I'll hold you to that salute if it turns out my hunch is right.
Something new I just found out about cookies today...An adware one wouldn't delete, (primaryads.com) so I went into "Settings" on the AOL page again, Index, Internet, etc., you know the routine, raised a "medium" privacy setting to "high".
Then when viewing cookies in Ultra Win Cleaner's Privacy section, the usual "remove checked" changed to something about unchecking or unprotecting a selection so I was able to delete it due to the higher pc Privacy setting.
Our blockers can lock us out of I.E.'s "Tools, Internet Options" to check cookies. I didn't know if Spybot was the one so didn't try disabling it. Glad I went back into UWC.
Is there a way to put an icon on the desktop when there's no "send to" ? It's always listed in the start menu but I sometimes forget about it.
With the higher privacy setting I couldn't get into one of my forums, so I changed my setting back to medium. They couldn't read the cookie info. Just found there's a new version of SpywareBlaster3.3, now 3.4, and installed that, so maybe primaryads is also on their list. Must be strong because I had NOT protected it, so watch out for that one! At first, deleting all my unprotected cookies twice seemed to make things worse, but now things are faster.
TEEDIE, I think you said you're using Adaware, but I'll have to do some re-reading to find which version. Anyone else using that? Spybot is good, but they all have slightly different lists to block. Also I made sure my Norton Live Updates are up-to-date.
What about Mozilla Firewall? Windows has one, and didn't want to allow a Downloads.com Adaware yesterday. I don't have Mozilla installed. Does it interrupt your work all the time to ask if it should block a certain address when you have no idea who's at that address? I hated that in Internet Security and stopped using Firewalls.
One more little thing, I don't know if a bookmark link can get worn out, after using it two or three years, but when I made a new one for a forum that was terribly slow and deleted the old one as soon as I'd checked how the new one would work, it made all the difference.
I have some forums powered by vBulletin and get their notifications, so I agree xMission may be our problem, maybe their Time synchronization at DST changes, or something like that. Aren't we learning a lot of interesting new stuff? I'm going to stop being so scared, except I'll never go into my Registry or reformat a hard drive.