Cleaning Out Cookies on PC - Full Guide

How do I clean out my cookies on Windows 10?

What is cookies?

Cookies are small text files created when a PC user browses a website, including session cookies, persistent cookies, security cookies, etc. They're usually stored on your computer after you enter a website and helps you enter as quickly as possible the next time you browse the same web page.

However, when there're too many cookies, it will lead to poor browser performance and low disk space on PC. Privacy concerns also need to be taken seriously, as these cookies may track the websites you visit. Therefore, cleaning out cookies on PC regularly is quite necessary, you can learn from the methods below to delete cookies.

How to delete cookies from your PC

In order to ensure the normal operation of the browser, it is unavoidable to periodically clean up the cookies. Please refer to below to clean out cookies on Windows 10 in three common browsers.

│Case 1. Clean up cookies from Chrome

Please follow the steps below to delete cookies on Chrome

Step 1. Click the upright three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the home page, then click "More Tools" and "Clear Browsing Data" in turn.

Step 2. In the new page, you can select "Browsing history", "Cookies and other site data" and "cached images and files". (In the drop-down list, the time can be selected.)

Step 3. Click on "Clear Data" to remove all checked items.

│Case 2. Clean up cookies from Microsoft Edge

The simple and quick way to delete cookies from Microsoft Edge is as follows:

Step 1. Click the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the web page, then click "Settings".

Step 2. Find and click "Cookies and Site Permissions" in Settings.

Step 3. Click "Manage and delete cookies and site data" to go to View "All cookies and site data" for the next step.

│Case 3. Clean up cookies from Firefox

The steps to delete cookies on Firefox are a bit different:

Step 1. Click the three-horizontal icon in the upper right corner of the home page, and then click "Settings".

Step 2. Click "Privacy & Security" on the Settings page.

Step 3. Find "Cookies and Site Data", click "Clear Data".

Clean up cookies via an excellent PC cleanup expert

As you can see from the above, we need to use different steps to clear cookies for different browsers. Is there any way to quickly clear cookies and cache on the PC once and for all? Luckily, AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, an easy PC cleaner perfectly fits your request.

Through the "PC Cleaner" function, it can not only perform the task of thoroughly scanning and cleaning out cookies on computer, but also have the "super power" of digging out all junk files on the computer. This user-friendly tool also sorts and arranges junk files after the scan is complete, making it easier for you to select the files you want to delete.

Apart from cleaning up your computer, this versatile tool also has popular functions such as wipe hard drive, merge partitions, resize partition and format partition, which can effectively solve common computer problems.

Let's see how it works to clean out cookies on Windows 10.

Step 1. Download and open AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard, then click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner".

Step 2. You can predict approximately how much computer space you can free up, click "Start Scan" to scan for all junk files.

Step 3. Quickly, all junk files will be find out.

Step 4. All junk files it found will be sorted and listed, select the junk files you need to clean up and click "Clean All".

Step 5. Select "Back" when the cleaning task is completed.

Tip: If you want to free up computer space more thoroughly, you can go to the Professional Version, using "Delete Large Files" to completely scan and delete all unwanted large files from your computer.

Overview

In this tutorial, we shared reasons and different methods on cleaning out cookies on PC. In addition, we also share a practical PC Cleaner. If you want to clean up your Windows Server PC, don't miss the Server Edition.