lau wrote:
Firstly, why does anyone want to run a firewall, other than the standard XP/SP2 one? It's not going to do anything for you.
Secondly, cookies never take 2GBytes. They are limited to 32Kbytes per site, so you'd need to visit... 64,000 sites to get that much cookie usage.
Thirdly, why are people scared of cookies? (Provided you get rid of the irritating ones, by using Spybot/AdAware, the majority are GOOD.)
What does annoy me is how people leave their cache set at a default size that is ridiculously large. This is the 2GBytes stuff - it isn't cookies, it's all the html and images from every website you've ever visited since you got the machine. The cache is supposed to improve speed, by only downloading stuff when it has changed. A huge cache (I personally have this one set as... 50Mbytes), like 2GBytes, takes longer to scan, looking for a tiny gif file, say, than it would to download the thing in the first place!
I ran CCleaner on my clients Gateway Laptop and i read up to 1.8GB in the cookies and regsistry area.