Clean Your Computer
I was talking with actor Mike Lutz today. He was having problems logging into the blog area of Cowboy Smoke. We went back and forth through email and couldn’t find the problem. He just couldn’t log in. However, I could log in under his account fine. We finally spoke by phone and I walked him through the process, only to find out we still couldn’t get him logged in. I then thought that perhaps the problem had to do with a browser cookie. I figured if we cleaned his “cache” it would help. I talked him through the process on the phone and once the old cookies were deleted, he was able to log in fine!
Since some of you may have no idea what I am talking about, read on…
Browser cookies, images, and webpage files are stored on people’s computers by websites they visit in their “temporary internet files” or “cache.” If someone surfs the internet a lot and visits many websites they may notice their computer getting “slower.” This is due to the “temporary internet files” getting too full and taking up valuable space on the hard drive. Sometimes browser cookie files can be corrupted or not updated correctly, which will cause problems logging into membership sites. Periodically, everyone needs to clean out these files to improve their internet browsing.
Here are the steps for you to clear your “temporary internet files” …
* In the Internet Explorer Browser
Step 1 - See the top of the browser window where it says FILE | EDIT | VIEW | FAVORITES | TOOLS | HELP ? Click on TOOLS
Step 2 - On the drop down menu in the TOOLS area, click on INTERNET OPTIONS
Step 3 - Delete Cookies Button. NOTE: When you delete the cookies, you will have to type in your membership username and password again for any membership sites that you have joined. This button deletes all cookies that remembered that information for you.
Step 4 - Delete Files Button. NOTE: When you empty these files, you delete images and files from websites you have visited in the past. Those files will be reloaded on your computer when you visit the website again. This isn’t a bad thing unless you get too many of these types of files. Having the files on your computer helps reduce your load time for frequently visited sites.
Step 5 - Settings Button and then the “View Files” Button. NOTE: If you only want to delete CERTAIN files from your “temporary internet files” folder, you can click this button to find them and delete them individually.
In this settings area, you can also set the amount of disk space you want these types of files to use by moving the bar and changing the disk space megabytes.
There may be different ways to clean your “cache” through other internet browsers which you can search Google to find the directions for. There is another way to get access to your “temporary internet files” through your C drive folders as well, but I don’t want to go into that right now and possibly confuse anyone.
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Comments: 1.
Thanks again Wendy for yet another cool computer tip.
This is why your sights ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
They are so helpful in every day life.
Stephanie
Comment by Stephanie — 6/4/2006 @ 2:55 pm
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Thank you for the information. I will have to do this on my computer. I had no idea about this as I have learned by myself on what I know on the computer or what others have sent me. And I will be sure to let others know. Thanks ever so much.
Comment by Martha — 6/5/2006 @ 8:40 am
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Wendy, this little trick has often kept my PC humming nicely.
Cleaning the temp files also helps as I have been told by my cable company, when calling them regarding slow connection, that, often times, its one cookie not coping well with the other. So on their suggestion, as they knew service in the area was running fine, I cleaned my temp files and they were right, my slow connection went back to being super fast.
Comment by Barbara (Xerraire) — 6/6/2006 @ 7:10 am
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Another usefull cleaning up would be to hit the start button, put curser over find, click files or folders.
type:”*.TMP” in the named field (without the quotation marks) then type on the location line: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
Delete all except for the current date.
Comment by Heather Howie — 6/6/2006 @ 8:14 pm