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- Cookie files on your computer, while not edible, can still be considered a treat, as they help streamline and personalize your Internet search habits. Generally cookies are enabled on most browsers by default, but they could've been disabled in some cases. This article will show you how to enable cookies on your browser.
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Cookie Enabling Tips
- Cookies are helpful, although some people distrust them.
- Cookies are small text files.
- Cookies are placed on your computer by websites.
- Cookies help websites remember who you are and how they can help you.
- Each browser has different requirements for enabling cookies.
- You can view and delete cookies on your computer.
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About Cookies
- Computer cookies were named after fortune cookies, due to the hidden information contained inside of them.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies? There are two types of computer cookies: temporary and permanent.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
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Temporary Cookies
- Temporary cookies, sometimes called session cookies because they are used for only one session, are stored in your browser's memory rather than your computer hard drive and are deleted from memory as soon as you close your browser.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
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Permanent Cookies
- Permanent cookies are placed on your computer's hard drive by the websites you visit, and are permanently kept there unless you manually delete them.Wise Geek: What Are Computer Cookies?
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How Cookies Work
- A cookie is not a program. It is simple text file, containing user information, created by a website and stored on a user's computer.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work When the user visits the website, the cookie allows the website to retrieve information about the user's previous visit to the website.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- This is how a computer cookie works:
- You type in a website address such as www.eBay.com. The browser you are using will then send a message to eBay's server, asking it for its home page.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- While the browser is "talking" to eBay's server, it is also looking on your computer for any cookie files that eBay has placed there. If it finds any eBay cookie files, it will send the IDs of the files to eBay's server.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- Next, eBay will respond to your server in one of two ways:How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- If your server did not send any cookies because you did not have any, the server will think that you have not visited eBay before.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -The eBay server will create an ID for you (and keep a matching one) and send it back to your computer in the answer to your server.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -Your computer will store it on your hard disk. This is the cookie data.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- If your server did send some eBay cookie files, because you have visited eBay in the past and it has deposited cookies on your computer, eBay will match the ID of the cookies with the ID of your data stored at eBay.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
- -Thus loading up your preferences or password automatically (depending on what you have allowed eBay to do in the past).
- If your server did not send any cookies because you did not have any, the server will think that you have not visited eBay before.How Stuff Works: How Internet Cookies Work
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How to View Your Cookies
- The quickest and easiest way to find all the cookie data on your computer is to use the Find command.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find Set it to search all the drives on your computer for cookie.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
- You will probably end up with both files and folders named cookies. This is normal.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
- Individual files will probably be named cookies.txt.Computer Security: Cookies: How to Find
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How to Enable Cookies on Mozilla Firefox
- Open the Tools menu.Google: Cookies
- Click on Options.Google: Cookies
- Click on the Privacy icon in the left panel.Google: Cookies
- Check the box next to Allow sites to set cookies.Google: Cookies
- Click on OK to save your changes.Google: Cookies
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How to Enable Cookies on Netscape
- Go to the Edit menu.Google: Cookies
- Select Preferences.Google: Cookies
- Go to the Advanced category.Google: Cookies
- Find the Cookies section.Google: Cookies
- Select Accept all Cookies.Google: Cookies
- Click OK.Google: Cookies
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How to Enable Cookies on Explorer 6.0 or newer
- Go to the Tools menu.Google: Cookies
- Click on Internet Options.Google: Cookies
- Click on the tab marked Security.Google: Cookies
- Click on the Custom Level link.Google: Cookies
- Scroll down until you see the Cookies section.Google: Cookies
- Find where it says Allow cookies that are stored on your computer and set it to Enable.Google: Cookies
- Find where it says Allow per-session cookies and set it to Enable.Google: Cookies
- Click OK.Google: Cookies
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How to Remove Cookies from Your PC
- Some people may not be comfortable with the idea of servers placing cookies on their computer without their knowledge. If this is the case for you, there is a way to remove the cookie files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Click on My Computer.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Double-click the C drive.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Double-click the Windows folder.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Click Show Files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Scroll down until you see the folder named Temporary Internet Files.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Look for the files that are named Cookie.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Right click on the file and select Delete.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
- Alternately, if you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 or newer as your browser, you can remove your cookies in one easy step by clicking on the Tools menu, choosing Internet Options and clicking on Delete Cookies.RiverSongs: Removing Cookies
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Conclusion
- Computer cookies are small text files which are automatically downloaded onto your computer when you visit certain websites.All About Cookies: FAQs Cookies help websites recognize repeat visitors and improve services to those visitors.All About Cookies: FAQs
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