Luna

Thanks Qsilv and every one. The issue is only with THIS site. I am conected...I stay connected, and can move around the site, including seeing new things. I'm just not logged in any more. If I log in again, it says welcome luna, then when I click a page (who are you?) I'm not logged in any more. I actually know a fair amount about computers, and my son knows hundreds of times more, and this has us baffled. I have tried to make it work in several different places including a coffee shop, so it's not the ISP.

five

Luna, my suggestion is to email Rachel and ask her to reset your password for this site, and clear your cookies again before logging on with the new password. Very odd, though, that you can stay logged on from other computers other than your own. It makes me think it really is a malware problem. Can your son check your computer for malware?

StarvingSA0228Artist

Hi five, it's actually me, luna. I logged in with my husbands login just to see if it would work, and it does. I down loaded IE8 and in the installation process it checked for malware and didn't find anything. It seems to be JUST my log in !!! I will write to Rachel. I could create a new login but it wouldn't be attached to my pictures.

ThinkDraw

Hi Luna,

Sorry for the problem you have had with your login.

Is it possible that you are logging in to http://thinkdraw.com rather than http://www.thinkdraw.com ?

This would cause the problem you have seen (although obviously it shouldn't so we will try and fix it).

If not let us know and we will see what we can do.

Luna

I have an icon on the desk top, so I always log in the same way, but whatever you did worked. It's working now! THANKS!!!

anotherronism

Luna:

I've recreated your exact issue on my computer with a single setting change.

Not to guarantee that this is your issue but it would certainly explain it.

You mentioned XP so I assume you're using IE.

You've "probably" managed to chage your "Cookie" handling.

TD seems to use Cookies on every mouse click or major page-change.

I'm actually using IE 6 on this particular computer but I think this setting is version independent.

Go to Tools | Internet Options | Privacy (Tab). You will see a slider there which I currently have set to "Low". If I slide it above "Medium" I get the same exact problem you describe. I can surf, I can draw and I can login. But my login will not "stick" when I click any new pages (including "Submit".)

Try sliding this setting to "Low" and see if it works.

You can then figure out how or why it got changed and decide if it needs to be so high as to limit sites which rely so heavily on Cookies.

Note: This is a very possible thing as well:

You could have anti-virus or internet-security software running on your computer which is basically blocking cookies all by itself.

If you find IE IS allowing cookies you should try temporarily disabling all your security software until you find the culprit then do a little research on how to allow cookies on a per-site basis (I'll refer you to whatever package you might have for the details on this but if you disable it outright and TD works then you re-enable the security and TD doesn't then viola! You at least know the culprit.)

I still think it's just IE itself though.

Good luck.

Ron

anotherronism

Oh and Luna. I had to logout of TD and shut down IE before I noticed the change in this setting.

So make the change. Logout of TD. Shut down IE (all instances) and restart IE then retry TD.

anotherronism

Ahhh... Luna posted in while I was typing.

Qsilv

Hey Ron, Luna, Five et al -- anyone want to take a crack at this?

Every single time my Vaio wakes up from hibernation it refuses to connect to the internet until I reboot the WiFi router. Rebooting the computer does NOT help.

(yesssss.... it's a brand new 'puter running... v.i.s.t.a. ........sigh...)

(yesss... I've pestered my captive geeks and scoured the 'net... inconclusive, which is why it's now pester-TD-folks time!)

; D

Luna

Can you upgrade to the new Windows 7. My son says it has none of the problems that Vista has. He loves it.

Luna

Question mark after Windows 7.

Luna

Thanks for the effort Ron!

marg

Good to hear your problem's solved, Luna - and there were a few ideas from Ron that I might remember too.

Qsilv.. why do you let your laptop hibernate ? .. Vista's OK - haven't tried Windows 7 yet - but I believe that if you're running wireless and let it hibernate, it will contnue to drain the battery when you think you've shut it down !

anotherronism

QSilv...

Understand something first.

I have never had antivirus software or anti ad-ware or anti-anything software on any computer I own. And I have never been troubled by anything untoward.

When I was NOT stealing my internet connection from my neighbors (i.e. When I was actually paying for this myself - my SSID was: "Come On In")

I'm no security expert (tho I could break into your network in a heartbeat - never think otherwise. Seriously. I mean it. Seriously.)

I think your problem is a security issue. I think you have your security so high, either on your workstation or your router that your system refuses to do a basic hand-shake when re-awakened.

Get rid os your too-high security. I don't even know the terms. You're maybe at WSP or WSPK or whatever the hell the three-letter-achronymn of the week is.... And your router and your sleep-cycle on your computer are out-of synch.

Just understand this. If a hacker wants in - he's gonna get in. No matter what you do.

Given that - lighten up.

Your security is in you anonymity. No one really wants to hack your little network. Really - they don't.

So scale back all that security. And you won't have to swim across your own moat. (Mote? moat? Oh my gawd! I actually don't know how to spell this word!)

Qsilv

(grinning here) well..... all good points, folks, and I thank you.

Luna-
Why don't I move up to 7? I will, eventually, but right now this is the soup du jour, and one of my many vices is curiosity. Another is arguably just a skosh of ..er.. powermongering, which can't be done properly without knowledge. So either way, I like to know all the systems rather well. And the horrible truth is, I'm actually liking some of the features in this Vista.

marg-
Why do I let it hibernate? nodnod.. turning off that feature is the simplest answer. I'm very seldom actually on battery anyway; I just like this laptop 'cause it feels good in my hands.

ron-
yeah, the consensus of opinion on the net is that it's an incompatibility with the router, and thus... replace the router.

And oooooh dude, you are soooo on my wavelength on that security approach. My home feed is not passworded, and within my companies I am (in)famous for pointing out to my geeks that at the end of the day if Bank of America, Barclays and Microsoft itself can't keep from getting hacked, our only hope is in flying under the radar --which with many of mine I am, but with some I'm not. So my policy is to create a basic, reasonable barrier against the daily barrage of sniffers, but to put most of our security energy into backing up wisely. So when we ARE hit, we can just sigh, scrub, reload, and go. No panic, no whining, no long meetings about it.

It's like knowing you've got a wall that attracts graffiti... you can rage against the world, or you can keep a supply of Krylon in the right color like you'd keep a supply of toilet paper, and just get out there for two minutes every morning. Admire the morning birdsong and smell the roses whilst you're about it.

; D

marg

..I may have misunderstood something here.. you spray-paint your toilet paper to match your mood ??

Qsilv

..er... why, YES, marg!
(quickly adding "food-grade vegetable dye" to my shopping list...)

marg

Wow !.. now I really am totally impressed ..

.. and.. er.. I find somewhat colourfully, too ..

solosater

I feel this way about security as well, I do have a basic firewall and anti-virus program on my computer but there is nothing in there anyone would want.

I don't have a bank account (our family all uses the same one and it's not accessed online by us), I couldn't get a credit card if I held a gun to some poor sap's head (that’s what happens when you suddenly can't work but there are still bills), and trust me, no one wants to be me, I don’t even want to be me.

But the media and the software companies sure do like the terror tactics so my parents are all about the computer protection, the paper shredding, and all that jazz. My mother won't throw out anything with her name on it, if she writes it down in the calendar or on a scratch sheet to remind herself of an appointment, it must be shredded.

solosater

Also, my TP is white.

Always!

It's an OCD thing.