Cookies folder?

Posted By: Lloyd_Humph | Aug 11th, 2008 @ 2:57 PM
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#Aug 11th, 2008 @ 2:57 PM
Lloyd_Humph
Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.
okay, I found a few tracking cookies I want to get rid of with my monthly AVG scan Smiley

Anyways, I got the folder, and it was at J:\Users\Lloyd\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies - but I got as far as \Windows before... wait... where's the Cookies folder? I've got "show hidden folders" enabled. So I head to Run and manually type the above - opens fine, all the cookies are there.

So why doesn't it show up in the GUI? Is there a reason for this?

Lloyd
#Aug 11th, 2008 @ 3:41 PM
W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters
Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files". See if that makes a difference.

On the flip-size, unchecking that means you now get to see how much your filesystem is littered with backcompat stuff that I feel was just unnecessary.

No really... were there any apps that had hardcoded Special Dir paths in them? It's ridiculous.
#Aug 11th, 2008 @ 5:45 PM
Lloyd_Humph
Lloyd_Humph
If Blackberrys are addictive cellphones, Channel9 is the ultimate addictive website.
That's the ticket! Perfect. I'll probably leave it checked since I've been running my PC for almost 2 years now and have never needed to use it.. so it's best I leave them hidden I suppose.

thanks

Lloyd
#Aug 11th, 2008 @ 7:15 PM
kettch
kettch
Yes, there are many apps that do ridiculous things like that.

I remember in a video on backwards compatibility, they said something like the most common way people find out where something is located is just to search for it, and hardcode the path. People do it for file paths and registry paths. I know people who do that (thankfully they don't work for the same company I do). Their software only even starts up by the grace of Vista's immense backcompat infrastructure, including compatible file paths, and file and registry virtualization.
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