Cookie Problem -- Internet Explorer -- Can you help?

[JuryDuty]

I seem to be having a cookie problem in Internet Explorer. When I go to sites, my cookies sometimes don't work right. And when I use programs like NewsPro in a site's cgi-bin, after I sign in, it keeps forgetting who I am and sending me back to the home page.

Ironically, when I use the browser within Microsoft Money, everything works fine--so I KNOW this is an IE problem.

I've fiddled for hours with the cookie settings in IE and even deinstalled and reinstalled. But the same thing comes up. Is there some particular settings file I need to manually delete after deinstalling to be sure a new one is created?

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[woodie1]

It would help to know which version of IE you are using.

 

[JuryDuty]

Sorry--I'm using version 6 with WindowsXP with all the latest patches and hotfixes installed. Honestly, I think it was one of those hotfixes that caused the problem, because everything used to work fine.

 

[damiano]

is it a cheesy cookie?

 

[woodie1]

My XP rig is down now but if I remember right in Internet Options>Content>Advanced there are cookie adjustments. Have you tried these?

If I'm wrong someone please correct me.

 

[JuryDuty]

Originally posted by: woodie1
My XP rig is down now but if I remember right in Internet Options>Content>Advanced there are cookie adjustments. Have you tried these?

If I'm wrong someone please correct me.

No, you're correct. I've tried adjusting all of those, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem. I really think the best solution is to reinstall IE, but when I do, it stays the same. Makes me think there's some file I'm not deleting that just needs to go by a manual delete. But that's beyond me...

 

[EmeraldOracle]

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No, you're correct. I've tried adjusting all of those, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem. I really think the best solution is to reinstall IE, but when I do, it stays the same. Makes me think there's some file I'm not deleting that just needs to go by a manual delete. But that's beyond me...
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I'm having the exact same problem. I'm working on a clients computer that was bought from DELL just last month. It has WinXP Home edition and IE6 installed. I've been messing with the security setting, made the registry changes, and then reinstalled IE 6, but still no luck.

I'm thinking about looking around for a manual erase but I'm sure Microsoft has so embedded IE that it would be impossible with out screwing up windows to fully uninstall IE 6.

I will mention that I installed Netscape 6 and there were no problems there. Tried IE right afterwards and the problem was still there.

I also checked on another DELL winXP home edition machine (w/ie6) that arrived last friday and there were NO problems with that machine.

for some reason it acts as if there are any cookies even trying to be saved to it? I changed the setting to prompt me about the cookie but when I go to a site (ie: Windows UPdates) it never prompts me.


:disgust:

 

[EmeraldOracle]

Ok I GOT a FIX!


well it worked for me so maybe it will work for you.

these are the step I did that worked in WinXP home.

1. Modify registry mycomputer\Hkey_local_machine\Software\Microsoft\active setup\Installed components\{89820200-ECBD-11cf-8B85-00AA005B4383
and change the "IsInstalled" from 1 to 0 --- Then Reboot.

2. Go to "c:\program files\internet explorer" and erase all of the files and folders (except the Connection Wizard which you can't delete) Don't worry if iexplore.exe and a DLL file magically reappear!

3. Go into Regedit, search the "Current User" and "Local Machine" and erase the Internet Explorer entries.

If you now use the iexplore.exe it should work fine.
I also ran ie6setup.exe again to reinstall IE6 and it still worked after the reinstallation.

Windows updates still says there are no new updates but the other sites that were not working are now working fine!

I hope this helps

 

[JuryDuty]

Well, I tried it and everything went along fine, but I still have the same problem.

Originally posted by: EmeraldOracle
3. Go into Regedit, search the "Current User" and "Local Machine" and erase the Internet Explorer entries.

Can you explain exactly which entries you are erasing here? I think this may be where my problem lies. I had a TON of IE-related entries in my registry.

 

[EmeraldOracle]

The entries I erase were things like "software/microsoft/windows/internet explorer" etc... I did a search for "Internet Explorer"
and all the entries that look like directories with IE info in a sub folder got erased. There were a bunch of them that had things like "Quicktim/plug-in" These items are not directly involved with IE so I left them. Reg entries that just refer to IE link shortcut paths I left alone everything else got canned.

I looked for stuff like DLL and any else that looked like it could beinvolved with IE. I just took each find as it came. I erased most of the entries, figuring once I reinstall it will put them back anyways.

*** REMEMBER TO DO A REG BACKUP FIRST ***