Re: IE6 - IE 7 & Hotmail/Windows Live Messenger

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Hello again!

Okay. I downloaded the IE Tab Extension for Firefox. I can still login to
hotmail/livemail with Firefox - Still cannot get windows updates with Firefox
- tells me my comp is a mac.

In IE7 I CAN log in to the account manager using the link you gave me
live.login or something like that. But from there when I finally found where
I can check my mail, it does the same thing, redirects to a blank page with
only the banner advertisement for that day from MSN.. the rest is blank.

I've checked this out a little more.... when I login to hotmail using
Firefox, this is what goes down:

Open Firefox, type in www.hotmail.com in URL bar - which takes me to the
Windows live login page with this url:

http://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=10&ct=1187788142&rver=4.5.2130.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fmail.live.com%2Fdefault.aspx&id=64855

So I login. After I select sign in, it quickly flashes an https url and
then comes to rest at this URL:
http://by102w.bay102.mail.live.com/mail/TodayLight.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&n=456574276&gs=true

Which shows me the main page for my email. And everything is fine.

When I do this in IE7, here is how it goes down:

I type www.hotmail.com in the URL locator and it takes me here to the login
screen:

http://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=10&ct=1187788405&rver=4.5.2130.0&wp=MBI&wreply=http:%2F%2Fmail.live.com%2Fdefault.aspx&id=64855

When I click signin I get this showing up in the url:

https://login.live.com/ppsecure/sha1auth.srf?lc=1033

This is the point where it refreshes (takes like ten seconds) and it shows
this url:


http://by102w.bay102.mail.live.com/mail/InboxLight.aspx?n=714272890

But the only thing on the page today is a University of Phoenix Online
banner at the top.. the rest is blank white.

I have no idea if we are allowed to post source code in here so I won't.
But basically when I look at the source code in Mozilla on the main homtail
account page.. there's a lot. lol

When I look at the source for the IE7 redirect thing all I get is the
javascript that tells it to display the ad.

Also... in IE7 I still cannot go to windows update... it thinks my computer
is a mac.

Now... I have done everything you suggested. I painstakingly have gone over
my secure settings and etc in IE7. I have read and read and done what all
the Microsoft Support documents in the Knowledgebase have told me to check
and change in IE both for security settings and for the windows update.

I have made sure my messenger is updated and I don't know anyone else with
this problem.

Is my only next choice to reinstall the o/s and start over yet again?
Because reinstalling IE7 doesn't work.

I am more than willing to post screen shots of settings and exactly what I
am seeing, I have my own server so I would not have to do attachments or
something, I can post then on a webpage or whatever else anyone may need to
figure this out instead of a complete and total reinstall again...it's a pain
in the butt.

Currently I'm not so concerned with IE7 not being able to go to email, it's
annoying that I cannot use the mail button in Messenger or click on the popup
notifications (I use messenger for business so it's not like I barely use
it...it's almost a 24 hour thing)

The thing that really bothers me is not being able to get windows updates
and it interferes with me getting around on the knowledgebase which I use
frequently in my work.

I am also concerned, though it has not happened yet, that me using Firefox
is going to interfere more with the other Microsoft services and programs I
use such as the partner program. Though that is quite new and like I said,
there only seems to be an issue with hotmail/live mail at the moment.

Thanks.
.

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