Vista - Display Cookies in Vista Ultimate?

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.

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???

"Ken" <krlorenz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ken" <krlorenz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Try type shell:cookies into the Run box to get to cookies.

ss.

Hi Ken,

In addition to SS's post, you need to have ""Show Hidden Files and Folders" checked, and uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files" to see them.

Cookies

Shawn

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.


"Ken" <krlorenz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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"AlexB" <alexb@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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try there

Stupid me!!!

I actually been there. Keep forgetting.

"forty-nine" <110001@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:fmu789$jkk$1@xxxxxx

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" <krlorenz@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cute site.

"John Hanley" <jphanley@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi AlexB,

In addition, the free CCleaner is a great little program that a good cookie manager built into it and alot more. It might be worth to take a look at.

CCleaner - Home

Shawn