Re: cookies question

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Lee_N wrote:
I seem to have trouble with cookies, I have websites I try to purchase items from, and they state I must have cookies enabled, which as far as I can tell, they are. This is in Vista Premium home 64 bit. I set the machine to overide automatic cookie handling, I even added them (FRYS.COM) to the always allow, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I restart, go into Tools, and the settings are correct, but the site still says "it is neccesary to have cookies in your web browser enabled."

Is there some secret setting, or is Vista "protecting me for my own good." I can purchase stuff at Amazon and Newegg for instance, without any problem. What's up???


That's not a Vista problem. That's a Web browser problem. The Web site is interrogating the Web browser to see if it has the ability to use cookies or that the use of the cookie feature of a browser is enabled.

Maybe, the settings for cookies for the Web browser are too low, and the site is determining that the browser doesn't have cookies enabled.

Or maybe, you got some 3rd party security suite like Norton or something else that's interfering with the use of cookies between the Web browser and the Web site.
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