XP Home + IE6 + AOLanywhere.com COOKIES off

[cathyb]

Well, I think I've narrowed this down!
I'm running XP Home on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with Internet
Explorer 6 SP1. When I try to access an AOL account thru
aolanywhere.com (I enter the user name and password and
click 'go'), I get a pop-up message: "Please turn on your
cookies".

AOL support and my ISP had me do the same thing:
Check-mark:
IE/Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Advanced/Override
automatic cookie handling/First-Party Cookies Accept and
Third-party cookies Accept
and Always allow session cookies.
And,IE/Tools/Internet Options/ Restore Defaults
And,IE/Tools/Internet Options/Security/reset all content
zones to Default Level.

No luck.

So I tried it on a Sony Vaio running XP Home, IE6, same
message!! "Please turn on your cookies"

So I tried it on a Dell running Win ME -- NO PROBLEM!!
Tried it on a Dell running Win 2000 --- NO PROBLEM!!

So this must be an XP problem.

Surely someone else has run into this??? HELP!!

(another entry on my LONG list of reasons to hate AOL!!!)

 

[Lj..]

I don't know what the deal is - if you already have
internet access and just trying to sign in to AOL, try
using just plain ol' aol.com instead. I know access is
available from there. It could have something to do with
XP. Netscape 7.1 can't access the aol address you gave
either. AOL does things in strange ways. They might be
changing things just like MSN is changing and whoever you
talked to doesn't have a clue.

 

[Sharon F]

Well, I think I've narrowed this down!
I'm running XP Home on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with Internet
Explorer 6 SP1. When I try to access an AOL account thru
aolanywhere.com (I enter the user name and password and
click 'go'), I get a pop-up message: "Please turn on your
cookies".

AOL support and my ISP had me do the same thing:
Check-mark:
IE/Tools/Internet Options/Privacy/Advanced/Override
automatic cookie handling/First-Party Cookies Accept and
Third-party cookies Accept
and Always allow session cookies.
And,IE/Tools/Internet Options/ Restore Defaults
And,IE/Tools/Internet Options/Security/reset all content
zones to Default Level.

No luck.

So I tried it on a Sony Vaio running XP Home, IE6, same
message!! "Please turn on your cookies"

So I tried it on a Dell running Win ME -- NO PROBLEM!!
Tried it on a Dell running Win 2000 --- NO PROBLEM!!

So this must be an XP problem.

Surely someone else has run into this??? HELP!!

(another entry on my LONG list of reasons to hate AOL!!!)

Look in Documents and Settings\<your account>\Cookies. Delete any AOL
cookies found there. Then after double checking once more that cookies are
enabled, try the site.