With current web technologies and companies like Facebook being caught looking into your cookies and how you surf the Internet. An important step to take for both device performance and protection of your privacy is to clear away your cookies and temporary Internet Files.
One way to prevent companies from researching where you go on the Internet and what you look at is to run your browser its unique privacy mode. For Internet Explorer, they call it In Private Browsing. You can go into this mode by selecting the Safety pull-down menu and choosing InPrivate Browsing.
Additionally, you can cut back on the amount of Internet Temporary Files and Cookies that live on your system by choosing to clear these associated files living on your machine / mobile device. To do this in Windows Internet Explorer:
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Select Tools > Safety > Delete browsing history…/.
Make sure to uncheck Preserve Favorites website data and check both Temporary Internet Files and Cookies then click Delete.
You will get a confirmation at the bottom of the window once it has successfully cleared your cache and cookies.
Close ALL applications and reboot your system to make sure you do not have any instances of Internet Explorer running.
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If you’re having trouble with a website, sometimes clearing your Internet Explorer temporary Internet files can help:
Select Tools & Internet Options.
Click on the General tab and then the Delete… button.
Make sure to uncheck Preserve Favorites website data and check both Temporary Internet Files and Cookies then click Delete.
Close ALL open applications and reboot your computer to insure you do not have any instances of Internet Explorer running.
