Indicium wrote:
> @ VanguardLH: the problem can not (') be solved by visiting the "Control
> Panel -> User Account -> Manage my network passwords". Windows Live ID is
> stored without having a network.
You don't mention if you even looked. This is where Passport got stored;
see
http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/passport1.php. Well, Microsoft
moved to Live for their credentials so I figured if Passport got its
credentials saved here that Live would also get saved here. This credential
caching is described at:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281660
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306541
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306992
It is also possible that you installed an add-in to the web browser that is
auto-filling the input controls for the login objects in a web page. For
example, did you install (and leave installed) the Windows Live Sign-In
Assistant add-on? Every time you install anything "Live", a bunch of
fluffware also gets installed. At one time, you could deselect the
fluffware but now Microsoft includes it as a minimum bundleware package with
any Live product. Did you ever test when loading IE in its no add-ons mode
(i.e., using the -extoff command-line switch)?
Cookies only allow a small amount of storage on your host: typically 300
cookies total, 20 cookies per domain, 4096 bytes per cookie. These are the
recommended minimums [but are *not* required] by RFC 2109. IE goes its own
way with a maximum cookie count of 20 (but got upped to 50) with a total of
4096 bytes maximum consumed by all cookies (upped to 10KB in IE
; see (see
http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/08/20/WinINET-IE-Cookie-Internals-FAQ.aspx.
You'll have to do your own research regarding maximums in other web
browsers. Some web servers also have their own maximums. Apache will fail
with "Size of a request header field exceeds server limit" if the total of
all cookies retrieved by the Cookie: request header exceeds 8190 bytes.
Another source of cookies are with Flash which has its own .sol files. You
can manage how big they can become or if any are saved on your host at all.
Cookies are not the only means of saving site data (euphemistically called
"user data" for a site) on your host. User persistent data is a separate
cache and allows far more storage of site data on your host. Check if you
have the following options enabled:
Internet Options
- Advanced tab
Security section
Enable DOM Storage
- Security tab
<pick a security zone, like Internet>
Custom Level
Miscellaneous section
Userdata persistence
See:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197062(VS.85).aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOM_storage
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:Storage#Description
DOM storage is new as of IE8 (
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/). As I
recall, the persistent data is stored under the %userprofile%\UserData
folder for IE. Other web browsers have their own DOM storage location
(e.g., Firefox uses an SQLlite file). I've had these options disabled for
so long and probably did cleanup at the time that there is nothing to find
on my host under this folder. There may be freeware that not only purges
the classic .txt cookies (and possibly the Flash .sol cookies) but also the
UserData records.