IE Cookie/History Wrong?

[Morisato]

Seems to me ones noticed this yet but from what I've discovered, whenever I choose clean IE history, it deletes cookies instead. If not, then it surely deletes/clears anything i've clicked before. Like when you click on a link, it leaves a colored purple reminder that you've clicked on this link already. Cookies only remember those sort of history so I don't get it. It seems they switched the History and Cookie cleaner around. History is suppose to clean visited web pages not history of webpage clicks which are stored in cookies no? Unless I'm mistaken here, since i've used other cleaners and its never done this before...

[ePost]

Do you have cookies enabled in your IE browser?

[Morisato]

If you mean by having default settings. then yes it would always be enabled...

[ePost]

Do you run the latest version of CCleaner? It's v2.24.1010 - last download link on this site: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds

[Morisato]

Yep I always run the latest. I'm just wondering if you've encoutered the same issue. Trying downloading a linked file. It'll turn purply to let you know you've clicked on the link. Then close IE and un CCleaner and select History as a clean. After the clean open IE back up to the site where you've downloaded a file. It should go back to default color before you clicked on it.

[Nergal]

Currently, Starting with ie8 Explorer started to keep many dats (Including the cookies dat)

 

C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Temp\Cookies\index.dat

 

Ccleaner sees this as C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp\ and thus as temp and cleans it unless you exclude it why MS made this Daft change I don't know, but they did.

 

Sadly this also means you need to exclude the file for each and every user on your computer who is going to clean as the exclude section has yet to recongnize %userprofile%\Appdata\Local\Temp\Cookies\*.dat

[Morisato]

Currently, Starting with ie8 Explorer started to keep many dats (Including the cookies dat)

 

C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Local\Temp\Cookies\index.dat

 

Ccleaner sees this as C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Temp\ and thus as temp and cleans it unless you exclude it why MS made this Daft change I don't know, but they did.

 

Sadly this also means you need to exclude the file for each and every user on your computer who is going to clean as the exclude section has yet to recongnize %userprofile%\Appdata\Local\Temp\Cookies\*.dat

 

Interesting

 

Thanks for the info. Although this may be the case, still doesn't stop the team from excluding it from History. After as I mentioned above, for History it should only clear the data on websites vistied and the cookie .dat thing should be left on the cookie option. Even though it is in a temp folder, it wouldn't be deleted if it did exist in the first place. First off I don't have this Temp/Cookies folder at all to begin with. Secondly if that were the case, checking System->Temporary Files and IE->Temporary Internet Files would wipe the files out. Even then its not related since whenever I clean those selections and start IE, it still has the history of whatever links I've clicked in purple. Its the History and Cookie thing that I say is messed up since only cookies keep those sort of history preferences.

 

I just double checked and the correct folder to cookies is #:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies but you'll have to show hidden system files in order to see it.