How to Deleteold cookies and documents?? help

“Im selling my old pc but wanna get rid of old cookies and documents...Its windows 95 and I went to the cookies folder but it wont let me delete the entire contents at once-there are 2000 cookies in it!!!!How do i do this in one click?thanx”

“Hold down the control button when you click on one cookie then allow the mouse to travel down the list as it selects all or some of the cookies. Then delete them”

“select all?”

“says access is denied when i try top delete them all...says 'make sure disk is not full or write protected'”

“Highlight all, then try holding shift and press the delete key. Note: They won't go to recycle bin”

“Also, try dumping your temp internet files first, since there are cookie pointers in there”

“It won't let you delete something that is in-use, if you select all of them at once, some may still be in use, which is why you're getting that message. Try to select / delete them in chunks, 50 or so files at a time. You can also sort on "Last Access Date", and then delete those you haven't visited for awhile. This might speed up the process considerably.”

“Uh if your selling the pc you should reformat the drive and re-install the os from scratch. Its the only way to get rid of everything incriminating...

ps if its really incriminating install a new hard drive and destroy the old one.”

“that'll teach ya to surf porn on the computer when your wife's asleep....


select all”

“How do you destroy a hard drive? With a sledge hammer?”

“The CIA recommends sulfuric or nitric acid bath, until the hard drive is completely dissolved. If I wanted to completely destroy a hard drive, so that it could never be read again, I'd disassemble it, take the platters, and rinse or immerse them in some strong acid until all the oxide had been removed, then I'd cut them into little pieces.”

“If cia level isnt needed just bending them or marring the surface will put it beyond reach of most retrival equipment”

“cuttin torch?”

“extreme but fun :}”

“Isn't there a way to do this through DOS. I heard a radio program where they were talking about accessing files through the computer's disc operating system.”

“There should be....

I know what the dos prompt is to delete temp internet files and history, but not cookies”