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bigbet1234 · Apr 16, 2005

I have a Dell Latitude CPI Laptop, it has windows 98 on it.

Does anyone know how to delete all the cookies and every other memory I have in the computer? Like clear passwords, and everything else?

I am wanting to sell the computer.

Thanks,

BB

CHOPTALK · Apr 16, 2005

If you still have your original system restore disk you bought with your computer, just simply reinstall everything, and your computer will be just like it was when you bought it.

bigbet1234 · Apr 16, 2005

dont have it, i just need to clear all the usernames that are locked in when i open up a page. anyone know how to do that?

BB

choptalk said:
If you still have your original system restore disk you bought with your computer, just simply reinstall everything, and your computer will be just like it was when you bought it.

RPM · Apr 16, 2005

if you go to the internet options tab and select clear cookies, it should take care of that.

but your computer will always have stuff on it unless you buy one of those hard drive erasers...

bigbet1234 · Apr 16, 2005

Tired the clear cookies, but there is not a tab for that, just delete files(offline) which i did, but still there

RPM said:
if you go to the internet options tab and select clear cookies, it should take care of that.

but your computer will always have stuff on it unless you buy one of those hard drive erasers...

bigbet1234 · Apr 16, 2005

also, does anyone know how to find out all your systems features, space, rams, etc?

thanks

BB

IDENTITY · Apr 16, 2005

save yourself the heartache and for 100 bucks a computer guy will take care of it in no time....

CHOPTALK · Apr 16, 2005

bigbet1234 said:
also, does anyone know how to find out all your systems features, space, rams, etc?

thanks

BB

That would be your My Computer icon.

RPM · Apr 16, 2005

open internet explorer, then click tools. half way down the screen you will see "delete cookies"

bigbet1234 · Apr 16, 2005

did that already, there is no cookies button on this *****y computer, never had this kind of problem before

RPM said:
open internet explorer, then click tools. half way down the screen you will see "delete cookies"

TTinCO · Apr 16, 2005

Bigbet, to do it right and completely protect yourself, you really ought to reformat the hard drive. Unless you know what you are doing, it's pretty tough to delete all of your info off the machine. There are a lot of places that the info may reside-many of which can be very difficult to find.

Wipe it clean, and have nothing to worry about.

FatTony · Apr 16, 2005

bigbet1234 said:
did that already, there is no cookies button on this *****y computer, never had this kind of problem before

Windows 98 doesn't have a tab for that. I forgot the tabs....delete files.....?

FatTony · Apr 16, 2005

TTinCO said:
Bigbet, to do it right and completely protect yourself, you really ought to reformat the hard drive. Unless you know what you are doing, it's pretty tough to delete all of your info off the machine. There are a lot of places that the info may reside-many of which can be very difficult to find.

Wipe it clean, and have nothing to worry about.

2nd that.

PixWinns · Apr 16, 2005

Bigbet,

The following link is for a nice software that I'm happy with and could help you.

http://www.east-tec.com/

Enjoy,

1cheater · Apr 16, 2005

Formatt WILL NOT render the files unrecoverable, you need to get a program designed for this http://www.ontrack.com/dataeraser/ is a good one...

Below is the one you want :

<TABLE class=standard cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=4 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR vAlign=top><TD vAlign=top>http://www.ontrack.com/dataeraser/DataEraser™ Personal 2.02 - Individual Edition
Licensed per computer. Intended for private or home use on one computer.
product detail
Size 1.13Mb</TD><TD vAlign=center>All systems supported</TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle>$29.95

</TD><TD vAlign=center align=middle>$29.95

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

1cheater · Apr 16, 2005

The East-Tec software above will not wipe your Harddrive, it's more for those who are keeping there computer and don't want other's to see what's there...

Doug · Apr 16, 2005

use a sledgehammer ! Rent a boat throw remains to bottom of ocean.

Whoson1st · Apr 16, 2005

To be certain that ALL the cookies are gone, here is what I do.

Go to the Start Menu
Go to Find Files or Folders and click on that.
Another box will open
Under Named type "cookies" (without the quotation marks)
A list will open of all the cookies--You can hit at top of screen EDIT
Hit Select All
Hit Delete.

GONE!

wolfie_cr · Apr 16, 2005

You can do several things depending on how paranoid you are (.....I typically remove the harddrive and remove the platers and then beat the @#$@#$ out of them with a geologist hammer.......I simply can't take any risk of information leaks)

deleting cookies here and there etc might do the trick if you have never stored something REALLY important in the computer and these days chances are you DID store something really important

Reformatting and reinstallating the operating system will minimize problems in 99.9% of the cases

If you want an extra degree of confidence download the program here http://dban.sourceforge.net/ (its free)

you either make a bootable floppy or a bootable cd with it

once you have made it you will boot the computer from the floppy/CD and then the program will take care of completely writting random info to the harddrive (you can configure the number of passes)....

Thats the only REAL way to make sure noone can recover the info, that is, make sure that the harddrive is completely rewritten with useless info over and over

one9 · Apr 16, 2005

Ask yourself if the few hundred bucks profit is worth it to you considering the usage and info on the pc..?

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