How to Clear Your Cache, Cookies, & History

Your browser automatically stores past websites you’ve visited, images you’ve saved, your passwords, and a ton of other information. While this information might be useful, over time, it takes up space on your hard drive, and could lead to issues like 404 errors (resulting from a corrupted cache).

Instructions

1. In Chrome

   1. Go to: chrome://settings/clearBrowserData

   2. Click “Advanced”

   3. Select “Browsing history”, “Download history”, “Cookies and other site data”, and “Cached images and files”.

   4. If you want, you can select a time range, i.e. “Last hour”, or “Last 4 weeks”.

   5. Click “Clear Data”

   6. Exit all browser windows, and reopen

2. In Microsoft Edge

   1. Go to: edge://settings/clearbrowserdata

   2. Go to Clear browsing data and Choose what to clear

   3. Select “Browsing history”, “Download history”, “Cookies and other site data”, and “Cached images and files”.

   4. If you want, you can select a time range, i.e. “Last hour”, or “Last 4 weeks”.

   5. Click “Clear Data”

   6. Exit all browser windows, and reopen.