"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:74189423-C369-4D67-9CCF-B91C8C27E97F@microsoft.com...
> Hi James
>
> Mine occurs if I log out of IE then go back in again (sometimes)
> If you open the files location and look you will see the cookies with expiry
> date set for some long future date.
> If you double click them they will run so you can see what is inside.
> However, if you then log out and back in you will still find them in the
> list

> but if you try and run them you get a path not found error.
> Does this mean they are being removed from cookie.dat?


It would help if you explained what you meant by "run them".
E.g. if you are doing this in the TIF Viewer the reason they
would be displayed in there is because they are in the
Cookies index.dat. So the "not found" symptom would then
probably be an indication that the .txt file has been deleted
from the cache and then that could be a sign that something
is deleting files in the Cookies directory but not using the proper
API which would also get the entry out of the Cookies index.dat.

I would try running ProcMon to check on that hypothesis. ; )
Another diagnostic that I would try concurrently is Fiddler2
because my impression is that it happens mostly with sites
that do a lot of redirection, so I have been wondering if the
Cookie sometimes gets saved using one alias but needs to be
presented by another, etc. ProcMon might help clarify that too.


> What ever it is it is really annoying.

FWIW I think I have also been seeing this symptom on Vista
but I don't use Vista often enough to have been sufficiently
annoyed to try to do anything about it. Diagnosing it on XP
would be simpler I suspect. ; )


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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