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  1. October 25th, 2003, 03:50 PM #1
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    CookieWall Doesn't See Any Cookies

    I have just installed CookieWall and the installation appeared to go perfectly. I have CookieWall running and showing up in the System tray - I am running Win98SE and IE 6.0 SP1

    The trouble is that CookieWall fails to see any cookies. None ever appear to arrive and when I browse for active cookies the list is empty. I seem to have a host of cookies in the C:\Windows|Cookies subdirectory such as


    C:\WINDOWS\Cookies

    default@blackstar.co[1].txt
    default@britiron[2].txt

    Can anyone throw any light on this or point me somewhere where I find some more info before I unistall this program and try something different. I have heard good things about CookieWall but ....

    I normally lurk on the Win98 board

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  2. October 25th, 2003, 06:29 PM #2
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    Click on Config Mark. What are your settings?
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  3. October 25th, 2003, 07:23 PM #3
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    Unfortunately there's not much that I can do wrong. My settings


    Auto Start Enabled

    Monitor IE Enabled

    New Cookie Action Prompt

    Scan for Cookies Every 60 Seconds


    I have a hard disk full of cookies which it fails to find in the Browse Mode. It can either find cookies or it cannot - I guess it can't - I hate to be harsh but....

    Maybe the exe file is corrupted. I could try an uninstall and a new download. Actually I am temppted to try and find another cookie monitoring program - is there another similar program that is recommended

    thanks Mark
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    Markgc--I do not use Cookie Wall. I use CookieJar
    http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/cookiejar.asp
    CookieJar shows the cookies acquired since your last scan with CookieJar in the "Undecided" Jar. The cookies you already have are not shown in that Jar. (They show in Allowed. )
    Maybe Cookie Wall makes a similar distinction between newly acquired cookies and those that are already on the PC?
    Maybe try CookieJar and compare performance to Cookie Wall.
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  5. October 25th, 2003, 07:56 PM #5
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    Another option that is a little different but you might like to check out is Karens Cookie Viewer (it also deletes cookies).
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  6. October 25th, 2003, 07:56 PM #6
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    Thanks Jim,

    I will try Cookiejar. CookieWall does have a browse mode which is supposed to show active cookies. I presumed that cookies in the C:\Windows|cookies subdir are active cookies but maybe not. So far CoookieWall has failed to recognised or reported a single cookie - I don't think that it is going to. Oh well and I had such "high hopes"

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  7. October 25th, 2003, 08:02 PM #7
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    and I will check out Karens Cookie Viewer too.


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  8. October 25th, 2003, 08:25 PM #8
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    AnnMarie can you give me a working link to Karens Cookie Viewer

    the link that you gave is

    http://cookie viewer/


    thanlks Mark
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    Sounds like a bad install Mark. CookieWall works well on my Win95, Win98 and WinXP installations. Good luck with the other options suggested though.
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    Sorry Mark, try here.
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  11. October 25th, 2003, 09:45 PM #11
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    I see that CookieJar requires WSH and Visual Basic Runtimes.

    Is there something special that CookieWall needs to run. I am not getting any error messages but the code may not be that well written. Should I just give up on it. I couldn't find any technical support for the product or problem FAQ's.

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  12. October 25th, 2003, 10:02 PM #12
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    I see that CookieJar requires WSH and Visual Basic Runtimes.
    Karen's Cookie Viewer also needs VB6. Maybe CookieWall does too. You can download VB6 from here.
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    Is there any way to see if VB6 is already there or should I just install it anyway and see what happens


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    It will not do any harm to install it Mark. At very worst, it will just overwrite existing files. I think there is a way but I cant remember how to do it now (I've been using WinXP too long )
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    The microsoft VBrun60.exe link that you gave lists the files that are extracted - it looks like I have them but I wasn't able to check version numbers. I will try an install tomorrow but it is late now and I am going to hit the sack (11:30pm). I will do battle with it tomorrow

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