Export, Import or Back Up Your Cookies 

Cookies have a bad reputation among many online users, but cookies can be useful as well as intrusive. They can log you automatically onto Web sites, for example, and offer you customized views of information. So you might want to make sure that your cookies are backed up, and you might want to export them to another computer of yours - for example a laptop, or a new computer. Power surfers take note: if you're building a new computer, or you're particularly hard on notebooks, this is an essential task. 

To back up cookies: 

1. From Internet Explorer, Choose Import and Export from the File menu. 

2. The Import/Export Wizard will launch. Choose "Export Cookies" and follow the directions. 

3. A single text file containing all your cookies will be created in My Documents, although you can choose a different location for them. 

4. To import the cookies on another computer, launch the Import/Export Wizard, choose Import Cookies and browse to the location or disk where the cookie file has been stored.

<<<Back Home Next>>>