Can someone please tell me why when you select 'Delete Files' (When you want to delete cookies in the 'Internet Options' Menu, it doesn't delete all of the files and you have to 'View Files' and then select all and delete. Thankyou in Advance.

Originally posted by melbournian
Can someone please tell me why when you select 'Delete Files' (When you want to delete cookies in the 'Internet Options' Menu, it doesn't delete all of the files and you have to 'View Files' and then select all and delete. Thankyou in Advance.

I think that's what Microsoft call a 'feature'.

Are you ticking the box that says "Delete All Offline Content" ?

vidster, what's the difference? :) and what is supposed to be a Microsoft feature :confused:

'Delete all Offline Content'? Yes I think so. When I delete the files a lot get deleted but I am always left with some. What is 'Delete all offline content'? Is this in another Control Panel window? I am just intrigued as to how some cookies are prioritised and windows doesn't delete them. Just interested. Thanks for your help.

Originally posted by wendygs
vidster, what's the difference? :) and what is supposed to be a Microsoft feature :confused:
Hmmm.......How do i explain this :?
You see, when you browse the net Internet Explorer makes a 'copy' of the pages you view and stores them temporarily on your Hard Drive. This is what you see if you click on your 'History' button.
Clicking on it will give you an index of the pages you have viewed lately. This is called Offline Browsing - because the pages you are looking at are actually stored on your computer's Hard Drive and are not being taken from the Internet.

Offline browsing is handy if you want to go back and view a page that may change quite a lot (News channels etc).
Once you are viewing an 'Offline' page, just press 'Refresh' to jump to the most recent version of the page.

I hope you understand that. I'm off for a lie down now :hihi:

melbournian: I believe this is what you are referring to :wink:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158769/EN-US/

It's probably because some cookies are set to expire and some are "persistent". Just beause the cookie has expired, doesn't necessarily mean the file will be deleted though, it just means the website will ignore it or overwrite it next time you go back. I would imagine that by default IE only deletes the expired cookies, but it's a long time since I've used it and I'm only guessing.

Thanks or your help guys, it never ceases to amaze me the wealth of knowledge on this forum. Vidster - your explanation makes sense I will have a look at that - Thank you. tslogf74 - I was aware that cookies expired that would go some way to explain it - Thankyou. I have a thing about cookies and web history to me its like barnacles stuck to the bottom of your surf board.