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Trying to find my old username

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  • 20-07-2007 11:25am
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    popebenny16
    Registered Users Posts: 2,461 ✭✭✭


    Many moons ago when I first found boards.ie i had a user name which isn't popebenny16. Now, before you all go duplicate accounts what happened was that I moved house twice and got a new pc and didn't post for about a year or more. When i went to re-log realised I forgot my details. It turns out that the e-mail i had at the time was also gone (it was a subscription e-mail) and so i couldn't get the old confirmation details or anything.

    Anyway, I have got that old PC back (I had given it to the brother) and what I want to do is find out my old log-in. I want to find out when ~I was a user and how many posts i had because we're coming up to the 10th year of boards and I just want to be able to say how long I've been here and all that. I tried the rewind sites for old pics of boards just too see if i can find a post of mine, but i cant.

    So, at long last the question is what should I be looking for on my old PC (it has windows ME) and where should I look? When I find out what it was I'll post it here and perhaps one of the admins can simply ban that old account if anyone is worried about it being used.


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Not sure what you can do with your old PC. All you can really do is have a look in your temporary internet files. Not sure where this is on Windows ME, it may be in C:\Windows\Profiles\<username>\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\

    Within this folder, look for cookies. They'll appear as text documents. Look for one called username@www.boards.ie or something like that.

    Open it with notepad, and it'll look odd, but you should see something like "username=<username>" which should be your old username.

    Other than that, if an admin takes a look at this, they can search the database by email address, so if you can remember that, then they may be able to find it.


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