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Old August 15th 10, 11:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Twayne[_3_]
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Default How to change username in cookies? e.g. [email protected]

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franklin-xy typed:
franklin-xy wrote:

The filename of each cookie file contains my Windows
username in the section before the "@", e.g.
, comes from the Windows account name.
That username is identical for every cookie produced from
my browsing, and as it has my family name I wish to change
it as that information is visible to http traffic. So, I
will await someone who knows how Windows user profiles
work to snswer the real questions:

I want to remove that family name from future cookies.
What do I have to do? If I simply use the User Accounts
Control Panel to change the account name that is
displayed, will that change future cookies?

Or, does the username in cookies come from the user
directory name?



"VanguardLH" wrote:

the web browser decides what filename to use for
that cookie.



Obviously the web browser is a local program that can find
out under what Windows account it is running.

The username is the one assigned to your account, not the
name of your user profile's folder.



This answer is incorrect.

I changed the Windows user profile username, then rebooted
and ensured that Windows was running under the new
username. New cookies were created using the old username
in the filoename, in the usual format of
.

So, does the username in cookies come actually from the
user directory name? If that is the case, then presumably
I must make changes such that Windows will use a different
user directory name, either by changing the current
user directory name or by creating a new user profile.


Is the best method to create a new Windows user profile,
and then copy user data from the old user profile to the
new profile as detailed here?:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;811151

I read about that method, and another method that involves
editing the registry key "RegisteredOwner" at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion, so I'm seeking to know the best method.

And, if I then do copy over the user data from the old user
profile to the new profile, will my applications all work
afterwards retaining my prefs, settings, etc., or will I
need to edit any paths anywhere?


I've noticed when I'm online with one user account name that's the one used
in the cookies. If I go online using a different account name, that's the
name gets used in the cookies.
As of this thread though, since that was a long time ago, I'm repeating
the tests again. I'm real curious what's changed, but ... it doesn't really
bother me.

HTH,

Twayne`


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