It is a lot easier than it used to be. Now, if I can just remember another password.

Well, here ... use mine "******************" .... just don't tell anyone else what it is <g>

I keep getting logged out every time I try to move to another place. Like right now, I hit reply and the Board welcomes me as Guest.

Where is there a learning page? This reminds me of IRC, but the early versions of it without instructions.

TallnBald

...At the top of the page, there's a link labeled "Help". Perhaps that has what you need? If not, come on back and ask any follow-up questions you may have.
...One tip: you may want to add a little information about your environment - browser, level, options (like cookies) that you have on or off, on what exact page (a copy of the URL would help) are you having the problem?
...Good luck!

The first easy thing to jump on is "how does your system handle cookies?"

Noting that the first post you made in this new Topic worked just fine, but the second post shows "Guest" - "Unregistered" .... The cookie for this Forum keeps track of the last thing read, in addition to the "logged in/out" status. So guessing you registered, got the code, came back and logged in, mafe that first post, all was OK ... but then you went to another Forum, tried to read something, which would have tried to update your cookie, and it failed ... firewall, browser setting, some other control issue on your system?

OK!

It did it again! Logged me off as I tried to answer.

I have WinXP HE with IE6.0, ZoneAlarm Pro and connect via DSL Gateway Actiontec. I think all of these things have various firewalls and security switches, and they work with almost every other thing I try.

To start with the basics:

What should the cookie handling do in IE6?
What about the ZoneAlarm?

Thanks,
Allen

Thanks Wazoo, It worked :-)

The "should" part is the hard on to answer. For example, checking this system out, I find that under IE | Tools | Internet Options | Privacy ... I'll accept anything and everything from anybody .... but that's only because I'm using another tool to actually "handle" cookies. So, if you're running IE by itself, then the general guideline is to at least start with the slider tab on that screen to Medium and go from there.

(killing time while another systems comes up ...)

ok, latest version of the free ZoneAlarm, I show Firewall / Internet Security set to High, Program Control set to Medium, I don't see anything that would effect cookies in there.

Do you have any third-party things in the mix? pop-up blockers, cookie managers, etc., that may have their own settings?

Problem solved. Pass the word!

I tried all the obvious things and found no answer.

Then, I changed my password to a shorter sequence. That worked so far. I had a "huge" password that was remembered in a program called password agent.

It works for now. I noticed that when changing pages within the discussion, the password blank has a relative small field, and that tipped me to the idea to shorten my password.

I'll try some more use of the Board and see if it works OK and if so, pass it on to the SysAdmin.

Allen

I'm glad it's now working. How long was the original password?

Password was 19 charachters long with only alpha and numerical. No special charachters were included.

However, today, I see it is not working again. But my Adobe Reader is acting wierd too. Maybe I have worms!

Allen

Been quite a while since I dealt with the specific issues of passwords, but back in the day <g> .... 19 characters would have been overkill, most 'bigger' systems would have truncated it after 16 characters .. that old byte / word thing ... guess I'm going to have to go do some catching up on what software has kept pace with the jump to 32-bit, 64-bit, etc.

At any rate, I'm not sure that this would be the obvious solution for me. I think you got waylaid by the coincidence of you doing something and something else happened. Then again, maybe you're looking at that something else, based on your last post. Hope you track whatever it is down.