Am I this dumb?

[shakey]

I have run Ad-aware and Spybot in addition to HAND deleting many cookies
from my
C://documents and settings/me/local settings/temporary Internet files
And all cookies,or at least all the ones I recognize, are still there. Many
not accessed in a six months.
What could be going on?
SG

 

[Guest]

Hi SG,
Try to clear your History and delete all Cookies , put the Website Cookies
you know it is harmfull in the restricted Zone and Do Full Scan,you looks
like have your IE hacked or tracked by some sort of wrting code cookie,go to
Trend Micro www.antivirus.com/vinfo and download the recent scaner after you
clear your caches.
hope this helps
please write back to the group
nass

 

[shakey]

Thanks but there must be more to it. I have about 15 cookies I do not want
to have to regenerate as they are useful so can't simply delete all.
SG

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Tools | Internet Options | General tab | Delete Cookies button

The "cookies" in the Temporary Internet Files Folder are just pointers to
the real cookies. Like a shortcut to the real cookie.

Real cookies are stored here >>
%userprofile%\Cookies
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Cookies
or
Start | Run | Type: cookies | Click OK to open your Cookies folder.


The Delete Cookies button deletes the cookies here >>
%userprofile%\Cookies
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Cookies

But it also deletes the pointers to the real cookies here >>
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
or
C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files

If you manually delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet Files
folder, both the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie file located
in the Cookies folder are deleted.

If you delete a cookie from the cookies folder it leaves the pointer to the
cookie behind. But it's worthless. Just like a shortcut that does not
point to anything.

To delete *all* Temporary Internet Files...

1) Start | Run | Type: inetcpl.cpl | Click OK
Or right click the Internet Explorer icon on your Desktop
Or Start | Settings | Control Panel | Internet Options
Best to do this with all instances of Internet Explorer closed. Especially
if there are a large number of files.
2) On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Delete Files
3) Check the box Delete all offline content {This cleans >>
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
AND
%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
and \Content.MSO (Created by an MS Office program)}
4) Click on OK and wait for the hourglass icon to stop after it deletes the
temporary internet files
5) You can now click on Delete Cookies and click OK to delete cookies that
websites have placed on your hard drive.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In

 

[Opinicus]

Thanks but there must be more to it. I have about 15 cookies I do not want
to have to regenerate as they are useful so can't simply delete all.

Would it be possible to copy the cookies you want to keep to a safe place.
Delete all. Then put the ones you saved back in the cookies folder?

Does anybody know if this would work?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Bob,

Try AnalogX CookieWall
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm

AnalogX CookieWall - Review:
http://www.winhelponline.com/cookiewall.htm

This is my personal favorite cookie manager.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

Thanks but there must be more to it. I have about 15 cookies I do not want
to have to regenerate as they are useful so can't simply delete all.

Would it be possible to copy the cookies you want to keep to a safe place.
Delete all. Then put the ones you saved back in the cookies folder?

Does anybody know if this would work?

 

[shakey]

Giving the analogX program a try, seems to be near what I desire. Would not
have tried it but trust your posts Ramesh.
Thanks
SG

Bob,

Try AnalogX CookieWall
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm

AnalogX CookieWall - Review:
http://www.winhelponline.com/cookiewall.htm

This is my personal favorite cookie manager.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com

Thanks but there must be more to it. I have about 15 cookies I do not
want
to have to regenerate as they are useful so can't simply delete all.

Would it be possible to copy the cookies you want to keep to a safe place.
Delete all. Then put the ones you saved back in the cookies folder?

Does anybody know if this would work?

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

You're welcome shakey.
AnalogX CookieWall is what I use, and very much like it.

--
Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User]
Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


Giving the analogX program a try, seems to be near what I desire. Would not
have tried it but trust your posts Ramesh.
Thanks
SG