Cookies are small text files stored on a computer when a user browses a website, which can take up a lot of drive space if not cleaned up in time. In this article, we will introduce some effective ways to clean up cookies.
"Hi guys, I've been using my browser lately with slow speed, but I don't know why. According to my friend's analysis, it may be caused by too many cookies in the browser. How do I clean out my cookies on Windows 10? Thank you for your help."
Cookies are small text files created when a PC user browses a website, including session cookies, persistent cookies, security cookies, etc. They're usually stored on your computer after you enter a website and helps you enter as quickly as possible the next time you browse the same web page.
However, when there're too many cookies, it will lead to poor browser performance and low disk space on PC. Privacy concerns also need to be taken seriously, as these cookies may track the websites you visit. Therefore, cleaning out cookies on PC regularly is quite necessary, you can learn from the methods below to delete cookies.
In order to ensure the normal operation of the browser, it is unavoidable to periodically clean up the cookies. Please refer to below to clean out cookies on Windows 10 in three common browsers.
Please follow the steps below to delete cookies on Chrome
Step 1. Click the upright three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the home page, then click "More Tools" and "Clear Browsing Data" in turn.
Step 2. In the new page, you can select "Browsing history", "Cookies and other site data" and "cached images and files". (In the drop-down list, the time can be selected.)
Step 3. Click on "Clear Data" to remove all checked items.
The simple and quick way to delete cookies from Microsoft Edge is as follows:
Step 1. Click the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the web page, then click "Settings".
Step 2. Find and click "Cookies and Site Permissions" in Settings.
Step 3. Click "Manage and delete cookies and site data" to go to View "All cookies and site data" for the next step.
The steps to delete cookies on Firefox are a bit different:
Step 1. Click the three-horizontal icon in the upper right corner of the home page, and then click "Settings".
Step 2. Click "Privacy & Security" on the Settings page.
Step 3. Find "Cookies and Site Data", click "Clear Data".
As you can see from the above, we need to use different steps to clear cookies for different browsers. Is there any way to quickly clear cookies and cache on the PC once and for all? Luckily, AOMEI Partition Assistant for Cleanup, an easy PC cleaner perfectly fits your request.
Through the "PC Cleaner" function, it can not only perform the task of thoroughly scanning and cleaning out cookies on computer, but also have the "super power" of digging out all junk files on the computer. This user-friendly tool also sorts and arranges junk files after the scan is complete, making it easier for you to select the files you want to delete.
Apart from cleaning up your computer, this versatile tool also has popular functions such as wipe hard drive, merge partitions, resize partition and format partition, which can effectively solve common computer problems.
Let's see how it works to clean out cookies on Windows 10.
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Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant for Cleanup. Click the "Clean Junk Files" tab.
Step 2. Click the "Scan Now" button to start the process of scanning junk files.
Step 3. After the scan process is finished. All system junk files (including recycle bin files, temporary files, log files, invalid shortcuts, and so on) and registry junk files (including DLL registry, system registry, and program registry) will be displayed.
Step 4. You can also click the button behind to view the junk files details.
Step 5. And, you can click the button behind to locate the file.
Step 6. By default, the program will select some junk files to clean up, for example, temporary files, log files, and so on. You can also manually check to select more or uncheck to deselect fewer listed junk files. Or, click "Select All" to select all junk files to clean up if you need to clean up all.
After selecting junk files that are not needed anymore, you can click the "Clean Now"button to start the cleanup.
Step 7. The process of the cleanup might take time, and the selected files will be cleaned up. After the process is finished, you will get a cleanup completed window displaying how many files you have cleaned and not yet cleaned.
In this tutorial, we shared reasons and different methods on cleaning out cookies on PC. In addition, we also share a practical PC Cleaner. If you want to clean up your Windows Server PC, don't miss the Server Edition.
