Crush! Kill!! Destroy!!!

Back in those glorious days of Windows XP, I knew how to get into the Cookies file and every few days (or oftener), I would open the file and have a little "dung-out," deleting files that I'd accumulated while surfing. I could do so selectively, deleting the ones I know are going to keep interrupting me with ads, and others whose presence makes me suspicious. But keeping the ones I want, such as Mudcat, and Amazon, and a couple of others, so I don't have to sign in every time, they recognize me.

Mourning the death of a couple of computers since then, and having been given a demonstrating (by a friend who is a Microsoft employee) of Windows 8—and noting that she didn't really seem to like it much—I managed to have my most recent laptop (Acer—custom assembled at a local shop) loaded with Windows 7.

I don't like it as well as XP, but I manage to get along with it okay.

But—!

I am plagued by hordes of pop-up ads practically before I get the damned thing turned on in the morning!! And all the bloody day long!

HE-E-E-E-E-LP!!!!

Do any of our resident techie geniuses (genii?) know how, using Windows 7, I can get into the Cookies file and give it a good, but selective hosing out? I will bless you all my days!!

(I'll bet Bill Gates secretly uses an Apple! A good, brisk dope-slap on the back of his head that makes his hair fly and knocks his glasses off is in order.)

Don Firth