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Name: DerbyDad03
I know that cookies and temp files can cause strange problems, but I'm wondering if someone can explain this occurance.
My daughter uses Yahoo mail via IE6. The other day she told me that she could see and open all of the messages in her Inbox, but when she opened them, they were "empty". The header and address information was there, but there was no body text or attachments. In addition, none of the mail handling buttons (Reply, Forward, Print, etc.) did anything when clicked. However, if she logged into her sister's XP account on the same machine and then accessed her own Yahoo account, everything worked fine.
Since the problem was isolated to her own XP account, I deleted all of her cookies and temporary internet files and the problem went away.
I'm curious as to what type of cookie or temp file would cause Yahoo mail to act in such a strange manner - kind of "halfway working".
Thanks!

Cookies has nothing to do with it. Most likely it's the TIF space usage that maxed out. TIF should be cleaned out regularly.
BTW by deleting all cookies you will have to recreate every GOOD ones that identify who you are at trusted sites that you have registered.
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