How Do I Enable Cookies? Trying to enter SYW.

triceretops · Apr 22, 2010

I can't get into SYW, even with the Vista code. It says I have to have cookies enabled? How do I do that? I know that's a stupid question..but...

Tri

dpaterso · Apr 22, 2010

Hmm, could be your browser settings.

If using Firefox, select Tools > Options > Privacy tab -- make sure "Accept cookies from sites" is ticked.

If using IE, select Tools > Internet Options > Privacy tab -- make sure the slider is around Medium security level.

Also check out the "I can't get into Share Your Work, it won't accept the 'vista' password!" thread in FAQs forum.

-Derek

triceretops · Apr 22, 2010

Yeah, I went and deledted cookies, I hope. There was a box that said, "delete cookies on exit", and I did not check that one. Mabe I should have. Then I logged out of AW, did a restart, logged back into AW, and then went to SYW...Didn't work with vista.

I have the evil explorer, btw.

Tri

alleycat · Apr 22, 2010

Did you change your security setting?

triceretops · Apr 23, 2010

Yes, My nephew installed a Norton Anti-Virus Program just recently. What should I check there?

Tri

alleycat · Apr 23, 2010

Your anti-virus really shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless by some freak accident it thinks AW SYW is a malware site.

Just to be sure we're on the same page, you went to IE and checked that your security setting is medium?

Have you run a good cleanup of everything anytime lately?

What version of IE do you have? I use Firefox, but I also have IE. I can go to it and check my own settings.

triceretops · Apr 23, 2010

Yes, that lever is set on medium. I haven't done a compress and defrag for about six days. I can do that if it'll help.

I might have an older version of EI, so I can update, I believe.

Thanks for helping me, Alley, this really screws with me. I'm supposed to have my query letter to my agent and I can't even run it past QH to clean it up.

Tri

alleycat · Apr 23, 2010

This is a good cleaner program. I use it all the time. It not only cleans out cookies but a bunch of other junk. You might want to download and run it. It's a fairly simple download and setup (a cleaner program isn't really all that advanced).

http://www.atribune.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=25

You shouldn't have to do a defrag. It's something in the browser probably, but it is strange the problem began when Norton was loaded.

triceretops · Apr 23, 2010

Thank you for the program. What's weird is that I was just allowed in! I didn't do anything but change one cookie setting somewhere. So, we'll see how this goes. Thanks, alley, you were just great.

Tri

tjwriter · Apr 23, 2010

Norton blocked some weird stuff back in about 2008 when I loaded it as the newest version to my old XP desktop.

I had to go digging through it and making it allow certain things that it blocked so I could use the java chat for AW.

It was a royal PITA.

alleycat · Apr 23, 2010

triceretops said:
Thank you for the program. What's weird is that I was just allowed in! I didn't do anything but change one cookie setting somewhere. So, we'll see how this goes. Thanks, alley, you were just great.

Tri

I was going to step you through the Internet Options settings on IE, but if you've got it working I won't for now. I was going to get you to put AW in the "always allowed to place cookies" group.

I switched over to IE. It's kind of weird after being on Firefox for so long.

And now . . . I'm going back to FF.

triceretops · Apr 23, 2010

Yeah, I keep hearing that IE is trash and firefox is superb. I don't even know how to change browsers without panicking, because I'm not aware of what all has to be switched over, like favorites, emails, contacts, passwords/user names and all that crazy stuff. I'm the worst person to make major changes in my computer, and that comes from outright paranoia--disrupting the status quo and losing everything.

Tri

alleycat · Apr 23, 2010

It's actually a fairly easy switch. It will give you the option of saving your favorites and some other things (I don't think it will switch over passwords). You don't give up the option of using IE if you also have FF (I have both loaded). At one point the system will probably ask which you want to make your default browser.

There are a few really nice things about FF, so you might consider switching sometimes. There is also a world of add-ons for FF; a few of them are really handy.

Maryn · Apr 23, 2010

I, too, am a big Firefox fan, but I still have IE and once in a while have both open and running. (I go to one site which FF doesn't support properly.)

When and if you're ready to add it, we'll hold your hand. Just start a new thread. Although you may not need it; I'm a computer idiot, pretty much, and I managed.

Maryn, steering you toward Firefox

triceretops · Apr 23, 2010

Ah, great. It's nice to be hand-held through this type of thing. I started using computers (of this era) very late in life and it's so complicated to me. I'll favorite that firefox download, Maryn. Mucho thanks for the info.
I will survive.

Tri

Matera the Mad · Apr 23, 2010

You can take it in small doses, use FF a little more each day. Go back to IE any time you start feeling lost. Sometimes it's fun/useful to run two browsers at a time anyway. And since they have separate cookies, it's a good way to test stale cookie problems.

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