Hotmail and cookies

[Dehlia]

I've been trying to register with MSN Hotmail but keep getting: *Your
Web browser options are currently set to disable cookies. To use .NET
Passport, you must enable cookies.*

But my cookies are fully enabled! (I have IE6 on XP) - and I have
deleted cookies and TIFs hoping it would help, but it doesn't. What
else can I do to get an account then?

 

[Guest]

set cookies at medium high and no higher to acess hotmails.
in ie tools,options,privacy,...and apply

 

[PA Bear]

IE Tools>Options>Privacy>Edit> type in

hotmail.com
passport.net
msn.com
msn.net

and Allow All Cookies.

Suggest disabling any firewall until cookies are working correctly. Make
certain your time, date, and time *zone* settings are all correct.

Managing Cookies
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=283185
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers.htm#cookies

Web Site Reports That You Must Enable Cookies
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=299331

Error Message: Not Accepting Cookies
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=175662

Error Message: Your Web Browser Options Are Currently Set to Disable
Cookies...
(covers re-setting time via command line prompt)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=814141

Troubleshooting Secure Sites
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;813444
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers2.htm#secure_sites
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

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[Dehlia]

Tks to both.
I seem to have done all that has been suggested. But

http://makeashorterlink.com/?U3A6544F8

still gives me *Your Web browser options are currently set to disable
cookies. To use .NET Passport, you must enable cookies.*
Grrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!

The same thing happens in other browsers. I'm close to giving up on
Hotmail.

 

[PA Bear]

Both the .NET Passport and MSN mail servers have been giving problems to
many users in recent weeks, Dehlia, so the problem may well be on that end.
Can you successfully negotiate the sign-on on another machine?
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[Dehlia]

Both the .NET Passport and MSN mail servers have been giving problems to
many users in recent weeks, Dehlia, so the problem may well be on that end.
Can you successfully negotiate the sign-on on another machine?

I will try as soon as I am able to lay my hands on another machine.
I was going for a Hotmail account so that I can set up a MSN messaging
account. Would you by chance know whether, for this purpose, I could
just set up .Net Passport and use any other mail account?

Thank you for having helped me through this.