Re: Adding another user to XP what information is shared online?

From: Colin Nash [MVP] (x_at_x)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:22:28 -0500

"jodielynn" <jodielynn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:878CD3BA-C780-41EB-A535-29FF96530406@microsoft.com...
>I belong to several game sites on-line. If I'm in one site I can't log into
> that site with 2 different names.
>
> But if I create another user on my PC I can go back and forth from one
> user
> to the other and actually play as 2 people on the same game site but it's
> not
> beneficial to do so since it takes time to switch from one user to the
> next.
>
> Some of the sites that I found have auto cheat programs on other sites
> that
> you can try for free for a limited time then they expire. But I found out
> that if I create a new user on XP I can log into that new XP user and use
> the
> name that just used up there time with the free trial version.
>
> Example:
>
> Sally gets on her PC then goes to the game site and uses the free auto
> program the free time expires and she can't use it any longer.
>
> Sally gets back on her PC and creates another profile named Jane in XP.
> Then
> she goes back to the game site using Jane as the user on her PC but when
> she
> goes to the game site she logs in as Sally and is able to use another free
> trial.
>
> The only difference is she used another name on her own PC "NOT" the game
> site she used her name.
>
> So my question is what file are the game sites using or looking for when a
> user logs on?
>
> Could Sally just find this file and delete it and keep reusing the trial
> versions without having to create another XP user on her PC?
>

The web site is probably using cookie files. In Internet Explorer, you can
go to Tools--> Internet Options and delete cookies using the button there.
See here for info about "cookies"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;260971 

-- 
Colin Nash
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User