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[compudodo]

ok...think everything went ok....the laptop is rebooting. i got it into my head I HATE HATE HATE big brother watching me...so I went into tools, internet options and i changed the way cookies are handled....i changed it to prompt...which is a huge pain because the boxes keep popping up a million times... so I then clicked the box that said, remember this for this website...and I seem to have knocked out my capacity to use msn. hotmail and msn games, both of which need cookies to run.... so I've gone back in a million times, let cookies have it 's way with me....still no dice, it's remembering that I said before that I did not want the cookies, tried rebooting, starting all over, resetting the cookies to allow everything...still I can't access my hotmail or the games, they keep telling me they won't run without cookies. so I figure I have to uninstall IE?????

[compudodo]

that's odd..... only one DDS report was still left on my desktop..... so I just deleted it. edit.... this guy kikesan has been lurking here all night long...gives me the creeps to even type the word kike..... DON"T like his moniker and it's just creeping me out...go away

Edited by compudodo, 21 April 2011 - 12:11 AM.

[Tomk]

Candice,

That was rude. There is a fairly famous Photographer named Kike San Martin, in fact Kike is not that rare of a name. Why would you let someones name creep you out? I realize that it sounds like a racial slur to you but you've just let your personal "bias" lash out and belittle a person because of the name that was (probably) bestowed upon them by their parents. Apparently, to protect the sensibilities of Jewish people, it's OK to trash the culture of Mexico?

I understand that this computer stuff is frustrating for you... but that gives you no right to be rude to others. You have the right to feel what you feel... but keep it to yourself. It has no place on this forum.


As far as cookies and MSN go.. give this a try.

• In Internet Explorer, click Tools> Internet Options> Privacy and press Default.
• Clear the cookies, in case an existing cookie is causing problems. In IE, go to Tools> Internet Options> General> and press Delete Cookies.
• Clear the cache, in case a page is not being correctly refreshed. In IE, go to Tools> Internet Options> General> and press Delete Files, and be sure to check Delete all offline content prior to clicking OK.

[compudodo]

yes, after hours on the computer trying this fix and that fix and nothing going right, it gets frustrating.... it also is darn frustrating to have some total stranger constantly WATCHING what is going on here, with everything about my computer life splayed out before all the world to see with all the files just out there on those dds logs. you just feel naked. so it was creeping me out, being watched all night long.... i wasn't belittling his NAME, it just was making me uncomfortable and yeah, I didn't like him lurking here for five hours, he was always on when I was on and obviously reading all my stuff and that felt like stalking because ALL my computer stuff is displayed for all to see and yeppers, I'm a flaming northern liberal living now in the still segregated south, and truly one of the more backwards areas, a good 50 years behind the times in every single way you can think of, the Eastern Shore, it's a paradox and an anachronism, at least as far as social mingling is concerned, so I am very sensitive to jewish people, i am very very close to them, admire them, when i was all alone in Hartford, pregnant with the first child, i was practically adopted by a survivor from Auschwitz, Gerta Oppenheimer ...... was loved and cared for by that wonderful woman and will never forget how she suffered, that faint horrid blue tattoo on her arm. Back home in NJ the bulk of my friends were either Cuban, Jewish, Black or Gay..... here in VA can't even make inroads with culturally diverse friends because it is still so deeply ingrained, the distrust and pain on both sides ( the gay people are very underground here, the hatred of them is so vitriolic they truly dare not be public) and I did manage to find 3 white people without a prejudiced bone in their bodies... a herculean feat to be sure down here, where there is no celebration of diversity and much much segregation still. (absolutely no intermingling of cultures down here. the mexicans keep to themselves, the blacks keep to themselves and the whites keep away from everyone and imagine my horror being called a N****** lover not once but about 20 times since i'm down here??? ) ...it's been an eye opening experience for me down here NEVER heard anyone use that name in anything but a derogatory manner, so how would I know it was a mexican name and thus how would I be defaming the entire mexican culture? I just don't like people watching me here for five hours with all my information blatantly on display, it really made me very nervous. I just didn't want him here, enough was enough. SORRY MR. whoever if I was so rude. I MUST learn how to zip and attach, because I DO NOT like my personal computer use BAM just there for everyone to see. I am an old woman in her sixties who has alot of fear and alot of safety issues...it's a hard cold cruel world when you are old and all alone. I never feel safe one hour of one day. It's more an old age issue than anything....have been robbed, vandalized and bilked a hundred times over the past year..... yes, it's just a sensitivity to safety. NOW...about the computer.... I have EIGHT different boxes I have to choose to delete and don't know which ones I should go for. first box says Preserve favorites website data - keep cookies and temporary internet files that enable your favorite websites to retain preferences and display faster. IF i DO NOT check that, does that mean my favorites will be wiped out from my list? and since MSN is on the favorites list does that mean that no matter what else i check down the list here, that the cookies will be saved anyway? do I take msn and msn games off the favorite list then before I check this box??? second box say Temporary Internet files.... all copies of webpages, images and media will be deleted if I check that box third box says COOKIES.... obviously i AM checking this box fourth box says HISTORY.... list of websites i have visited... i never use that feature ever so who cares if I delete that, no big deal fifth box say DOWNLOAD HISTORY...gives you a list of files you have downloaded? i don't use that either sixth box say form data.... saved info i have typed into forms...don't care if that gets deleted either seventh box says passwords, now that is touchy.... hard enough for me to remember them all eigth box is a total mystery ACTIVE X FILTERING AND TRACKING PROTECTION DATA.... a list of websites excluded from filtering and data used by Tracking Protection to detect where websites might be automatically sharing details about your visit. again, MSN i know uses Active X controls..... especially on the game site....I don't get what active x controls are at all.......do I want to check this box???? if i check this box what gets deleted? I can't figure it out..... i don't know who or what is being filtered, who or what is under that Tracking Protection? Where do you go in your computer to see who is sharing stuff about my website visits? If there is a feature built into these machines called Tracking Protection, that keeps tabs on who might be sharing my information, can i access that? I don't know which boxes to check EDIT: ALSO....can't log into facebook anymore

