Display Cookies in Vista Ultimate?

[Ken]

I need a little help/education - I have two computers, one running Vista
Ultimate and one running Vista Home Premium. For some reason I am denied
access to the cookies in Ultimate and yet I have "exactly" the same setup on
the Premium machine and I can view and edit cookies with no problem. Is
Ultimate different when it come to the system administrator or did I do
some sort of magic on the Premium machine? The only difference between the
two setups is I have two users on Ultimate and only one user on the Premium
setup? I can do the delete all routine in Internet Explorer but I would
like to go in a delete specific cookies so I can get back into the Windows
Home Server Forum! Thanks in advance.

 

[Ken]

Added information - the way I access the cookies on the Premium setup is via
a shortcut to the cookies. Premium will not let me look at them via Windows
Explorer directly. I try the same thing in Ultimate and the shortcut to
cookies does nothing. The shortcut looks the same on both systems???

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Added information - the way I access the cookies on the Premium setup is
via a shortcut to the cookies. Premium will not let me look at them via
Windows Explorer directly. I try the same thing in Ultimate and the
shortcut to cookies does nothing. The shortcut looks the same on both
systems???

Try type shell:cookies into the Run box to get to cookies.

ss.

 

[AlexB]

I do have Vista Ultimate with one account only. I fancy myself as a very
"experienced" user. I do a lot of C# .NET programming. I was about to give
you an additional "lecture" as to how to handle the situation. In the
process of typing the instruction I decided to practice what I was about to
preach myself.

I swear, I cannot see any cookies in that folder no matter what I tried. I
do not need to get there. I delete them wholesale when I need it. I was just
curious because I frequently check suggestions people post.

It is so strange. this is how far I've got:

I opened Command Prompt as run as Administrator, navigated myself to
C:\users\AlexB\ and checked the directory. Naturally cookies folder was
hidden. I unchecked the "Hide Protected Operating System Files" ("Show
Hidden Files and Folders" was already checked before) as brink suggested,
checked the directory again. There was cookies directory in there, I did cd
cookies. The directory is empty. I know for a fact that there are cookies in
there because I go to sites where I won't be recognized without them.

Before I unchecked "Hide Protected Operating System Files" the cookies
directory was not visible in Windows explorer. Now it is visible but so
what? I still cannot open the folder in Windows Explorer. It says "Access
denied."

I think I finally figured out what the problem was but I decided to back
off. I do not need to mess with this aspect of my Vista.

This is what's going on. I right clicked file "cookies" or perhaps even the
parent file "users," Properties>>Security>>Edit. I removed everyone as a use
group. I added myself as a user of this folder, although I really have no
business to be there, then I gave myself full rights, did apply and still I
could not open the folder in WE.

The last resort was to press Advanced and here the full truth became
apparent. Despite the fact that I deleted group "everyone" from the previous
window, "everyone" was still there with the explicit Type: "Deny."

Had I pressed another edit on that form and removed this group I would have
been able to do what I did not want to do. I know it for a fact that it was
how I deleted some system protected folders on external HDD which contained
a backup from an old OS: XP or Win2K. Vista still kept a watchful eye on it.

It is just a layer upon layer of security but I think it is for the better.

I also want to warn you the there might be an additional hurdle for you to
jump over. You will have to kill the inheritance. It is a totally different
can of worms. Just figure it out.

Go ahead my boy if you want to mess with cookies. good luck.

 

[forty-nine]

I do have Vista Ultimate with one account only. I fancy myself as a very
"experienced" user. I do a lot of C# .NET programming. I was about to give
you an additional "lecture" as to how to handle the situation. In the
process of typing the instruction I decided to practice what I was about to
preach myself.

I swear, I cannot see any cookies in that folder no matter what I tried. I
do not need to get there. I delete them wholesale when I need it. I was
just curious because I frequently check suggestions people post.

It is so strange. this is how far I've got:

I opened Command Prompt as run as Administrator, navigated myself to
C:\users\AlexB\ and checked the directory. Naturally cookies folder was
hidden. I unchecked the "Hide Protected Operating System Files" ("Show
Hidden Files and Folders" was already checked before) as brink suggested,
checked the directory again. There was cookies directory in there, I did
cd cookies. The directory is empty. I know for a fact that there are
cookies in there because I go to sites where I won't be recognized without
them.

Before I unchecked "Hide Protected Operating System Files" the cookies
directory was not visible in Windows explorer. Now it is visible but so
what? I still cannot open the folder in Windows Explorer. It says "Access
denied."

C:\users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low

try there

 

[AlexB]

Stupid me!!!

I actually been there. Keep forgetting.

 

[John Hanley]

I find it quite handy to use a program called "Karen's Cookie Viewer" to
quickly find my cookies, wherever they may be...

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp

 

[AlexB]

Cute site.

I find it quite handy to use a program called "Karen's Cookie Viewer" to
quickly find my cookies, wherever they may be...

http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp

 

[Ken]

Thanks for the information. I'm the pretty stupid one since I did it
correctly on the Vista Premium Machine (following someone's instructions I
found Googling) and then took the AlexB path on the Vista Ultimate Machine!!
I now have a shortcut on the desktop of both machines to go to the cookies
folder so I can delete the MSFT cookie entries so I can log back into the
Window Home Server Forum! Thanks again everybody for the interest and
suggestions.