Your registry entries look to be at their defaults for XP installed on drive
E, regarding the location of the Cookies folder.

In Control Panel>Date and Time, is the clock, time zone, etc., set
correctly? Is "Automatically adjust clock for Daylight saving changes"
checked? On the Internet Time tab, click Update Now. Are any errors
reported?

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:021576A0-E766-4467-8355-D0B1A4531E40@microsoft.com...
> Hi Dean
>
> OK.
>
> Confirmed as E:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Cookies
>
> and
>
> %USERPROFILE%\Cookies
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> "dean-dean" wrote:
>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Cookies is where your cookies are stored
>> on
>> Windows XP.
>>
>> E:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files is
>> "virtual viewer" of Windows and displays a mix of cookies and cache
>> files.
>>
>> Your cache files are really in alphanumerically named sub-folders of
>> E:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
>> Files\Content.IE5.
>>
>> Try this. If Windows is installed on your E drive (according to Logfile
>> of
>> HijackThis, it is), then run regedit and go to
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Shell
>> Folders
>>
>> What is the path for Cookies, in the right-hand pane? (Is it C:\Documents
>> and Settings\Mike\Cookies or E:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Cookies, or
>> something else?)
>>
>> Go to
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\User
>> Shell Folders
>>
>> Is the Data for Cookies "%USERPROFILE%\Cookies" (no quotes)?
>>
>> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7074D65E-B09B-48DD-83A6-4D9689891102@microsoft.com...
>> > HI again
>> >
>> > Are you the only other person on this forum LOL
>> >
>> > Yeah maybe, why they could not just come out and say that I don't know.
>> >
>> > I really don't think ZA is to blame, I am running ZA 6.1.744.001 which
>> > is
>> > old but stable, then new versions I found unreliable.
>> >
>> > This version of ZA has no cookie control.
>> >
>> > One thing I have noticed that puzzles me.
>> >
>> > The location for cookies in IE is E:\Documents and Settings\Mike\Local
>> > Settings\Temporary Internet Files
>> >
>> > yet the system location for cookies is shown as user C:\Documents and
>> > Settings\Mike\Cookies
>> >
>> > Two locations for the same thing?
>> >
>> > I did a IE reset today and I can now add sites to the allowed list and
>> > they
>> > do stay there, however when I close and re start IE the log in info is
>> > still
>> > lost.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> The tech was telling you that they don't think any of the updates you
>> >> installed have anything to do with your problem, Mike.
>> >>
>> >> Time to post in ZA Forums (or uninstall ZA Free, enable the Windows
>> >> Firewall
>> >> & see if the behavior persists).
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>