Re: IE 6.0 + Windows XP Pro + Hotmail

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From: Tim Harbison (coldwarrior_at_nospam.ameritech.net)
Date: 02/16/05 

Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 04:16:01 GMT

dgee wrote:
> Ever since, Hotmail first came out and I had IE _ Ialways used them in
> tandem. When Passport came out, I signed up right away. Recently Hotmail
> upgraded to a new version and all my computers in the house (3) of them are
> okay with IE and Hotmailand passport. One computer however I can get to the
> hotmail start page, it will acces for my user ID and passord and then
> re-direct and never opens my email account at hotmai. However I do the same
> process on my other 2 computers and it works and accesses my email account.
> Fine. I just spent the last 2 hours witlh Dell Tech's and they tried
> everthing they could think of but to no avail. I was wondering if anyone on
> this forum has run into that issue or know the best way to resolve it or is
> there a better forum to address this question at
>
> ANy help would be greatly appreciated - Daniel @ dgeehot@hotmail.com
>
> ps: I can hit it okay with Netscape okay from the same computer that will
> not allow me to hit it with Internet Explorer.

Interesting... my experience lately has been almost the exact opposite.
  In fact, I was beginning to wonder if MS had coded something new into
the hotmail page that prevented it from displaying on a browser other
than IE.

I imagine the problem, whatever it is, is either on Microsoft's end, or
related to the browser cache. Have you tried clearing yours?

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