Google Preferences Won't Stick

[John Hanley]

My Google preferences won't stick. I change them to what I want, then Save
Preferences and they will be active as long as I am in the same session.
But after closing my browser and reopening it for Google the preferences
return to the default. This problem arose approximately one month ago; prior
to that the preferences would stick.

I have tried to solve it by deleting all my cookies and allowing them to
reset in case they were corrupted, but that did not help. I am using IE7
under Vista and have it set to accept all cookies.

Thanks for help.

 

[Ralph]

OK- you're causing your own problem.
The Google preferences are stored in a cookie.
You might also want to check your browser, and see that it does not remove
cookies when it exits.

 

[John Hanley]

Yes, I understand that the preferences are stored in a cookie. My browser
is not set to remove cookies upon exit. I can see the cookies; actually
there seem to be about 15
different cookies with 'google' somewhere in the file name; one of those
cookies looks like it contains my preferences, but the preferences are not
used the next time I invoke google.

 

[SG]

Hi John,

Move those cookies to another folder for backup and then delete the
originals. Empty your IE cache through Control Panel. Start IE and reset
your preferences in Google and see if this clears things up.