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RYRY,
rkasteel@shaw.ca
That does work if you're careful with the Enter key.
Nope.
rkasteel@shaw.ca
All you have to do is Save the message.
What am I missing?
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:eIZ1ElYOFHA.2348@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
RYRY <rkasteel@shaw.ca> hunted and pecked:
> i can show you how to not make hyperlinks. you right-click it then
> properties and then select the text that has the so-called "site".
> then delete it.
>
> --
> RYRY
>
> "Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:eANqYJYOFHA.3380@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Cookies are text files. I.e. somename.txt. They can be opened with
>> Notepad.
>>
>> wesley p. vogelatcomcast[1].txt I chaged the @ sign to at because OE
>> tries to make a hyperlink. This is a cookie from comcast.net for me.
>>
>> I did the same here... AdMiNatCoMcAsT[1].tXt This is a cookie from
>> comcast.net for someone named admin. Ring any bells??
>>
>> What happens if you drag AdMiNatCoMcAsT[1].tXt out of the TIF folder
>> to the Desktop and try to delete it??
>>
>> As with anything involving Temporary Internet Files, this gets
>> confusing.
>>
>> The "cookies" in the Temporary Internet Files Folder are just
>> pointers to
>> the real cookies.
>>
>> Real cookies are stored here >>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Cookies
>>
>> The Delete Cookies button deletes the cookies here >>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Cookies
>>
>> But it also deletes the pointers to the real cookies here >>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name Here\Local Settings\Temporary
>> Internet
>> Files
>>
>> If you manually delete a cookie file from the Temporary Internet
>> Files folder, both the pointer to the Cookies folder and the cookie
>> file located
>> in the Cookies folder are deleted.
>>
>> If you delete a cookie from the cookies folder it leaves the pointer
>> to the
>> cookie behind. But it's worthless. Just like a shortcut that does
>> not point to anything.
>>
>> To delete a cookie
>> 1 In Internet Explorer, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
>> 2 On the General tab, click Settings, and then click View files.
>> 3 Select the cookie you want to delete, and then, on the File menu,
>> click
>> Delete.
>>
>> To delete all of the cookies on your computer, click Delete Cookies
>> on the
>> General tab.
>>
>> To delete *all* Temporary Internet Files...
>>
>> 1) Start | Run | Type: inetcpl.cpl | OK
>> Or right click the Internet Explorer icon on your Desktop.
>> Or: Start | Settings | Control Panel | Internet Options.
>> Best to do this with all instances of Internet Explorer closed.
>> Especially
>> if there are a large number of files.
>> 2) On the General Tab, in the middle of the screen, click on Delete
>> Files
>> 3) Check the box ? Delete all offline content {This cleans >>
>> C:\Documents
>> and Settings\YourNameHere\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files AND
>> C:\Documents and Settings\YourNameHere\Local Settings\Temporary
>> Internet Files\Content.IE5 and \Content.MSO (Created by an MS Office
>> program) 4) Click on OK and wait for the hourglass icon to stop
>> after it deletes the
>> temporary internet files
>> 5) You can now click on Delete Cookies and click OK to delete cookies
>> that
>> websites have placed on your hard drive.
>>
>> --
>> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>>
>> Wes
>> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> In news:vZednZfRAIcgZ83fRVn-2g@comcast.com,
>> Richard Cramer <RTCramer@RecordableMail.com> hunted and pecked:
>>> The "cookie" is not in the Cookies folder. It's in the
>>> Temporary Internet Files folder. And no, I still couldn't
>>> delete it in safe mode.
>>>
>>> #That's Him! That's Cramer!#
>>>
>>>
>>> "José Gallardo" wrote in quoted_printable:
>>> Try this: Restart in safe mode (when BIOS screen turns black,
>>> hit several times F8 and choose that option), login in an
>>> Administrator account, and go to folder
>>> X:\Documents and Settings\[your_account]\cookies. See if
>>> you can delete the cookie manually.
>>>
>>>
>>> "Richard Cramer" wrote:
>>>> Hi. My Windows XP system has started freezing, usually
>>>> when I access the Internet via http or nntp. There has also
>>>> appeared a "cookie" in Temporary Internet Files that I
>>>> cannot delete. This "cookie" has a non-printable file name
>>>> that Windows Explorer cannot display, but it appears to
>>>> be about 12 characters long. Clicking on Properties reveals
>>>> that the "cookie" is 88 bytes long and has a "cache name"
>>>> of AdMiN@CoMcAsT[0]0tXt, where the 0 is actually a
>>>> character displayed as a narrow hollow vertical rectangle.
>>>> The "X" in "tXt" is an upper case "x". It appears that the
>>>> tXt" is to disguise a file (perhaps an executable file) as a
>>>> .txt file, and I therefore have avoided opening it.
>>>>
>>>> "Admin" is my account username on the PC, and it has
>>>> administrator privileges. "Comcast" is my ISP. I have no
>>>> Comcast software installed that I know of, and I suspect
>>>> the name segment "AdMiN@CoMcAsT" was synthesized
>>>> automatically from these two names.
>>>>
>>>> I have run a full system scan with Ad-Aware and Norton
>>>> Anti-Virus, but no malware was found.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know what's going on and how I can get
>>>> rid of this "cookie"?
>>>>
>>>> #That's Him! That's Cramer!#
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