This problem is the inverse of the previous question on avoiding the deletion of cookies.
I am using CCleaner v2.21.940 and I'm trying to delete cookies (on an XP SP3 system). I have of course have checked
Windows/cookies
applications/mozilla/cookies
applications/multimedia/adobe flash
applications/multimedia/macromedia flash mx [indeed all multimedia, utilities, windows, and applications are checked].
I have used firefox's own 'privacy' tab to delete all cookies. I have done the same with MS Internet Explorer 8 (which I don't really use).
I have used another program, track eraser pro, to also delete all cookies.
And yet the 'log' persists. It may be growing. I repeat the use of CC cleaner, and here is the puzzling output I get:
Output:
> CLEANING COMPLETE - (1.191 secs)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0 bytes removed.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Details of files deleted
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Removed Cookie: google.com
> Removed Cookie: francetoday.com
> Removed Cookie: yahoo.com
> Removed Cookie: imdb.com
... [and many, many more cookies follow].
Many of these cookies I couldn't haven't visited in over a month. This problem also existed in CCv.2.20, and perhaps before.
Under 'cccleaner, options, cookies, cookies to delete' there is a long list of cookies I could delete or keep (I have nothing in 'cookies to keep,' of course.) And yet this list persists or grows even when I have run ccleaner multiple times.
So, 1. Is there at least a way I could manually eliminate this log. 2. What is more, this may be a bug.
My best, geodesic