"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2E14597E-B205-4631-A4D6-D6204FE84C4C@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> Sorry for some reason reply notification failed!
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> I have installed ProcMon.
>
> Can you tell me what to look for and how to set it up please?


I'd try filtering on Process Name is iexplore.exe (Include)
and Path contains Cookie (Include). And probably try
highlighting Operation is WriteFile. Etc.


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>
> Just out of interest.
>
> Today I tried setting my cookie folder to read only (this is the filde that
> holds the text viewable cookies) this made no differance.
> I then set index dat to read only, again cookies were lost.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mike
>
> "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
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>> "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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