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Thread #77509 Message #1383211
Posted By: JohnInKansas
20-Jan-05 - 10:46 AM
Thread Name: Tech: how do I keep my cookie?
Subject: RE: BS/tech: how do I keep my cookie?
WinXP always sets up Administrator, All Users, and Default User "accounts," and it's almost impossible to turn it on the first time without putting in a "Named" user, which would be the one you normally open up. It's pretty easy to add another one.
Make one for yourself, put a password on it, and make a separate one for her. She can have her own cookies, and delete them whenever she wants to. If you don't give her your password, she won't be able to delete yours - unless you also let her log on as Administrator.
Just be ABSOLUTELY SURE if you start making additional accounts, that you put a password on the Administrator account and DON'T LOOSE IT. You may find, even if you assign "Administrator" authority to some of the other users, that some things will require that you log in as "THE ADMINISTRATOR" to make system changes.
In IE, you can also use File - Import and Export, follow the Wizard to export your cookies. Then after she deletes them, you can use the same routine to put them all back in - if you remember where you put them. The cookies are simple text files, so you can usually just copy them and paste them somewhere else, but when you paste them back there is a "cookie index" that doesn't always update and the cookies - rarely - may not show up. If you use the Import Wizard, they're almost always usable. Some cookies also "expire" after a time, so bringing one back from a really old backup location may not make it work if it's died in storage.