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Changing "Cookie" Settings

1.     Open Internet Explorer. You will not need to be online to change these settings.

2.     Choose the menu Tools from the menu bar on top.   

3.     A pull down menu will be shown choose Internet Options.

4.     Another window will appear with several tabs across the top click the Security tab.

5.     Highlight the globe icon marked Internet    

6.     In the lower part of the window click on button marked Custom level  

7.     A new window will now appear with several security options available. Scroll down until you reach the heading “cookies”.

8.     There are two types of options to set one is to allow cookies to be stored on your computer (saved) and the second is to allow cookies only to be stored on your computer while on line (not saved). Each of these options has the setting Disabled, Enable, and Prompt.

9.     For the first option “allow cookies to be stored on my computer”: Choosing:

·        Enable will allow any site to store cookies on your computers hard drive.

·        Disable will not allow any site to store cookies on your computer hard drive

·        Prompt will allow you to choose on a case by case basis

10.  For the second option “Allow per-session cookies (not stored) Choosing:

·        Enable will allow any site to store cookies on your computers hard drive temporarily for that session.

·        Disable will not allow any site to store cookies on your computer hard drive

·        Prompt will allow you to choose on a case by case basis

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