OT: Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??

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Jim Thompson

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I'm sure everyone is, by now, aware that I had a fatal computer crash.

Fortunately it's all backed up.

Question: How do I restore Internet Explorer's Favorites, Cookies,
etc.??

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:45:10 GMT, "Genome" <genome@nothere.com> wrote:

"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:pfb0h0hiv6eoe3bsg0inrrb4ush9ph0j9k@4ax.com...
| I'm sure everyone is, by now, aware that I had a fatal computer crash.
|
| Fortunately it's all backed up.
|
| Question: How do I restore Internet Explorer's Favorites, Cookies,
| etc.??
|
| ...Jim Thompson

Windows by default should install all its shit all over your computer.
Consider yourself lucky that it isn't.

DNA
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You misconscrewed my meaning.

I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:pfb0h0hiv6eoe3bsg0inrrb4ush9ph0j9k@4ax.com...
| I'm sure everyone is, by now, aware that I had a fatal computer crash.
|
| Fortunately it's all backed up.
|
| Question: How do I restore Internet Explorer's Favorites, Cookies,
| etc.??
|
| ...Jim Thompson

Windows by default should install all its shit all over your computer.
Consider yourself lucky that it isn't.

DNA
 
"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:jiq1h0lcu0mvqgnse7torc3mth9ss8hm6s@4ax.com...
On Wed, 04 Aug 2004 14:45:10 GMT, "Genome" <genome@nothere.com> wrote:


"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:pfb0h0hiv6eoe3bsg0inrrb4ush9ph0j9k@4ax.com...
| I'm sure everyone is, by now, aware that I had a fatal computer crash.
|
| Fortunately it's all backed up.
|
| Question: How do I restore Internet Explorer's Favorites, Cookies,
| etc.??

Windows by default should install all its shit all over your computer.
Consider yourself lucky that it isn't.

You misconscrewed my meaning.

I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.
Click to expand...
Assuming you have your machine set up for *one* user (i.e. no
"profiles"), restore the <WINDOWSDIR>/Favorites and
<WINDOWSDIR>/Cookies folders.

--don

N.B. Incoming mail is unconditionally and silently discarded.
 
I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <pfb0h0hiv6eoe3bsg0inrrb4ush9ph0j9k@
4ax.com>) about 'OT: Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Tue,
3 Aug 2004:
I'm sure everyone is, by now, aware that I had a fatal computer crash.

Fortunately it's all backed up.

Question: How do I restore Internet Explorer's Favorites, Cookies,
etc.??
Click to expand...
You probably don't, if you have lost the original files. In any case,
why do you want to restore cookies? By and large, they are a menace. I
spray them with cookie-killer from time to time. They should be called
'roaches', not 'cookies'. In any case, in UK they should be 'biscuits'.
(;-)
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <jiq1h0lcu0mvqgnse7torc3mth9ss8hm6s@
4ax.com>) about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug
2004:
I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.
Click to expand...
That's the downside. Cookies are frivolous or malign. Serious
organizations that use them should be less ignorant.

I have to work with a site that is very important to me that uses all
sorts of weird third-party tools, including stuff that Microsoft doesn't
support in IE6. It's causing me endless problems, since February this
year when I had to start using it.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <jiq1h0lcu0mvqgnse7torc3mth9ss8hm6s@
4ax.com>) about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug
2004:
I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.

That's the downside. Cookies are frivolous or malign. Serious
organizations that use them should be less ignorant.
Click to expand...
Frivolous or malign? Perhaps you are the ignorant one.


Tim
--
Google is not the only search engine.
 
On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:12:03 +0100, the renowned John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

You probably don't, if you have lost the original files. In any case,
why do you want to restore cookies? By and large, they are a menace. I
spray them with cookie-killer from time to time. They should be called
'roaches', not 'cookies'. In any case, in UK they should be 'biscuits'.
(;-)
Click to expand...
It's a minor PITA to have to re-subscribe to newspaper sites and so
on, but of course you can just restore the files if you have them
backed up.

I don't know how you restore those handy little buttons and
customizable icons on the top bar of IE. Probably you don't.

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com
 
I read in sci.electronics.design that Tim Auton <tim.auton@uton.[groupSe
xWithoutTheY]> wrote (in <mp72h01ri61dopvtl53vasream93bv9p67@4ax.com>)
about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug 2004:
John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <jiq1h0lcu0mvqgnse7torc3mth9ss8hm6s@
4ax.com>) about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug
2004:
I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.

That's the downside. Cookies are frivolous or malign. Serious
organizations that use them should be less ignorant.

Frivolous or malign? Perhaps you are the ignorant one.

Would you deign to provide enlightenment, or are you just throwing
Click to expand...
insults around for kicks?
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk
 
Spehro Pefhany wrote:

On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:12:03 +0100, the renowned John Woodgate
jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

You probably don't, if you have lost the original files. In any case,
why do you want to restore cookies? By and large, they are a menace. I
spray them with cookie-killer from time to time. They should be called
'roaches', not 'cookies'. In any case, in UK they should be 'biscuits'.
(;-)

It's a minor PITA to have to re-subscribe to newspaper sites and so
on, but of course you can just restore the files if you have them
backed up.

I don't know how you restore those handy little buttons and
customizable icons on the top bar of IE. Probably you don't.

It depends which ones you're talking about :) Some of them just
Click to expand...
show up, some are bookmarks; then I've got yahoo and google and ebay
toolbars;

I never use any of them. How do you make them go away?

Thanks,
Rich
 
John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Tim Auton <tim.auton@uton.[groupSe
xWithoutTheY]> wrote (in <mp72h01ri61dopvtl53vasream93bv9p67@4ax.com>)
about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug 2004:
John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote (in <jiq1h0lcu0mvqgnse7torc3mth9ss8hm6s@
4ax.com>) about 'Restoring IE Favorites, Cookies, etc.??', on Wed, 4 Aug
2004:
I want to restore MY favorites, cookies, etc., that I had for locating
useful URLs, communicating with bank and credit card accounts, etc.

That's the downside. Cookies are frivolous or malign. Serious
organizations that use them should be less ignorant.

Frivolous or malign? Perhaps you are the ignorant one.

Would you deign to provide enlightenment, or are you just throwing
insults around for kicks?
Click to expand...
If it were me, I'd chide you about the use of "mailgn" about cookies.
A cookie itself can't _do_ anything - it's just a text snippet. When
your browser puts out a page request, if it has any cookies, it will
send them out along with the request. I presume that it's smart enough
to keep it to domain-specific cookies - and the server can read them
and find whatever information it put there before when it set the
cookie. If your browser doesn't have any cookies corresponding to that
site, and the site author wants to, it can set a cookie, say, with
your membername and preferences for something on their site. That's
pretty much all they can do. I've never even heard of a browser trying
to execute anything in a cookie - I suppose people could find out
your "personal information" by reading your http request headers, but
so what? It's pretty much a matter of public record once it's sent
anyway.

Cheers!
Rich
 
"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:pga2h01n90om1eau7s2ov6ei2aiaq67m7l@4ax.com
I don't know how you restore those handy little buttons and
customizable icons on the top bar of IE. Probably you don't.
Click to expand...
Save a REG file with these keys. I have one that I restore every time I
boot, because the IE toolbar here sometimes changes all by itself.

(The first one isn't for the toolbar, but it's also about user
settings.)

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Toolbar\Explorer]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Toolbar\ShellBrowser]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]
 
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