Cookies and IE Privacy Keeper?

I dual booted between XP and Vista Ultimate 64 for a very long time,
now moving hard drives around has caused me to do a fresh install of
Vista 64 on the new hard drive and I've got a weird problem....

My only version of Vista ran IE Privacy Keeper and it worked with no
problems, the new install of Vista does not.

I'm unable to use the "Keep Selected Cookies" feature because my old
Vista install kept Cookies in:

Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies

and the new install keeps Cookies in:

Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low

Naturally, IE Privacy Keeper won't show cookies and changing the
Locations section in IE Privacy Keeper doesn't fix the problem, when I
click on the "View" link after the "Keep Selected Cookies" link (on the
IE tab) I still see the \Cookies folder rather than the \Cookies\Low
folder. Modifying the settings.iepk file doesn't seem to help either.

Anyone know what's going on? Why does one install of Vista keep
cookies in a different folder than a later install does?

XS11E
Mon Aug 06 15:36:18 CDT 2007

XS11E <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:

> old Vista install kept Cookies in:
>
> Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
>
> and the new install keeps Cookies in:
>
> Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low

Looks like I was completely wrong as to what was happening. I logged
onto my old Vista install and found that the creation of the ...\Low
folder is from some IE update, my old Vista install had the ...\Cookies
folder with the cookies I'd told IE Privacy Keeper to retain but it
also had the ...\Low folder with EVERY DANG COOKIE I'd encountered
since installing whatever update it was.

So it looks like I'm going to either learn to live with CCleaner or try
to find what update to IE 7 caused the cookies to be moved to the \Low
folder since IE Privacy Keeper can't see that folder for some reason?



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Charlie
Mon Aug 06 19:16:24 CDT 2007

the Low folder is one of those new things. Sigh.

Best solution I know is to get in the habit of regularly clearing all stored
content, including cookies.

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"XS11E" <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> XS11E <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> old Vista install kept Cookies in:
>>
>> Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
>>
>> and the new install keeps Cookies in:
>>
>> Users\(user name)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low
>
> Looks like I was completely wrong as to what was happening. I logged
> onto my old Vista install and found that the creation of the ...\Low
> folder is from some IE update, my old Vista install had the ...\Cookies
> folder with the cookies I'd told IE Privacy Keeper to retain but it
> also had the ...\Low folder with EVERY DANG COOKIE I'd encountered
> since installing whatever update it was.
>
> So it looks like I'm going to either learn to live with CCleaner or try
> to find what update to IE 7 caused the cookies to be moved to the \Low
> folder since IE Privacy Keeper can't see that folder for some reason?
>
>
>
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XS11E
Mon Aug 06 19:43:06 CDT 2007

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:

> the Low folder is one of those new things. Sigh.
>
> Best solution I know is to get in the habit of regularly clearing
> all stored content, including cookies.

I was, the update broke that, danggit! I've removed IE Privacy Keeper
and installed CCleaner. I don't like it as well but it works with the
updates so all is OK again.

I've emailed the IE Privacy Keeper folks and should have a response
sometime in the next 5 years... <sigh>




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XS11E
Wed Aug 08 15:41:22 CDT 2007

"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:

> the Low folder is one of those new things. Sigh.

I've got IE Privacy Keeper working again but I'm not happy with the
fix.

IE7 is now storing cookies in:
C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low

I deleted the "Low" folder but, of course, it came right back so I
tried turning off UAC and deleting the "Low" folder, it works, IE
Privacy Keeper is working just fine now but I can't turn UAC back on.

I'd MUCH rather have IE Privacy Keeper than I would UAC so it's off
until a fix is found. I've written several times to:

http://www.unhsolutions.net/support.html

telling them what I've found but I've not heard back from them. Others
tell me they're pretty slow to respond but I've got my fingers
crossed....

I figure I've lived TRSDOS, DOS, Windows 3.0 etc., etc. w/o UAC so I
might as well live w/o it now but I *do not* recommend turning UAC off
to others.




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Charlie
Thu Aug 09 00:56:08 CDT 2007

No, I won't turn off UAC. But since I haven't got anything I use that they
haven't found a workaround for, not an issue.

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"XS11E" <xs11e@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns99868B420AED9xs11eyahoocom@127.0.0.1...
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> wrote:
>
>> the Low folder is one of those new things. Sigh.
>
> I've got IE Privacy Keeper working again but I'm not happy with the
> fix.
>
> IE7 is now storing cookies in:
> C:\Users\<user-name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies\Low
>
> I deleted the "Low" folder but, of course, it came right back so I
> tried turning off UAC and deleting the "Low" folder, it works, IE
> Privacy Keeper is working just fine now but I can't turn UAC back on.
>
> I'd MUCH rather have IE Privacy Keeper than I would UAC so it's off
> until a fix is found. I've written several times to:
>
> http://www.unhsolutions.net/support.html
>
> telling them what I've found but I've not heard back from them. Others
> tell me they're pretty slow to respond but I've got my fingers
> crossed....
>
> I figure I've lived TRSDOS, DOS, Windows 3.0 etc., etc. w/o UAC so I
> might as well live w/o it now but I *do not* recommend turning UAC off
> to others.
>
>
>
>
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