Cookies

[Germain]

I can't find my cookies. When I'm on Internet I click on Tools Internet Options, I go to Settings and there I can see that my Temporary Internet Files Folder, but when I check that same folder in Windows Explorer, I can't see the folder.

[Atomic Rooster]

OK. You're close. While in Internet Options, click the General tab. Click the Settings button under the Browsing history heading. In the next window, click the View files button and your cookies should appear in the next window.

[Martoch]

Or try C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Account\Cookies

[Germain]

I looked through almost every folder in Document and Settings, under My user account and all the files and folders and couldn't find them. I also asked for a Search and nothing comes out. However I can see them in Internet options, but when I look where Internet options shows them, the're not there.

[Martoch]

Are you showing ALL folder/files? Tools - folder options - 'view' tab - under 'hidden files and folders' - click the 'show hidden files and folders' radio button - uncheck 'hide protected operating system files' and answer yes.

[cksboy15]

i type cookies into to Run and that automatically brings up the window for XP.

[Germain]

Thanks Martoch and Cksboy15 both of you are right. What does it mean when the index.dat file is 4,400kb, shouldn't it be lower?

[cksboy15]

I don't know it doesn't appear for me.

[Rootstonian]

Every machine I use (home and work) I block ALL cookies. Than I enable sites as I need them. Never a problem. I consider it a safe computing practice.

For fun, turn on "prompt" as a cookie setting. Visit weather.com Do some regular surfing; you'll be shocked at the amount of sites that want to dump cookies (sites, of course, completely non-related to the site you visited; they pay the host site for this).

That's why I block all

[patrickt]

I agree with Roots except I accept session cookies.