Edited by compudodo, 21 April 2011 - 10:55 AM.

[Tomk]

I'm very certain you are not prejudice and abhor it in others. I know that you like to help others whenever you can. The user in question is a trainee at another facility and was reading your thread because it is long and he was trying to track what was going on. He has posted an apology for you here:

Back to your computer:

first box says Preserve favorites website data - Basically this just overrides the deletions for the information related to your favorites. Typically you would check this so because you want to keep stuff related to your favorites... but in this case information for your favorites isn't working so we are trying to get to first base. Leave it unchecked.

second box say Temporary Internet files - these files just make a page load a bit faster if you've been to it before. However, they will be restored when you visit the page again. Personally I purge mine everytime I log off. Check it.

third box says COOKIES. - yep. We are trying to reset them all. Check it.

fourth box says HISTORY - yep. You don't need it. Check it.

fifth box say DOWNLOAD HISTORY.- you don't need it. Check it.

sixth box say form data - Don't need it. Check it.

seventh box says passwords - You aren't getting a warning that your passwords are wrong... so don't check.

eigth box is a total mystery ACTIVE X FILTERING AND TRACKING PROTECTION DATA - In theory, this is where information is stored for sites that you have told your system you know are good so don't worry about protecting you from. You would only do this for sites you trust and because you are getting tired of having a little warning come up on your screen every time you go there. I doubt that you have told it not to worry about sites so it probably doesn't make any difference if you check it or not.

[compudodo]

thanks tom for posting that message.... now i don't feel so violated.... maybe trainees could get a GREEN name hilight by whatthetech???? You volunteers get your names hilighted in blue.... perhaps all trainees should have to register on this website and then whatthetech can assign them a colored status indicating their official capacity either as a trainee, intern or helper??? just a thought. i have truly had to learn the hard way this past year I can trust no one. I used to be a total pollyanna, but now I am very suspicious of EVERYONE due to the constant flow of endless people who seem to feel it is their god given right to rip me off. this site has always been so sancrosanct....it is a haven away from the rampant cruelty out there. really. I have come to trust you guys so very much, you always are patient, kind and helpful and I never felt unsafe.... but then I'm reading these dds logs and it seems it is way too much information to be posting publically, because even a dolt like me can understand them..... i doubt i ever made heads or tails of the hijack this logs. ok.... i'm going to check all the boxes now...i'll let you know. yes, have been very diligent noticing how the computer is working this past day, it seems just fine. It runs much faster than my desktop, for sure, like four times faster, that may be just because it is newer or has more power, i don't know....but it seems pretty speedy and working just fine.

[compudodo]

nope, didn't work, am still getting message cookies must be allowed. - your browster is currently set to block cookies. your browser must allow cookies before you can use windows live id i tried every combination of just unchecking all boxes and allowing cookies everywhere..... but it still won't work. so for now, I am back to accepting first party cookies.... I am asking to be prompted for third party cookies and the box is checked yes for override automatic cookie handling....but like I said, it doesn't matter if that box is unchecked or not and I'm allowing all cookies.... i still can't use hotmail, games or facebook edit: did it again anyway, allowing all cookies, unchecked that box that says i want to override automatic cookie handling.... still won't work.... my home page is msn.... but if i try to access anything beyond the homepage, it won't go there. edit: p.s. that's why i was thinking i have to completely just start over and uninstall internet explorer to completely wipe out whatever settings are stuck in my computer now....but i don't know how to go about it...if I uninstall, how do I get back to install it again?? with no way to get back on the web??? edit again: is it a good thing to check the box on the general page that says DELETE BROWSING HISTORY ON EXIT? right now i don't have that checked edit again: to tell the truth i don't like this new version of explorer at all, don't like the way downloads are handled, don't like the layout. can i just go back to an older version of explorer???

