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Hi Friends,
I'm not sure to which board I should post this.  This one is my best guess, but please move it if there's a better one for this problem.

I was just adding a website to my IE 6 Cookie Handling List.  I generally have my browser set to block all cookies.  Then the few websites where I need to allow cookies, I just add those to the list, and set to Allow.  Plus, there are many websites in this list, set to Block, either by default, or by some security program (I have quite a few, these days.)  I really have no idea where they came from.  Anyway, when I added the URL, and clicked Allow, I got an error/dialog box, which said something about the proper way to type URLs.  So, I thought it was a typo, but after I OK'd the error/dialog box away, I saw the URL in the list, set to Allow, just like I wanted.  (Well, they're not exactly URLs...they're...domains, I think is the right word.)

So, the domain(?) is one with which I'm not familiar -- instead of .com, .org, .net, or .edu on the end -- it's .info.  And while I was pondering theses circumstances, my wrist involuntarily twitched, jerked the mouse, and my finger clicked the mouse button.  (this happens from time to time, muscle twitches, and is related to a medical condition, so not to worry)  Somehow this wiped out ALL the entries in the cookie domain list!!  And even though I closed the Privacy window, and the Options window, without clicking OK, they are permanently lost. :(


How can I get them back?  I'm thinking that reinstalling whichever program put them there, would be a good place to start.  But I don't know which program put them there.  And I would really like to avoid reinstalling IE.  Can someone give me some guidance here?

I'm using Windows XP, IE 6, Norton Internet Security 2005, CWShredder, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D, IE-SpyAd, Hijack This, and I think that's all.  There might be a couple more that don't scan, but that's most of them.

Thanks very much  :)

Brynn,
you may wish to download a Free Cookie manager called CookieWall (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/cookie.htm) to take care of all your Cookie's for you.
(Tracking Cookie's are always safe to delete)
see our Updates & Alerts (http://www.landzdown.com/index.php/board,10.0.html) pages on the forum to update your  IE-SpyAd (https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/ehowes/www/resource.htm) along with others that you have (https://www.landzdown.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsmilies.sofrayt.com%2Ffsc%2Fthumbs-up.gif&hash=c1e3dd78f2962d425885915fa02daf0bba965636)

GR@PH;<'S   :breakkie:

Good news!

The problem seems to be solved!  So YAY :!:
However, I have no idea how it happened  :uhm:
I was away from my machine for the past couple of days.  I leave it turned on most of the time, but I have the power options set to go into standby after 2 hours of inactivity.  So when I brought it back up from standby tonight, the cookie handling list is completely repopulated.  Well, except for what I had entered.  What I got back was the list that was put there by one of my security programs.  So the individual domains(?) which I had entered myself, are still missing.  But it won't be a problem to enter them again.

Here's what I don't get, though -- I had even shut down and restarted to try to get the list back, and it didn't work.  So what is it about standby that's different from shut down.  I had thought of standby and shut down as similar states, and that if either one had the ability to "reset"  or restore the list, it would be shut down.  But this experience would indicate something different -- that standby is the better choice in this situation, if nothing else.

Go figure  :roll:
Thanks again for listening to my problems.  And thanks for the tip on cookie managers  :)
All best.

Brynn :D

I'm happy to hear that your problem was solved, but unfortunately I can't provide you with a fully reliable answer on how it exactly was achieved in the end.

Just want to express my opinion on GR@PH;<'S tip on CookieWall which is a fantastic small application in it's simplicity.
I've used it for several years and it's very helpful in it's blocking abilities, but nowadays I don't use MS internet Explorer anymore.

Jason ;)