What are cookies used for?

Websites use cookies to offer a personalized experience to users and to gather information about website use. Many websites also use cookies to store information that provides a consistent experience between sections of the site, such as a shopping cart or customized pages. With a trusted website, cookies can enrich your experience by allowing the site to learn your preferences or allowing you to skip having to sign in every time you go to the website.

How to Delete Cookies?

To delete cookies, follow these steps:

1. Click to open Internet Explorer.

2. Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.

3. On the General tab, under Browsing history, click Delete.

4. Select the Cookies check box, and then click Delete if it isn't already checked. Clear or select check boxes for any other options you also want to delete. If you want to keep cookies for your saved favorites, select the Preserve Favorites website data check box.

Note: Deleting all cookies might cause some WebPages to work incorrectly.

What are Temporary Cookies?
Temporary cookies (or session cookies) are removed from your computer after you close Internet Explorer. Websites use them to store temporary information, such as items in your shopping cart.

What are Persistent Cookies?
Persistent cookies (or saved cookies) remain on your computer after you close Internet Explorer. Websites use them to store information, such as your sign-in name and password, so that you don't have to sign in each time you go to a particular site. Persistent cookies can remain on your computer for days, months, or even years.

What are First Party Cookies?
First-party cookies come from the website that you're viewing and can be either persistent or temporary. Websites might use these cookies to store information that they'll reuse the next time you go to that site.

What are Third Party Cookies?
Third-party cookies come from other websites' advertisements (such as pop-up or banner ads) on the website that you're viewing. Websites might use these cookies to track your web use for marketing purposes.

How to Boost your Computer Speed

Generally computers develop many problems when they used for long time. One of such problem is in computer speed because stack of temporary files and internet files, fragmented data on hard disk and too many start up programs. To improve the computer speed, just follow the steps:

Delete internet and temporary files
These files are created while you operate the computer and using internet, most of these files are not important to system. So if you keep these files for a long time they will create havoc in computer speed. To delete the files:

1.Open ‘My Computer’ and click right mouse button on ‘Local C Drive’
2.Click on ‘Properties’ in the shortcut menu.
3.In the ‘Properties’ window ‘General’ tab you will find a ‘Disk cleanup’ button, just press the ‘Disk Cleanup’ button.
4.Then it displays a message window click ‘OK’ button to continue deleting temporary files from computer.

Perform Disk Derangement
When a computer used for a long time the data on hard disk will be scattered and it makes the system to find data too much time. So to overcome this problem just do the steps:

1.Open ‘My Computer’ and click right mouse button on ‘Local C Drive’
2.Click on ‘Properties’ in the shortcut menu.
3.In the ‘Properties’ window select ‘Tools’ tab.
4.Click on ‘Defragment now’ button.

Then system starts defragmenting your computer, it may take time depending on the size of your hard disk and no. of files.

Note: Do this Disk Derangement once in 15 days.

Disable Programs in Start up
You might have installed too many programs on your computer and most of the software programs assign automatically to start up. In this case opening too many programs at start up the system get slow down and take more time than usual. To get rid of this problem follow the steps:

1.Type ‘MSCONFIG’ in the run command window or command prompt C:>MSCONFIG then press Enter key.
2.In ‘General’ tab select the third option ‘Selective Startup’.
3.Click mouse on ‘Startup’ tab and remove the selection of those unnecessary programs from the list.
4.Then click ‘Apply’ button and ‘OK’ button.

Now Restart your computer and check the difference, you will be happy now with the performance of your computer.

Adware and Spyware

Adware is 'freeware', whereby ads are embedded in the program. These ads will show up whenever user opens the program. Most adware authors provide the free version with ads and a registered version whereby the ads are disabled. As such, the users have the choice, either to use the freeware with ads served or
purchase the registered version.

Spyware, as the name suggest is the software installed on user’s computer which is constantly sending user information to the mother website.

Spyware, however, is published as 'freeware' or as 'adware', but the fact that an analysis and tracking program (the 'spyware' agent, which reports user’s activities to the advertising providers' web site for storage and analysis) is also installed on user’s system when a user install this so-called 'freeware', and this is usually not mentioned. Even though the name may indicate so, spyware is not an illegal type of software. But what the adware and spyware providers do with the collected information and what they're going to 'feed' the user with, is beyond his control. And in some cases it all happens without the user’s consent.