Cookies

[Guest]

How can I use cookies from my current Xp system in a new installation of Xp?
Will this work going from Xp Home edition to Xp Pro edition? Thanks.

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

I'm not sure you can do what you want to do, but here's what I have to
offer: Cookies are for the most part considered garbage. For the few that
are actually useful (saving personal settings for a site) it's simplest to
just set them up again. The existing Cookies folder, and in particular the
Index.dat that keeps track of the cookies, can't be deleted or replaced
while the user is logged on. Thus, you'd need to take a copy of your Cookies
folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[username}\Cookies), set up a user on the
new system with *exactly* the same username (let's call it "Gary" for this
example), log on as Administrator, replace the Cookies folder in
C:\Documents and Settings\Gary, and finally log off and then back on as
Gary.

That's how I'd do it, but I can't promise that it will work. Let us know,
OK?

 

[Andrew Murray]

I'm not sure in what context you're asking the question, or whether you're
using the term "cookies" in some other way than what is generally thought
of: cookies are small files that web sites write to your hard drive e.g. to
let the computer "remember" the last time you were at a particular site, or
to retain your login name or whatever, they are also used for tracking your
internet browsing habits....They can be deleted without harm to the computer
system

I think you mis-interpret the purpose of "cookies" or thinking of something
else when you're talking about upgrading XP Home to Pro. The upgrade
shouldn't be a problem since it is like to like operating systems. Pro has
a few extras that HOme doesn't have so the upgrade should procede smoothly.

Generally an over the top upgrade of operating system will leave system
settings intact, but you can run the "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" to
keep such things as email messages and the like.....save them to disk and
restore them when the upgrade is done...this includes things like your
internet browser "Favourites". But cookies, I wouldn't worry about.

Just curious as to why the concern, and are they that essential for you?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Gary, I'll give it a try and report back.

I'm not sure you can do what you want to do, but here's what I have to
offer: Cookies are for the most part considered garbage. For the few that
are actually useful (saving personal settings for a site) it's simplest to
just set them up again. The existing Cookies folder, and in particular the
Index.dat that keeps track of the cookies, can't be deleted or replaced
while the user is logged on. Thus, you'd need to take a copy of your Cookies
folder (C:\Documents and Settings\[username}\Cookies), set up a user on the
new system with *exactly* the same username (let's call it "Gary" for this
example), log on as Administrator, replace the Cookies folder in
C:\Documents and Settings\Gary, and finally log off and then back on as
Gary.

That's how I'd do it, but I can't promise that it will work. Let us know,
OK?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

How can I use cookies from my current Xp system in a new installation of
Xp?
Will this work going from Xp Home edition to Xp Pro edition? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

The Xp Pro installation is a fresh installation on a new hard drive so it is
a new install not an upgrade. 'Cookies' is meant in the usual way. Log-in
information and other sometimes useful info is stored there so it would be
convenient not to have to recreate them.

 

[Guest]

Too simple.

Copy the cookie files you want to save from your "C:\Documents and
Settings\Your Name\Cookies\" folder to your new folder. (Saved to disk of
course)

That's it! I've done it. It works.

Too simple.