Where are my cookies stored?

Where are my cookies stored? They are not all in Temporary Internet Files

#1 RknRusty

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Posted 19 November 2009 - 08:06 AM

I have looked in: C:\Users\Rusty\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files, and there are only 33 items including some website icons.

The reason I am searching is because I want Norton Internet Security 2009 to ignore my tvguide.com cookie so my settings are not removed with every scan. If I just paste myname@tvguide.com into the exclusions, it still removes it, so I thought maybe I needed the full path. I have folder options set to show system and hidden files. NIS can find it, but I can't. Can someone tell me where it is?

Thanks,
Rusty

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#2 figgis41

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Posted 20 November 2009 - 02:52 AM

hi,,,,
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies.

good luck.

Figgis,,,, LUFC

#3 youserbase

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Posted 20 November 2009 - 03:07 AM

Try Clicking Folder options and check Show hidden files and folders

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#4 RknRusty

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Posted 20 November 2009 - 12:05 PM

figgis41, on Nov 20 2009, 02:52 AM, said:

hi,,,,
C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files

C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies.

good luck.

I had been to those locations before and just now tried them again. One had 18 cookies and the other had about 20. I also tried default user and all users in the path too, but the cookie isn't there. I visited the tvguide website to make sure I had the cookie and it remembered all of my settings, so I do have it. Their help file says all of the preferences are stored on my computer. And I scanned again and Norton found it, so it's hiding somewhere.

Thanks for your reply, figgis. I'm not going to worry anymore about it because I just got an e-mail saying my Windows 7 cd is in the mail.
Vista has been a PITA about restricting my own files from me since day one. I've been a long time XP user up until August when my machone fried, so I know I'm spoiled.