Deleteing Cookies in all folders - 2nd try for help!

[Hank]

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Subject: Deleteing Cookies in all folders
From: "Hank Werner" <[email protected]> Sent:
12/23/2003 6:37:32 AM




On "Windows 2000 Professional"

I know using "IE - Tools\Internet Options\General(tab)
\Delete Cookies..." button will delete all "cookies"
from "C:\WINNT\Profiles\(username)\Cookies\*.*".

BUT, what is the path "C:\WINNT\COOKIES\*.*" used for? I
have "*.DAT" files in there that a new "cleaning" software
wants to delete - should I delete the file in this folder?

Thanks,
Hank
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[Robert Aldwinckle]

Interesting. On XP I have one here:

D:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Cookies

I opened the index.dat file in Notepad but it was empty.

Here is what I was able to find about systemprofile

< http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...et/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/XPUsrDat.asp >

<quote>
In Windows 2000, when an application or service used the
LoadUserProfile API to load a user profile for a process running as the
local system, Windows created a profile named %computername%$ ,
where %computername% is the name of the local computer. This could
cause problems for some applications and services, because depending
on whether the system profile was loaded, HKEY_CURRENT_USER
could in fact resolve to different registries – either HKEY_USERS \S-1-5-18
or HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT depending on whether another component
has loaded the SYSTEM profile.
To avoid this, Windows XP creates a new profile for the system, located in
%systemroot%\System32\Config\SystemProfile. This profile is always
loaded, and is a link to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT. This ensures that
system components always have a consistent profile and registry.
</quote>

(Google web search for
SystemProfile Cookies site:microsoft.com
)


I would take it from this that that profile is not important for initialization
purposes (which would have been my first guess) and that it probably
would be recreated if it was needed.


FWIW

Robert Aldwinckle