Cookies and Documents and Settings

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I've been getting cookies with "my name" in front of "@".
I probably used "my name" when I first purchased this Dell laptop.
I was able to redirect my documents to a new "my name" folder under
Documents and settings.
Then I created a new user. rebooted, went to new user. deleted cookies in
both old "my name" and what I had copied to new "my name".
then rebooted and did some web surfing and new cookies are still going to
old "my name" file under Documents and Settings.
Is there a setting someplace directing new cookies to go to old "my name"
folder. when this done. I plan to delete old "my name" folder and everything
in it leaving new "my name" folder hopefully hiding my name from cookies.
thanks
 
user10 said:
I've been getting cookies with "my name" in front of "@".
I probably used "my name" when I first purchased this Dell laptop.
I was able to redirect my documents to a new "my name" folder under
Documents and settings.
Then I created a new user. rebooted, went to new user. deleted
cookies in both old "my name" and what I had copied to new "my name".
then rebooted and did some web surfing and new cookies are still
going to old "my name" file under Documents and Settings.
Is there a setting someplace directing new cookies to go to old "my
name" folder. when this done. I plan to delete old "my name" folder
and everything in it leaving new "my name" folder hopefully hiding my
name from cookies. thanks
Click to expand...

Tools, Internet Options, General Tab (TIF files area [SETTINGS BUTTON]),
[MOVE FOLDER BUTTON], choose new folder, APPLY/OK out.
 
user10 wrote on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:06:02 -0700:
I've been getting cookies with "my name" in front of "@".
I probably used "my name" when I first purchased this Dell laptop.
I was able to redirect my documents to a new "my name" folder under
Documents and settings.
Then I created a new user. rebooted, went to new user. deleted cookies in
both old "my name" and what I had copied to new "my name".
then rebooted and did some web surfing and new cookies are still going to
old "my name" file under Documents and Settings.
Is there a setting someplace directing new cookies to go to old "my name"
folder. when this done. I plan to delete old "my name" folder and
everything in it leaving new "my name" folder hopefully hiding my name
from cookies. thanks
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The names against the cookies are never sent out - they are used only for
identifying which user account the cookies belong to in case multiple
accounts use the same directory to store cookies (as happens on 9x versions
of Windows).

Dan
 
I did that and yet cookies still go to old "my name" folder. Temp internet
files do go to new "my name" folder.
And those cookies going to old "my name" still have my old "my name" in
front of them.
If I open a folder in my documents and I add something to it change is in
new "my name" folder and not old "my name" folder so that works.

What else can I do.




Wyoming Foam Hunter said:
user10 said:
I've been getting cookies with "my name" in front of "@".
I probably used "my name" when I first purchased this Dell laptop.
I was able to redirect my documents to a new "my name" folder under
Documents and settings.
Then I created a new user. rebooted, went to new user. deleted
cookies in both old "my name" and what I had copied to new "my name".
then rebooted and did some web surfing and new cookies are still
going to old "my name" file under Documents and Settings.
Is there a setting someplace directing new cookies to go to old "my
name" folder. when this done. I plan to delete old "my name" folder
and everything in it leaving new "my name" folder hopefully hiding my
name from cookies. thanks
Click to expand...

Tools, Internet Options, General Tab (TIF files area [SETTINGS BUTTON]),
[MOVE FOLDER BUTTON], choose new folder, APPLY/OK out.
Click to expand...
 
Wyoming Foam Hunter said:
user10 said:
I've been getting cookies with "my name" in front of "@".
I probably used "my name" when I first purchased this Dell laptop.
I was able to redirect my documents to a new "my name" folder under
Documents and settings.
Then I created a new user. rebooted, went to new user. deleted
cookies in both old "my name" and what I had copied to new "my name".
then rebooted and did some web surfing and new cookies are still
going to old "my name" file under Documents and Settings.
Is there a setting someplace directing new cookies to go to old "my
name" folder. when this done. I plan to delete old "my name" folder
and everything in it leaving new "my name" folder hopefully hiding my
name from cookies. thanks
Click to expand...

Tools, Internet Options, General Tab (TIF files area [SETTINGS BUTTON]),
[MOVE FOLDER BUTTON], choose new folder, APPLY/OK out.
Click to expand...


WFH,

The Cookies in the TIF Viewer create an illusion that they are in the TIF.
In fact, they always reside in (under XP) %USERPROFILE%\Cookies
Hence, moving the TIF won't move the Cookies.

I will assume that the reference to Documents and Settings means
that the OS is XP and in any case that the reference to "creating a new user" means that User Profiles are in effect. Hence the
Cookies should be
separated by account. So if they are mixed it happened as a result
of whatever copying was done.

We also need more details about the "deleted Cookies" operation.
I suspect the answer will lie in what exactly was done by it.
E.g. if the Cookie folder's index.dat was untouched, old data
might still be there to be formatted by the TIF viewer
which would make it appear that old Cookies were still there.


Robert Aldwinckle
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Robert thanks for answering my post and bringing up something MS link to
moving temp files does not address.
yes I am using XP.
I created a new user from my main user account. Closed down. booted. logged
using new user name.
went to C:/documents and setting/old "my name" folder and deleted everything
in cookies folder including index.dat and then did same thing to new "my
name" folder.
I rebooted and logged in as my main user and looked at cookies in both files
and seems to me as I remember either one or both were either gone and for
index.dat files were also gone.
I then did some internet surfing and went back into folders. Cookies under
old "my name" had about a 12 new cookies and index.dat file was updated to
yesterday's date.
going into new "my name" folder and cookies and only thing there was an
update to same date as above and no new cookies. empty except for index.dat
file.
does this help?
 
user10 said:
Robert thanks for answering my post and bringing up something MS link to
moving temp files does not address.
yes I am using XP.
I created a new user from my main user account. Closed down. booted. logged
using new user name.
went to C:/documents and setting/old "my name" folder and deleted everything
in cookies folder including index.dat and then did same thing to new "my
name" folder.
I rebooted and logged in as my main user and looked at cookies in both files
and seems to me as I remember either one or both were either gone and for
index.dat files were also gone.
I then did some internet surfing and went back into folders. Cookies under
old "my name" had about a 12 new cookies and index.dat file was updated to
yesterday's date.
going into new "my name" folder and cookies and only thing there was an
update to same date as above and no new cookies. empty except for index.dat
file.
does this help?
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Not much clearer. If you're trying to find traces of Cookies in the index.dat
open a cmd window and enter:

cd /d %USERPROFILE%\Cookies
find /i "Cookie:" index.dat


HTH

Robert[/QUOTE]
 
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