What is a cookie?

Question

I tried to login to myspace but it's not working.
It says I need to remove all cookies from my browser. What does this mean and how do I do it?

Answer 1

On your toolbar click tools, internet options, delete cookies, delete files & clear history, you need to delete them all for it to work properly.

Answer 2

A cookie is a small text file written to your computer by a website, they usually contain information like your name, so that the website can read it back and say "Hello Amanda", another common thing is to write your timezone to a cookie to put the time on your site (a practice I never really understood since there's a clock on the computer already).

Tools>internet options>Privacy Tab, then moving the slider to "medium" should be enough to allow the appropriate cookies through.

You can generally only access cookies written by your domain, but a company called DoubleClick has found an ingenius (like infamous;-)) way to get around that problem by writting a pixel from their servers onto websites, they use it to gather a wide array of information and create profiles, but they don't use names; however, they did try to acquire a company last year that would let them match names to profiles.

Answer 3

Cookies are webpages, or useless files. When cookies are not deleted they can make your computer very slow.

Ok, here are the steps to removing them:
1. Tools
2.internet Options
3. ( A window should pop up, and there should be something that says "Browsing History". Browsing History contains cookies.) Click Delete...


And there ya go!

Answer 4

Cookies are messages that web servers pass to your web browser when you visit Internet sites. You can remove them by going to:

1. Tools
2. Internet Options
3. Delete Cookies

You may need to allow cookies to access myspace. You can change your security settings in this same panel. I hope this helps!

Answer 5

if you wanna remove cookies from your browser:
in internet explorer go to tools; internet options; on the general tab clear cache and cookies.
Cookie is usually a text file that contain information about a website, the main purpose of the cookie is to help load websites faster.

Answer 6

cookies are like a file that says were u have been and if there is any info that the particular site needs to know

when myspace does that, on Internet Explorer, go to tools, internet options, privacy and put it on medium, so it will let u log in easier

Answer 7

Cookies are ways to track your usage against a website, so it remembers you when you next visit.

To clean up, from Internet Explorer, click TOOLS / Internet Options and choose delete cookies

Answer 8

1. click tools
2. internet options
3. look at browsing history and click delete

Answer 9

A cookie is a food

Answer 10

I think it's like spam or a virus on your computer.