keeping Cookies

[MMM]

I am running CCleaner v2.8.588 on my XP Pro SP3 laptop. But I have a problem with the cookie delete feature.

 

I choose to keep cookies from certain websites and when I review the cookies folder in Windows, those cookies are kept (example mario@news.yahoo[1].txt).

 

But when I go to the websites, the websites act as if it was the first time I was going to that website, and a new cookie for that website shows up (example mario@news.yahoo[2].txt).

 

It appears that the cookies are being kept, but then they are not 'seen' by IE generating a new cookie.

 

Can you please help?

 

Thanks,

Mario

[Keithuk]

Welcome to Piriform MMM.

 

Well I don't know if this is a glitch with SP3 because it works perfectly for me with WinXP SP2. I've heard that SP3 has caused ever more problems perhaps the SP4 will clear them.

 

Did it work ok with your old SP2?

[MMM]

I did not use CCleaner with SP2 and don't have a machine with SP2 to try it.

 

But I've been doing some additional testing and here is something interesting.... When I start with an empty Cookies folder and then visit a website, I end up with a cookie for it, mario@finance.yahoo[1].txt

 

Then, I run CCleaner and the cookie remains there, as expected. However, when I re-visit the website, it is as if the cookie did not exists and then generates another cookie for the website, mario@finance.yahoo[3].txt

 

However, when I leave that website, cookie #3 renames itself to cookie #2, a new one.

 

I run CCleaner again, and both cookies are there, #1 and #2. The information from cookie #2 is always there.

 

I ran CCleaner multiple times and the information from cookie #2 always comes up.

 

Don't really understand it....

 

I manually deleted cookie #1 and left cookie #2. When I revisited the website, cookie #2 became cookie #1, holding the same information as cookie #2. But when I left the website, cookie #1 became cookie #2 again.

 

I ran CCleaner multiple times and cookie #2 is still there with the same information.

 

Go figure....

 

MM

[YoKenny]

I'm running SP3 and that cookie behavior is the same as it was in SP2.

 

When I look at my cookies in WinPatrol I often see multiple cookies for sites I want to keep.

 

They don't take up much space so I don't worry about them.

 

About once a month I clean out all my cookies then log back in to wherever I want then insure I save those cookies.