Location of Cookies File in Internet Explorer

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These "cookie variables" are stored on the client computer, and hold information that is sent to the server upon connection. Cookies are usually used to hold personal preferences for a web page. As an example, http://www.msn.com uses cookies to set up a "custom page" for any user with a browser that supports cookies.

The location of the cookie files on Internet Explorer are in the following locations:

• Internet Explorer 1.5 for Windows NT: %systemroot%\cookie.jar
• Internet Explorer 2.0: \Program Files\Plus!\Microsoft Internet\cookies.txt
• Internet Explorer 3.0 for Windows NT: %systemroot%\COOKIES\<username>@<sitename>.txt
• Internet Explorer 3.0 for Windows 95: \Windows\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 3.0 for Windows for Workgroups and Windows NT version 3.51: Internet Explorer installation directory as the file name Emcookie.dat.
• Internet Explorer 4.x for Windows 95: \%windir%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 4.x for Windows 98: \%windir%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 4.x for Windows NT: \%systemroot%\profiles\%username%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 95: \%windir%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 98: \%windir%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt
• Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows NT: \%systemroot%\profiles\%username%\Cookies\ <username>@<site name>.txt

The location of cookies can also change on computers running Windows 95/98 if User Profiles are enabled, so that they are stored in the \%windir%\profiles\username\cookies directory.