Bill H -

They're splattered all over the place in WinXP. If you always log onto your machine with the same "user identity" and do all your surfing with that log-in, they will normally be only in the Documents and Settings\username\Cookies, and in "Temporary Internet Files" for that user.

The places where they show up are actually pretty "logical," but until you've poked into all the places to confirm that you know where they're going on your machine it's pretty easy to delete them one place and leave some in the place or two that you didn't check out.

IE "Tools - Internet Options" has two buttons: "Delete Cookies" and "Delete Temporary Internet Files." If you use these two buttons, they'll generally clean out everything for the user id that's logged on; but that doesn't give you the option of keeping the few cookies you may actually want.

Actually, if you use Windows Explorer and search from C:\, it should show you all of the places named "cookies" or all of the places named "Temporary" (Generally, only a few places, including "Temporary Internet Files," spell it out. Most other places just abbreviate "Temp.") You probably do need to turn on the click boxes in search to "search system files" and "search hidden files." Until you've determined that on your setup the way you use it there are only one or two places where you actually find them, you should check out all the possibilities, at least once.

John