Shell

Shell:

There is a quick way to access a number of folders with the use of shell:

For example if you open Run and type in the box without quotes “ shell: Cookies”

The cookies folder will immediately open, as will Desktop, etc.

However, if you are using Opera or Firefox as a browser this tip is of no value, reason being that they both store Cookies in a file named Cookies.Dat

I struggled to clean up my cookies and I was using [|__CCleaner__] which is an excellent free program. I could view all of the Cookies ( Hundreds of them ) and select which ones that I wished to retain. Now for the crunch. CCleaner did not delete the unwanted ones despite advertising that it would. I assumed quite incorrectly that it was because of Opera’s storage oddity.

After struggling for days and getting valuable advice I decided to update CCleaner to a more up to date version.

Lo and behold: that was where the problem lay. A glitch in CCleaner. After the update all the unwanted rubbish Cookies had been wiped of the disc.

Moral:- Keep up to date with latest versions of your programs. 