookies can  and are used for exchanging information from your computer to the host/ server. Also, if you had a scan done then they may be able to find your information.
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Computer cookies are file placed on your computer by websites you visit. They normally contain your preferences such as your login details. This help the website to identify you again when you visit them again. \nSo all of the use cookies have are for websites.
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Toool-> Ineternet Options-> Delete Cookies! that's it!
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websites use cookies to keep track of you. For example without cookies yahoo wouldn't know you logged in. When you delete cookies that tells your browser to forget everything and you will have to relog into all your sites. Sometimes cookies are also used to keep track of your activities online, which may be considered an invasion of privacy, but no personal information is disclosed.
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A cookie is specific to the browser. So if you use a webpage, then another person in the same browser the admin will not notice.\nIf you use a multi-user operating system where each user has to login with username/password then the browsers save the cookies in the user profile. In this case the cookie will be different for each person. The administrator won't know that they use the same computer.\n\nBut I should note: cookies don't collect information. A cookie is a set of text that the webserver gives to the browser to store on the computer. The browser doesn't add information. Next time you visit the website (to be precise anytime you surf a webpage there) the browser sents the cookie as well. So it's only information the website knew anyway.
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On your browser menu select TOOLS, the select INTERNET OPTIONS, on the window that opens then (general tab) select DELETE COOKIES
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cookies are little files that store information in your computer, example: you visited yahoo mail, once you type your id and password, when you click on remember me, yahoo will store the info in the cookie for easy access. most of the time cookies are used for web applications. \n\nwhy do you want to delete them? basically if you have too much cookies, your browser might slow down...\n\nand how to remove it, if your using internet explorer, go to tools>internet options>temporary internet files>delete cookies and your cookies are gone. :) \n\ndisk defragment tool is used to sort out your drive for maximum performance. :)
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It's just a link that you can click on to get to another web page. For instance: http://www.cookiecentral.com/content.phtml?area=4&id=10\n\nThat is a hyperlink. If you click on it, it will take you directly to that web page. This is a web page that talks about "cookies". So if you don't know what cookies are, go ahead and click on it and it will answer all questions about them.