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Cookies

Aug 3, 2005 2:05AM PDT

I use IE6 and just because I am familiar with it , I would like to continue using it, but on so many sites ,I get the "cookies must be enabled" thing.
Now I have enabled cookies every way I can think of and still get the message on some sites.
I can enter that site in the trusted list and all will be OK but thats a pain.
Any Idea what I have set wrong?
Thanks
Gene

I can use firefox and get to those sites but as I said I would prefer to use IE.

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Common problems...
Aug 3, 2005 3:36AM PDT

You said you've tried evrything you can think of, but without listing what you have tried, I'll start with the standard route. Go tools->internet options->privacy(tab) and make sure the slider is set to medium or medium-high. You can also click on the advanced button and have IE allow first-party cookies, and prompt you for all third-party cookies.

Next, go to the "general" tab and press "settings"...sometimes cookies can't be stored if there isn't enough space left. Thus, try increasing the space (recommended is 30MB), or deleting some/all of the cookies/files.

If that doesn't work, let us know what internet security programs you are running (Norton, McAfee, ZoneAlarm, etc), and many of these utilities have features which block cookies.

Hope this helps,
John

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I had those settings
Aug 3, 2005 4:31AM PDT

Now I removed all names from the allow/block list
and all seems to be working.
Hopefully that was not too big of a mistake.
Thanks for your time
Gene