Re: selectively deleting cookies

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"Coach88" <> wrote in message
news:AFB3EC30-06BA-4A57-8621-...
>I want to keep some usefull cookies while deleting harmfull or unwanted
> cookies. When I go in Internet options, delete cookies it deletes all
> cookies. If I view the temporary internet files, some cookies are missing
> therefore I can't effectively clean them out. I'm running Vista and IE 7.


Somebody recently indicated that toggling Protected Mode off
enabled them to see more temporary files. I don't use Vista, so I don't know
if that makes sense or not. However, I have been given the idea that
there is now more than one TIF, so perhaps there is at least a second
collection of Cookies to go with those too?

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...28b&sloc=en-us

<quote>
Eureka! There they were--all the cookies and Temp files from the sites I had just visited.
</quote>


So, how do you know that "some cookies are missing"?
One way would be to have been monitoring their use using ProcMon
but then you would know where they were coming from too. ; }

BTW if you can find the Cookies but can't figure out how to see them
using the TIF Viewer, AFAIK deleting Cookies (.txt files) from a cmd window
is possible. The only "issue" with it would be that the folder's index.dat
wouldn't be updated accordingly. But if you were just going to be revisiting
the same site soon again anyway such inconsistencies would soon be fixed.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:35:34 -0400, "Robert Aldwinckle"
<> wrote:

>Somebody recently indicated that toggling Protected Mode off
>enabled them to see more temporary files. I don't use Vista, so I don't know
>if that makes sense or not.

It doesn't make sense, but it's true. Just another reason I disabled
the UAC service.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html

I've already posted this to your thread in IE Newsgroup???
It is XP and vista compatible!
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> (cross-post added to Vista General)
> "Coach88" <> wrote in message
> news:AFB3EC30-06BA-4A57-8621-...
> >I want to keep some usefull cookies while deleting harmfull or unwanted
> > cookies. When I go in Internet options, delete cookies it deletes all
> > cookies. If I view the temporary internet files, some cookies are missing
> > therefore I can't effectively clean them out. I'm running Vista and IE 7.
>
>
> Somebody recently indicated that toggling Protected Mode off
> enabled them to see more temporary files. I don't use Vista, so I don't know
> if that makes sense or not. However, I have been given the idea that
> there is now more than one TIF, so perhaps there is at least a second
> collection of Cookies to go with those too?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...28b&sloc=en-us
>
> <quote>
> Eureka! There they were--all the cookies and Temp files from the sites I had just visited.
> </quote>
>
>
> So, how do you know that "some cookies are missing"?
> One way would be to have been monitoring their use using ProcMon
> but then you would know where they were coming from too. ; }
>
> BTW if you can find the Cookies but can't figure out how to see them
> using the TIF Viewer, AFAIK deleting Cookies (.txt files) from a cmd window
> is possible. The only "issue" with it would be that the folder's index.dat
> wouldn't be updated accordingly. But if you were just going to be revisiting
> the same site soon again anyway such inconsistencies would soon be fixed.
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>

Why are you replying to Robert?

Mick Murphy wrote:
> http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iecookies.html
>
> I've already posted this to your thread in IE Newsgroup???
> It is XP and vista compatible!
>
>> (cross-post added to Vista General)
>> "Coach88" <> wrote in message
>> news:AFB3EC30-06BA-4A57-8621-...
>>> I want to keep some usefull cookies while deleting harmfull or unwanted
>>> cookies. When I go in Internet options, delete cookies it deletes all
>>> cookies. If I view the temporary internet files, some cookies are
>>> missing
>>> therefore I can't effectively clean them out. I'm running Vista and IE
>>> 7.
>>
>>
>> Somebody recently indicated that toggling Protected Mode off
>> enabled them to see more temporary files. I don't use Vista, so I don't
>> know
>> if that makes sense or not. However, I have been given the idea that
>> there is now more than one TIF, so perhaps there is at least a second
>> collection of Cookies to go with those too?
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...28b&sloc=en-us
>>
>> <quote>
>> Eureka! There they were--all the cookies and Temp files from the sites I
>> had just visited. </quote>
>>
>>
>> So, how do you know that "some cookies are missing"?
>> One way would be to have been monitoring their use using ProcMon
>> but then you would know where they were coming from too. ; }
>>
>> BTW if you can find the Cookies but can't figure out how to see them
>> using the TIF Viewer, AFAIK deleting Cookies (.txt files) from a cmd
>> window
>> is possible. The only "issue" with it would be that the folder's
>> index.dat
>> wouldn't be updated accordingly. But if you were just going to be
>> revisiting
>> the same site soon again anyway such inconsistencies would soon be fixed.
>>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Robert Aldwinckle
>> ---

Disabling Protected Mode to view cookies in IE7 Vista does indeed work.
There's a rather lengthy technical article written by two Microsoft Program
Managers on the Internet Explorer and Windpws Security Teams at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...62(VS.85).aspx

It's titled "Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Internet Explorer".
Down in the body of the article is the section on "Configuring Protected
Mode." It's a simple process to turn it off.

Just keep in mind that running IE in Protected Mode does help keep users
from attacks by the internet bad guys. By disabling Protected Mode, you'll
be able to see your cookies and delete those you don't want on your machine.
Your browsing just won't be as secure. You can always enable it again.




--
Joseph


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> (cross-post added to Vista General)
> "Coach88" <> wrote in message
> news:AFB3EC30-06BA-4A57-8621-...
> >I want to keep some usefull cookies while deleting harmfull or unwanted
> > cookies. When I go in Internet options, delete cookies it deletes all
> > cookies. If I view the temporary internet files, some cookies are missing
> > therefore I can't effectively clean them out. I'm running Vista and IE 7.
>
>
> Somebody recently indicated that toggling Protected Mode off
> enabled them to see more temporary files. I don't use Vista, so I don't know
> if that makes sense or not. However, I have been given the idea that
> there is now more than one TIF, so perhaps there is at least a second
> collection of Cookies to go with those too?
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...28b&sloc=en-us
>
> <quote>
> Eureka! There they were--all the cookies and Temp files from the sites I had just visited.
> </quote>
>
>
> So, how do you know that "some cookies are missing"?
> One way would be to have been monitoring their use using ProcMon
> but then you would know where they were coming from too. ; }
>
> BTW if you can find the Cookies but can't figure out how to see them
> using the TIF Viewer, AFAIK deleting Cookies (.txt files) from a cmd window
> is possible. The only "issue" with it would be that the folder's index.dat
> wouldn't be updated accordingly. But if you were just going to be revisiting
> the same site soon again anyway such inconsistencies would soon be fixed.
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>