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Make Sure You Clean Up Your Tracks!

If you have just spent an hour going over your PC cleaning up the garbage that can accumulate from surfing the web along with the programs you use that are not even connected to the web make sure you finish by Cleaning your tracks!

Be sure to delete your electronic trail of temporary files, cookies, and surfing history. If you're using Internet Explorer, click on Tools | Internet Options. On the General tab, click on Delete Cookies, Delete Files (and be sure Offline content is checked), and Clear History.

Still in Internet Options, click the Content tab, then click the AutoComplete button. In the resulting dialog box, click the Clear Forms button and the Clear Passwords button.

If you downloaded any documents, delete them too. If you edited any documents, clear the "recently used documents" list. In Windows XP, right-click on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and select Properties. Select the Start Menu tab; click on Customize | Advanced. Now click on the Clear List button for Recent Documents. Lastly, empty the trash to purge any deleted files.

Let me know if you need anything else.

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