Gmail Notifier Logged onto the Wrong Account - Not My Account

My dad’s computer has the Gmail Notifier installed. For some time now, he’s been getting notifications when I get new emails. “Hey, that’s not my account!”

We tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. Nope, still my email. There’s no option on the program to log out or log in. We use Firefox as our default browser, and nothing we did there had any effect.

The reason why the Gmail notifier logged into the wrong account is that it actually ties in with your Internet Explorer cookies. This is a pretty weird– and bad, in my opinion– way to do it.

Firing up Internet Explorer and clearing its cookies and cache fixed the problem.

Hope this helps someone.

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Resources: Gmail notifier checking wrong account; Gmail notifier won’t let me use my own account (Google Groups)

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16 Responses to “Gmail Notifier Logged onto the Wrong Account - Not My Account”

  1. Gmail Notifier: Not My Account at Elliot Lee on October 20th, 2007 at 12:19 am

    [...] Gmail notifier logged onto the wrong account [...]

  2. Thanks! on November 15th, 2007 at 9:24 am

    I’ve been trying to figure out why its doing this. How retarded. Thanks for the help!

  3. Frank on December 7th, 2007 at 7:30 am

    Thanks!! You are a lifesaver. This has been happened to me all week - I can’t live without gmail notifier.

  4. idovermani on December 10th, 2007 at 8:24 am

    This was driving me insane. Very lucky I stumbled upon your post. thanks a bunch.

  5. Dan on January 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Thank you so much for figuring this out! It’s been driving me crazy - after I tried all the things you did, I didn’t know what else to do, but you’re a lifesaver!

  6. Dustin on January 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

    Hallelujah! That has been driving me nuts and my wife (a MAC lover) has been rubbing it in: “Just another reason why macs are better than pcs.” Now I can rub it in to her. Thanks for the help!

    Dustin

  7. Daghall on February 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am

    Thank you! I tried clearing my FireFox cookies but I did not think of the IE ones… Why should I - I only use it for Windows Update.

  8. Mike on February 26th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    Thanks!

    This helped me.

  9. Ashley on March 1st, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Thank you! Didn’t even think about this. It sure did help me out. :D

  10. Claire on March 20th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Thank you so much for this, it’s great to get that fixed!

  11. Zack on April 1st, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Wow, I’ve spent the last 30 minutes clearing my firefox and safari caches, didnt even think of IE’s lol, thank you so much, that was really frustrating me

  12. Andy on April 9th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Thanks! This was driving me nuts!

  13. Willem on April 16th, 2008 at 5:02 am

    Thanks, this helped a lot!

    Much appreciated!

    Regards
    Willem

  14. Jeff on April 21st, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    For those who don’t wish to lose all their cookies,
    The specific cookie is here:
    %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Cookies\*@mail.google*.txt

    which equates to this on my computer:
    C:\Documents and Settings\Jeff\Cookies\jeff@mail.google[2].txt

    Thanks for the info!

  15. myself on May 5th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    thanks so much - teasing me for one week..

  16. Russell G. on May 7th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    Thanks!

    On my computer the cookies were:

    %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Cookies\russellg@mail[1].txt
    and
    %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Cookies\russellg@mail[3].txt

    Go to Start / Run and enter this, to see the cookies folder:

    %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Cookies

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