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Cookies are retained even after explicit delete in IE8

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 202610301 views
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Problem

I need to be able to delete my entire browsing history in IE8. Even after explicitly invoking the option of clearing browsing history from within IE8, I notice some cookies and files do not get deleted from the Temporary Internet Files folder.

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Fix for: Cookies are retained even after explicit delete in IE8

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instead of going to tools -> internet options -> delete... it seems IE has a 'feature' to save data for your frequent websites, so deleting cookies does not always delete cookies. If you instead go to Tools -> Delete Browsing History -> uncheck 'Pre…

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