20th June 2000

Even low-carbers can eat cookies without the guilt. Although, I'm not referring to the super sugary kind! To store account settings, user preferences, and other stuff, Web sites often offer your browser a cookie or two. You can turn them off and lose a little bit of surfing convenience, or you can leave them on and clean 'em out every so often. Are you afraid of losing something important by deleting them? Just export 'em before you get rid of 'em. How? In IE5, click 'Import And Export' (which sits in the File menu). A wizard will pop up; press the 'Next' button. Select 'Export Cookies' before pressing the next 'Next' button. Now, select the 'Export To A File' option. Figure out where you wanna store the 'cookies.txt' file, then move forward once more. You're finished! If anything "bad" happens after clearing the cookies from your PC, you can import the file you just exported. It's like NAFTA for geeks.