This option allows you to make sure certain cookies are not deleted from your system when/if the cookie folder(s) are cleaned out. Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer browser (version 4 and upwards) only.

Cookies are small files created by some web sites that you visit and stored on your computer. A cookie can be read back by the site which made it (but not other sites), for example to see which areas of the site you have visited, what you have purchased, or to remember login/membership details. Some people see cookies as a means for web sites to 'spy' on visitors, compromising privacy.

The type of cookies which remember membership details are useful merely because you don't have to keep entering your membership details when you return to the site in question. You may wish to save these and other cookies from being deleted when cleaning Internet Explorer's cookie folders with CD2K3.

Note: Although you can turn off and block cookies with Internet Explorer, some sites cannot be navigated unless cookies are accepted.


Path - Cookies
Clean Disk 2003 will locate the currently logged user cookies. 

Cookies from the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) browser are stored in standard locations, locations which may vary depending on the browser version.
 


Current IE cookies
This window lists the cookies created by Microsoft Internet Explorer found in the currently logged user cookie path. The size (in bytes), date/time and path of the cookie are also shown. You can also view the contents of each cookie file by double-clicking on the cookie file, or by highlighting a cookie file and clicking on the "view" button.

Add
Use the "Add" button between the 'current' and 'keep' windows to add cookies to the 'keep' list if desired.

Beneath the current IE cookies window are the following buttons:

Delete
This will delete the currently highlighted cookie files.

View
Press this button to view the actual contents of a highlighted cookie. You can find out what information web sites have stored on your computer, and also decide if you wish to keep the cookie in question.


Refresh
This button will refresh the display, to account for any cookies which have arrived (if you are online - but we recommend you do not perform any cleaning while online), or any cookies which have expired. 
 


IE cookies to keep
This window lists the cookies you have decided to keep. To add a cookie file to the list, select the cookie from the "Current IE cookies" window and click on the right pointing arrow between the windows.

Reset
Click this button to remove ALL cookies from the keep list.

Remove
Click this button to remove the currently highlighted cookie from the keep list.