Cleaning Cookies and Cache Windows 95/98/ME

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This tutorial is for Windows98, there is another for Windows XP, honestly any other version of Windows, I don't know about them, but if need be can call my computer guy to give me the answer.

1.  Close down your browser
2. Click on My computer on your desktop
3. Click on (C:) Drive
4. Click on Windows 
5. You may need to then click on Show all files
6. Click on Temporary Internet Files
7. Go to Menu bar and choose Edit then Select All
8. Go back to Menu bar and choose File then Delete
9. In your address bar it should say C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files you want to add to that \Content.IE5 and hit go
10. Delete all files and folders you see in there. You might get an error message that you can't delete something, it is because you have a browser window open, close it down.
11. Go back to Menu bar and choose Go then Up One Level
12. Delete all but the Content.IE5 folder if it is visible to you
13. Go back to menu bar and choose Go then Up One Level
14. Click on History folder
15. Go to Menu bar and choose Edit then Select All
16. Go back to Menu bar and choose File then Delete
17. Go back to Menu bar and choose Go then Up One Level
18. Click on the Temp folder
19. Go to Menu bar and choose Edit then Select All
20. Go back to Menu bar and choose File then Delete
21. Go back to Menu bar and choose Go then Up One Level
22. Click on the Downloaded Program Files

You can do two things with the three circled files, either delete the them entirely or right click on them individually and choose update. I highly recommend deleting them and reinstalling. If you are having chat problems, definitely delete.

Reboot your computer.

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