BS: PC Problem - Help!

Subject: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: GUEST,hounddog
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 01:24 PM

I would normally visit the PC users website I'm a member of for such problems, but as you'll see, this is impossible. For some reason, each of the 3 websites I am a member of will accept my username and password, but then on the next page ask me for it again. I keep going round in circles. This makes it impossible for me to use any of these websites, so there is obviously something wrong with my machine somewhere. I have not knowingly changed any settings. I have cookies turned off, but have used these sites successfully on this basis until now. What should I do? Please help!

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: mack/misophist
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:15 PM

As an experiment, I would try to re-register under a different name. If that failed, I'd try a different browser. In fact, I'd do that first. Firefox or Netscape are good choices. It sounds like a cookie problem.

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: artbrooks
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:25 PM

I assume you have done a reboot, which has a tendency to mysteriously fix odd problems. Has anything changed in your system since you were last able to successfully log in? For example, have you loaded XP SP2?

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:26 PM

I'd suspect that your browser has been set to refuse all cookies. If it's Internet Explorer, go to "Tools" and open up "Internet options", and have a look around to see if there is something you need to turn off.

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Sep 04 - 02:27 PM

Be sure that your browser accepts cookies for those sites to work. Maybe you accidentally cleaned out the ones that were in there and working before. You could use something like Google Toolbar to block the ads that come through and still let in useful cookies. (I think Yahoo also makes one--I've seen it but haven't used it. I don't know if it also blocks ads).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 12:17 PM

l have to make the toolbar move from the top back down to the bottom who do a do so?

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 01:27 PM

Good question. If you figure it out, please post it here! I'd actually like to have it as a floating separate window.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 24 Oct 04 - 01:53 PM

If you have installed WinXP SR2, it contains a popup blocker, and also resets some security settings so that cookies that were previously accepted may be blocked. If that's the problem, you can adjust settings to get the level of blocking you need. In IE, look in "Tools" - "Internet Options" on the "Privacy" tab. If needed, the "Advanced" button there lets you override the automatic settings for cookies. Other browsers should have similar adjustments.

When you log in somewhere, they pretty much have to put a cookie on your machine, so that when you go to the next page the site can look for the cookie to tell whether you're "legal."

It is also possible that you already have a cookie from the site and it's gotten fouled up some way. (Crumbled cookie syndrome.) The solution there is to just delete the existing one and go get a fresh one. Most browsers allow you to "clean out" web content, including temp files and cookies. In IE, its in "Tools" - "Internet Options" on the "General" tab. Deleting cookies there deletes ALL cookies. You can also use Windows Explorer and manually delete just the ones you want. Most Windows versions put cookies in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Cookies, where "Username" is whatever name you operate under.

Re the Toolbar location:

Just click on a blank place on the bar, hold the mouse key down and drag, and you can put it at any edge you want. So far as I know, you can't "float" it in the middle of the screen. Since it can't be out in the middle, sometimes it moves better if you go from top to one side, then from side to bottom, rather than just dragging straight from top to bottom.

If the Toolbar doesn't move for you, right click any blank space on the Toolbar, and make sure there isn't a check by "Lock Toolbar." If it's checked, just click it to turn the checkmark off to unlock, then drag.

John

Subject: RE: BS: PC Problem - Help!
From: Mr Red
Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:54 AM

mack/misophist

Firefox is an iffy choice. But different I'll grant you. If you programmed JavaScript you would find that in a hurry. Firefox will not let me save pages offline, nor use history without going on-line. The only explanation I find is that as a free product (but not a free lunch) it must be transmitting some info to somewhere on the web. It is adware. I reverted to IE5.5 because of these two problems. It reports it is Nestcape 5 in JavaScript.

But it is a good arbiter of non-standard JavaScript. And you can run both side by side at the same time as Netscape. It must drive the cookie snoopers crazy!!!