I upgraded to Vista from XP Home. I successfully imported my favorites and cookies from the old XP machine to the Vista machine. I discovered the location of my favorites but I can't find where Vista IE7 stored my cookies. Can someone point me to the right folder location to the cookies. I want to add the cookies folder to my backup routine.
Hi Tek, Cookies in Vista are stored at: C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low AND C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/60641-cookies.html Hope this helps, Shawn tek;795988 Wrote: > I upgraded to Vista from XP Home. I successfully imported my favorites > and cookies from the old XP machine to the Vista machine. I discovered > the location of my favorites but I can't find where Vista IE7 stored > my cookies. Can someone point me to the right folder location to the > cookies. I want to add the cookies folder to my backup routine. -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:16:58 -0500, Brink wrote: > >Hi Tek, > >Cookies in Vista are stored at: > >C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low > >AND > >C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies AND in the Temporary Internet Files folder which you can't see without turning off UAC. I actually think that folder is the primary repository, and the others are some kind of mirror. >http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/60641-cookies.html > >Hope this helps, >Shawn > >tek;795988 Wrote: >> I upgraded to Vista from XP Home. I successfully imported my favorites >> and cookies from the old XP machine to the Vista machine. I discovered >> the location of my favorites but I can't find where Vista IE7 stored >> my cookies. Can someone point me to the right folder location to the >> cookies. I want to add the cookies folder to my backup routine.
On Aug 5, 2:33 pm, Paul Montgomery wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 12:16:58 -0500, Brink > wrote: > > > > >Hi Tek, > > >Cookies in Vista are stored at: > > >C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low > > >AND > > >C:\Users\(User Name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies > > AND in the Temporary Internet Files folder which you can't see without > turning off UAC. > > I actually think that folder is the primary repository, and the others > are some kind of mirror. > > > > >http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/60641-cookies.html > > >Hope this helps, > >Shawn > > >tek;795988 Wrote: > >> I upgraded to Vista from XP Home. I successfully imported my favorites > >> and cookies from the old XP machine to the Vista machine. I discovered > >> the location of my favorites but I can't find where Vista IE7 stored > >> my cookies. Can someone point me to the right folder location to the > >> cookies. I want to add the cookies folder to my backup routine.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Got it, thanks to all.
Something else is going on with cookies in Vista. My cookie cleaner program finds the tree you mention but when I go looking for it (even showing hidden folders) there is no cookie subfolder in the windows folder. Also, there is one cookie in a folder which is never found and cleaned. Maybe it's in the cookies/low folder but I don't see that one either. Any thoughts on how I can see these folders would be appreciated. Thanks -- alja
Hi Alja, and welcome to Vista Forums. You will just have to also uncheck the *Hide protected operating system files *option in Folder Options to see those files. :geek: Shawn -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
Thanks for the quick reply Shawn, but I've got a wierd one here. I unchecked HIDE PROTECTED SYSTEM FILES as you suggested but still don't see the folder. I find the cookie file in Firefox with no problem but still can't find the one for IE7. Sneaky people those Microsoft programmers. -- alja
Well I did finally find the files by going to folder options clicking on the search tab and ticking include system directories. There seem to be multiple cookie folders and the program I'm using 'Cookie Monster' only locates some of them. Can someone recommend a program that will do a good job of selectively cleaning cookies in Vista? -- alja
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:07:50 -0500, alja wrote: >Thanks for the quick reply Shawn, but I've got a wierd one here. I >unchecked HIDE PROTECTED SYSTEM FILES as you suggested but still don't >see the folder. I find the cookie file in Firefox with no problem but >still can't find the one for IE7. Sneaky people those Microsoft >programmers. Have you turned of User Account Control so that you can see the contents of the Temporary Internet Files?
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:30:04 -0500, alja wrote: >Well I did finally find the files by going to folder options clicking on >the search tab and ticking include system directories. There seem to be >multiple cookie folders and the program I'm using 'Cookie Monster' only >locates some of them. Can someone recommend a program that will do a >good job of selectively cleaning cookies in Vista? CCleaner works just FINE here. I can select which ones I want to keep and the rest are gone.
alja;802613 Wrote: > Well I did finally find the files by going to folder options clicking on > the search tab and ticking include system directories. There seem to be > multiple cookie folders and the program I'm using 'Cookie Monster' only > locates some of them. Can someone recommend a program that will do a > good job of selectively cleaning cookies in Vista? Alja, The free program CCleaner has a great cookie manager (Options, Cookies) feature in it, and can delete (Cleaner option) all of the cookies to. You might give it a try. 'CCleaner - Home' (http://www.ccleaner.com/) Shawn -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
Thanks. Will give it a try. -- alja
Brink;802694 Wrote: > > alja;802613 Wrote: > > Well I did finally find the files by going to folder options clicking on > > the search tab and ticking include system directories. There seem to be > > multiple cookie folders and the program I'm using 'Cookie Monster' only > > locates some of them. Can someone recommend a program that will do a > > good job of selectively cleaning cookies in Vista?> > > > Alja, > > The free program CCleaner has a great cookie manager (Options, > Cookies) feature in it, and can delete (Cleaner option) all of the > cookies to. You might give it a try. > > 'CCleaner - Home' (http://www.ccleaner.com/) > > Shawn alja;802732 Wrote: > Thanks. Will give it a try. Your welcome Alja. -- Brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.* '*VISTA FORUMS*' (http://www.vistax64.com) *Please post feedback to help others.*
