bytemangler
Just a general question. Where does windows2000 kept the cookie files that remember your username when you go into a web site. For example when I log into this forum I type the first letter of my id name and the name pop up. Same with the search bar in google. I delete all cookies/caches in IE as well as manually search in the cookie folder. Delete everything and still don't take care of it. I must be looking in the wrong place.
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tuneS
Just open "Internet Properties", go to the "Content" tab, then click "AutoComplete" and you will have the options "Clear Forms" and "Clear Passwords".
bytemangler
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Thanks, that was too easy. Where does it actually store the info??
bytemangler
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Quote:Quote:Just a general question. Where does windows2000 kept the cookie files that remember your username when you go into a web site. For example when I log into this forum I type the first letter of my id name and the name pop up. Same with the search bar in google. I delete all cookies/caches in IE as well as manually search in the cookie folder. Delete everything and still don't take care of it. I must be looking in the wrong place.
Check beneath your userprofile folder... iirc, IE tends to "mirror" (keep 2 copies of cookies & such) that data in 2 spots.
Even if you move the default webpage cache location... you will still get cookies mirrored.
That's probably to help out the folks that code browsers really, because afaik, that is the ONLY WAY they can keep "state" on the users of their site to both profile them & also to keep their settings and such, & that is to use those cookies as a sort of marker on your disk keeping that state up-to-date etc.
APK
P.S.=> C:\Documents and Settings\Bytemangler would be the place to start looking... apk
That was the first thing I check. Got in my profile and delete everything in my cookie folder, and everything in /local settings/temp files. Still not work when I jump to google and it stillbring up the past search words. I did everything in IE too, clear history,cookies,offline files...nada...tuneS suggestion was the only thing I didn't check in the content tab..duh....that did it. All is well now. I'm running IE6.0.2600 just to let you know. I test version 5.0 and 5.5 (which most of our workstations run on) and I can't duplicate it.
Check beneath your userprofile folder... iirc, IE tends to "mirror" (keep 2 copies of cookies & such) that data in 2 spots.
Even if you move the default webpage cache location... you will still get cookies mirrored.
That's probably to help out the folks that code browsers really, because afaik, that is the ONLY WAY they can keep "state" on the users of their site to both profile them & also to keep their settings and such, & that is to use those cookies as a sort of marker on your disk keeping that state up-to-date etc.
APK
P.S.=> C:\Documents and Settings\Bytemangler would be the place to start looking... apk
That was the first thing I check. Got in my profile and delete everything in my cookie folder, and everything in /local settings/temp files. Still not work when I jump to google and it stillbring up the past search words. I did everything in IE too, clear history,cookies,offline files...nada...tuneS suggestion was the only thing I didn't check in the content tab..duh....that did it. All is well now. I'm running IE6.0.2600 just to let you know. I test version 5.0 and 5.5 (which most of our workstations run on) and I can't duplicate it.
nebulus
If you want to turn off AutoComplete, just go to Internet Explorer's Properties, then to Andvanced and uncheck Use inline AutoComplete.. And it won't bug you anymore
