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All of a sudden on Friday, my hotmail account has ceased functioning. Whenever I go to my inbox, I get the dreaded "Page Not Found" message. Also to my extreme annoyance, I am not able to send my turnfiles in my Medieval Diplomacy or Napoleonic Empires games. I'm using an old Pentium II with not a lot of memory (128) but I've never had this problem before. The connection is DSL through my phone coompany (Verizon). Any of you computer nerds have any idea what the hell is going on?

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Change to gmail, problem solved.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
All of a sudden on Friday, my hotmail account has ceased functioning. Whenever I go to my inbox, I get the dreaded "Page Not Found" message. Also to my extreme annoyance, I am not able to send my turnfiles in my Medieval Diplomacy or Napoleonic Empires games. I'm using an old Pentium II with not a lot of memory (128) but I've never had this problem befor ...[text shortened]... phone coompany (Verizon). Any of you computer nerds have any idea what the hell is going on?
Clear cookies. If that doesn't work then go to;

C:\Documents and Settings\no1marauder\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

And delete all.

Good luck.

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Originally posted by Peachy
Clear cookies. If that doesn't work then go to;

D:\Documents and Settings\no1marauder\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

And delete all.

Good luck.
I already deleted the temporary internet files; I'll try clearing the cookies though when I do that I always have to re-enter passwords and such. Thanks.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
I already deleted the temporary internet files; I'll try clearing the cookies though when I do that I always have to re-enter passwords and such. Thanks.
Are you using IE or Firefox?

Firefox is the away. If you are using it, then install the latest version, 1.5.

If still trouble, then am out of ideas..

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Originally posted by no1marauder
All of a sudden on Friday, my hotmail account has ceased functioning. Whenever I go to my inbox, I get the dreaded "Page Not Found" message. Also to my extreme annoyance, I am not able to send my turnfiles in my Medieval Diplomacy or Napoleonic Empires games. I'm using an old Pentium II with not a lot of memory (128) but I've never had this problem befor ...[text shortened]... phone coompany (Verizon). Any of you computer nerds have any idea what the hell is going on?
Sounds like you may have upgraded your security settings. 😕

First of all do a test... Try going to the site that gives you "Page Not Found" and when you get that message hit the F5 key and see if it goes through. If it does then you're fine, if not then we need to look at some other possibilities.

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It could also be a temporary problem which doesn't have anything to do with your computer or anything you have done, and which will go away without your being involved.

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Originally posted by Peachy
Are you using IE or Firefox?

Firefox is the away. If you are using it, then install the latest version, 1.5.

If still trouble, then am out of ideas..
IE. I want to do as little actual changes as possible; my experience is that it tends to make things worse given my computer stupidity. Deleting the cookies and files didn't solve it.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
It could also be a temporary problem which doesn't have anything to do with your computer or anything you have done, and which will go away without your being involved.
This is possible if the site he was trying to connect to was temporairly down. I doubt that's the problem though.

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Try a system restore, take it back to a day when it was all right.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
It could also be a temporary problem which doesn't have anything to do with your computer or anything you have done, and which will go away without your being involved.
That would be nice; however, I'm on a Tuesday night time deadline for the wargames (I really don't use my e-mail for much else).

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Originally posted by no1marauder
IE. I want to do as little actual changes as possible; my experience is that it tends to make things worse given my computer stupidity. Deleting the cookies and files didn't solve it.
What happened with the F5 test?

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Originally posted by arrakis
Sounds like you may have upgraded your security settings. 😕

First of all do a test... Try going to the site that gives you "Page Not Found" and when you get that message hit the F5 key and see if it goes through. If it does then you're fine, if not then we need to look at some other possibilities.
Tried, no dice.

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Originally posted by no1marauder
IE. I want to do as little actual changes as possible; my experience is that it tends to make things worse given my computer stupidity. Deleting the cookies and files didn't solve it.
IE.. thats the problem.. Internet Exploited..

Firefox man, go Firefox.

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Here is an interesting tidbit about hotmail. Hope it doesn't apply
to you:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2028543,00.html