Edited by compudodo, 21 April 2011 - 02:50 PM.

[compudodo]

ttom, i even checked the box that says always allow session cookies...still won't give me access to msn hotmail, games or facebook...... i know i got sick of the prompts and clicking constantly on the prompt boxes popping up....so i clicked on the wrong cookie on those three sites when I also clicked on APPLY MY DECISION TO ALL COOKIES FROM THIS WEBSITE. THAT'S THE BUGGER HERE..... I clicked that box.....AND YOU CAN'T UNDO IT.

[Tomk]

Give this a try.

In Internet Explorer, click Tools> Internet Options> Privacy and then press the button that says Sites
When the next window opens... in the box that says "address of website" - put msn.com and then click on allow.

Then type in Hotmail.com and press allow.

Click OK to close the page.

Click apply and then click OK to close the next page.

Close your browser (internet explorer) and then restart it and see if you can get where you need to go.

[compudodo]

nope, getting the same response, cookies must be allowed


BUT ..... it DID work for Facebook....go figure!!!!!!

[compudodo]

AH HAH



EUREKA



I figured it out..... in ie options, privacy, sites there was also a big box with all the cookies i had blocked!!!!!!!! so i just hit remove all...... and

VOILA - i now can sign into hotmail!!!!!!!!


heh heh heh heh heh...... i love the days when the post menopausal brain kicks in and I have these momentary flashes of my past intelligent brain when my IQ was 139 and I was a pretty smart cookie. these days come maybe three times a year now that i am deep into my sixties

[Tomk]

Awesome. So... any other lingering issues?

[compudodo]

yup..... how come on both my computers, that little white bar that you can move all the way to the left or the right if the screen is too big and so you need to scroll sideways to see the whole message, how come that has disappeared from here right now??? and also on my desktop computer, it is very annoying....i do not have the bigger computer monitors, these are relatively small screens I am using....and with my age and poorer eyesight, i have to go with a larger type font....usually there is a white bar that compensates for the bigger texts, i can just move the white bar further to the right to keep reading a text....but now both computers seem to be missing this feature and I can't find out where to add it back onto my computer EDIT: also...on my desktop for ....well, forEVER ....i have always had this message pop up from Rundll...... error loading C:\Program Files\Common Files\Paretologic\UUS2\UUS.dll - the specified module could not be found been there forever.... maybe just four months after I bought the stupid computer...it is not a name brand....i got it at some Korean store in Palisades Park NJ...the box says foxconn, TLM 436, made in china I'm thinking since it wasn't all that expensive, I think I paid $399 for it three years ago..... that it is just a defect, a bad cell????

Edited by compudodo, 21 April 2011 - 04:05 PM.

[Tomk]

Let's try getting your scroll bars back first.

I'm assuming that they disappeared when we were messing with cookies. Let's try resetting internet explorer

In Internet Explorer, click Tools> Internet Options> advanced tab and then press the button that says Reset

This will put Internet explorer right back to how it was when you first installed it.

[compudodo]

aw drat....that wiped out everything.....Lol.....i'll go back and reset the stuff we did earlier. ok... at least on my laptop, the bar is back!!!! yanno? why now does facebook want to plant a cookie everytime I hit reply here??? it doesn't pop up when i enter the website, only when I hit reply.... now that'd odd, does that mean they can track what I am saying??????????????????? dad gum it.... i hate big brother watching me!!!!!!! jeesh, i'm wiped out.... let's do rundll tomorrow on the desktop.... i'll be playing around here resetting all the stuff to the way it was before anyway. thanks tom..... you've been such a peach and so patient with me. edit: oops....tomorrow is good friday..... if this is a holy day for you don't worry....this is a very seriously holy weekend for many so don't worry if you are going to be involved with church and family....we can do anything extra come next Monday..... seriously.... spend the time with your family....the rundll error just randomly pops up and has for the past 2 years, so it's not serious. you have a marvellous holiday and i hope the easter bunnie is good to you.... i just like this time of year because it feeds my pagan soul.... it's nice that ancient fertility goddesses still hold some sway in today's modern world

Edited by compudodo, 21 April 2011 - 05:55 PM.