Name: ZeRO (by psychopigeon85) Date: March 30, 2005 at 17:28:01 Pacific Subject: Cant sign into hotmail OS: win 98 se CPU/Ram: celeron 400/128 mb ram
Comment:
heres the deal...for the past few days i havent been able to sign into my hotmail account. msn messenger works fine, but when i go to check my email the website keeps saying "please retype your password." i tried it on my buddy's computer and it works fine. i ran spybot and ad aware but to no avail. someone plz help!
I cannot login to my hotmail account either on a particular computer. The only change I can think of is that I installed MSN Messenger 7.0 beta. The other computer where login is not a problem still have MSN Messenger 6 running.
I have deleted all cookies and temp files in Internet Explorer and even uninstall MSN Messenger 7 but still no success.
Anybody has any other ideas?
The login failure message I get is:
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I think these hotmail problems are caused by the latest IE/MSN Messenger updates. I was able to get into my hotmail using firefox,(in Linux & Windows), even when Internet Explorer and MSN Messenger could NOT access the hotmail site. I "fixed" the problem by hitting the reset button in the "Internet Options/Security" Tabs for the various levels of Internet Security. Also cleared the "Block all cookies from originating website" list in the privacy report pop-up box. Don't know which of those actions did the trick, but it does work now.
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