The main Cookie Pal window

The main Cookie Pal window can be displayed by either double clicking on the taskbar tray icon or by right clicking the tray icon and selecting the Show option from the pop-up menu. When the main window is displayed it can be hidden again by minimizing it, by double clicking on the taskbar tray icon again or by right clicking the tray icon and selecting the Hide option from the pop-up menu.

 

Closing the main window (using the X button in the top-right corner) will either completely shut down Cookie Pal or it will just hide the main window depending on the setting of the Exit when main window is closed option on the Configure tab.

 

The main window can be resized by moving the mouse cursor to any border of the window. When the mouse cursor changes to a double ended arow, click and drag the mouse to change the window size. The window size and position will be remembered for the next time that Cookie Pal is run.

 

The main Cookie Pal window contains several tabbed pages which display different information and let you accomplish different maintenance tasks. You can click on the tab for each page to display that page. The following tabs are displayed:

 

Session

This tab displays the web sites from which cookies have been received in the current session.

Filters

This tab display a list of filters. Filters allow you to specify web sites from which you wish to accept and reject cookies. You can also specify what to do with cookies received from web sites for which you do not have a specific filter set up.

Cookies

This tab displays a list of cookies which are already stored on your computer for both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. You can view the cookies and delete them if you wish.

Sounds

This tab allows you to select custom sounds to be played when cookies are accepted and rejected by Cookie Pal, and when the confirmation window is displayed. You can also disable the standard sound played by your web browser when a cookie is received on this page.

Configure

This tab allows you to configure Cookie Pal. You can define the text which Cookie Pal uses to recognize cookie alerts displayed by your browser. This is set up by default for English language versions of these browsers, but may be different for other languages. You can also set startup options for Cookie Pal here.

 

The main window also contains the following buttons along the bottom of the window:

 

Ordering…

This button displays a help topic with information about how to order Cookie Pal.

 

Register…

This button displays a dialog box which allows you to enter your registration information once you have registered your copy of Cookie Pal.

 

About…

This button displays the program copyright message, version number and registered user information.

 

Help

This button displays a help topic for the tab which is currently displayed in the main window.