Nil wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2010, "Sue J Thomas" <sueastro@optonline.net> wrote in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>
>> Or....I use PurgeIE or PurgeFox which easily lets you keep the
>> needed cookies.
>> www.purgie.com
>
> CCleaner has a similar feature.
While you can run CCleaner manually and even add it as an event in Task
Scheduler to run are regular intervals (this is how I use it), it won't do
the cleanup when you exit the web browser. Well, not unless you use a batch
file to run the web browser and upon its exit then the next command in the
batch file is to run CCleaner. Because web browsers are often loaded as
child processes, like clicking on a link inside an e-mail client, the batch
file would not get used (so there would be no immediate cleanup after
exiting that child instance of the web browser).
If you don't want cookies lingering around after you exit the web browser,
you need to use cleanup features already present in the web browser or use
an add-on. (I used to recommend IE7Pro but way too many of its features
won't work under IE8, workarounds for some folks won't work for other users,
and it causes IE8 to crash far too often). While I haven't found good free
add-ons for IE8 to provide cookie management beyond what IE8 already has, I
suspect there are more choices for Firefox. Extensions for Chrome is new as
of v4 and I haven't bothered to get acquainted with them for Chrome (I use
Chrome but keep it a clean install mostly to check for HTML compatibility
and to avoid having to use browser-specific tests or code).