ID: Q154360
The information in this article applies to:
When you access a Web page using Internet Explorer, you may receive the following message:
Internet Explorer 5:
Security Alert
To provide a more personalized browsing experience, will you allow
this Web site to save a small file (called a cookie) on your computer?
This file can only be used by this Web site.
If you click Yes, the Web site will save a file
on your computer. If you click No, the current Web
page may not display correctly.
Security Alert
In order to provide a more personalized browsing experience,
will you allow this Web site to put information on your computer?
If you click Yes, the Web site will save a file
on your computer. If you click No, the current Web
page may not display correctly.
Security Alert
You have received a "cookie" (Internet information stored on your
computer) from <site you are visiting>
The contents are:
30E1DDB374A59FB9F081B4EAD691ACAO
It expires on <date of expiration decided by Web author>
Do you want to accept it? If you click No, the page you are trying to
view may not be displayed correctly.
You have Internet Explorer set to warn you before accepting cookies.
To resolve this problem, follow the steps in the appropriate section below:
Click Yes to accept the cookie or No to reject the cookie from this Web site. If you want to always accept cookies from any Web site without being prompted, click the "In the future, do not show this warning" check box to select it. You can also click More Info to see the cookie information.
You can turn off this cookie prompt by following these steps:
1. In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the Tools menu, and
then click the Security tab.
3. Under Cookies, click either Disable or Enable.
4. Click OK, and then click OK.
Click Yes to accept the cookie or No to reject the cookie from this Web site. If you want to always accept cookies from any Web site without being prompted, click the "In the future, do not show this warning" check box to select it. You can also click More Info to see the cookie information.
You can turn off this cookie prompt by following these steps:
1. In Internet Explorer, click Internet Options on the View menu, and then
click the Advanced tab.
- Always Accept Cookies
- Prompt Before Accepting Cookies
- Disable All Cookie Use
NOTE: The cookie setting you choose also affects Outlook Express. To
stop receiving cookies in Outlook Express, click Disable All Cookie
Use.
To disable cookie warnings, follow these steps:
1. In Internet Explorer, click Options on the View menu, and then click
the Advanced tab.
3. Click OK, and then click OK again.
Cookies are bits of information written to your computer about you and your visits to Web pages. They can include such information as:
The MSN, The Microsoft Network, custom page is an example of a large cookie. After you select the options you want for your page, the server writes that information to your cookie to retrieve when you visit the page later.
If you visit a site that features a "shopping cart" of items you wish to purchase, a cookie can keep track of what you put in the cart. If you need to leave and come back later, your shopping cart should be as you left it. This keeps you from having to start over on the page.
A webmaster can give you a cookie to track repeat visits to a page.
Cookies are written to the Windows\Cookies folder in a file named <Username>.txt. The name of the file can vary with the name of the current user, who the cookie was written for, and the different pages offering cookies to your computer.
Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. On the View menu, click Options or Internet Options.
2. On the General tab, click Settings.
3. Click View Files.
Internet Explorer 3.x:
1. On the View menu, click Options.
2. On the Advanced tab, click View Files.
Accepting a cookie does not give a Web site access to your computer or any personal information about you (including e-mail address), other than what you specified in the customized settings for that Web site (including any information you typed into forms on the Web site). Cookies can be read only by the server that set the cookie.
For information about cookies on Microsoft's Web site (www.microsoft.com), please view the following Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/regwiz/include/cookies.htm
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Platform : WINDOWSLast Reviewed: March 21, 1999