Hi- I am using a Dell Dimension 8300 with XP- about a year old. I am somewhat of a novice so do not have lots of tech expeience. I have IE, the latest version I think, but get on the internet using my ISP's button on the desktop, so I believe I use their (sbc Yahoo DSL) browser.

I was surfing ebay and was haivng a lot of troule (more than usual) with slow page loading. I went to the discussion board to see if anyone had a fix. There were lots of referrals to use a fix by an ebay user, rockboss2000, so I used it.? It entailed changing security settings and adding a bunch of sites to the restricted sites in my internet options and several other changes to Internet options settings. After I did this, page loading was faster. But... now I can not login to anything at all? . Not My eBay, PayPal, my bank, etc... Not event he eBay discussion board to ask for help.

I went in and erased the files I added to teh restricted sites nad changed all of my settings back to defalt in my internet options secutiy and privacy as well as in advanced. Still no luck :|. Anyone have ideas on how I may be able to fix it without taking it into a tech service?

Thank you :-)!

Patti

What is your security level set at in IE? I have mine set to medium.

It is set at medium( defalt)

Can you post the instructions from rockboss2000 that you followed , so that whe can see what youve changed?

Also you can go into tools, internet options...click on the security tab, then click defualt level, also as joe5 said post what changes the program made.

Here is what I did...Thank you!

The instructions below will still speed up page loads on category and search results pages... It will suppress many eBay errors that interfer with your daily activities here... It will have no adverse affects on any other site... The only possible interference you may experience will be if you try to sort a large search return by "Distance: nearest first"... Only the closest fifty50 items will display sorted (200 if you use advanced search).
Portions of the tweak will carry cross-site and not be restricted to the search results/browse category pages... Specifically the buffer overflow in some routers caused by omniture.com cookies will cease and the omniture.com related "SiteCatalyst Debugging" should disappear from your eBay pages.

FIRST, clear the browser's cache:
A. Click on "Tools" in the IE toolbar...
B. Scroll the drop-down menu to "Internet Options" and click...
C. The Internet Options dialog box pops up with the "General" tab on top...
D. Click "Delete Files"...
E. In the next pop-up put a check mark in the box for "Delete all off-line content" and click "OK"...
F. Once the cache purge is finished click "OK"

SECOND, stop the JavaScript downloads on the search results pages:
1. Click on the "Tools" button again in your toolbar.
2. Click on "Internet options" again in the dropdown.
3. Click on the "Security" tab in the pop-up window.
4. Click on the "Restricted sites" icon (red w/white dash).
5. Click on the "Sites..." button.
6. Add the following URLs one at a time... Clicking the "Add" button after each:


http://*.admarketplace.net
http://*.andale.com
http://ads.web.aol.com
http://ar.atwola.com
http://*.auctiva.com
http://*.doubleclick.com
http://ad.doubleclick.net
http://ebay.doubleclick.net
http://*.doubleclick.net
http://banners.ebay.com
http://bibo.ebay.com
http://include.ebay.com
http://include.ebaystatic.com
http://pics.ebaystatic.com
http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com
http://promo.ebay.com
http://*.ebaypromo.com
http://listings.ebay.com
http://*.listings.ebay.com --> (SEE BELOW)
http://*.search-desc.ebay.com --> (SEE BELOW)
http://*.search.ebay.com --> (SEE BELOW)
http://search.ebay.com
http://search-desc.ebay.com
http://search.ebaymotors.com
http://search.stores.ebay.com
http://keyword.ebay.com
http://attr-search.ebay.com
http://www.ebay.com
http://srv.main.ebayrtm.com
http://*.esomniture.com
http://*.omniture.com
http://adfarm.mediaplex.com
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com
http://*.mediaplex.com
https://secureinclude.ebaystatic.com
https://securepics.ebaystatic.com
Don't use the asterisk (*) wildcard in these three3 URLs if you visit the Mature Audiences section of eBay. To visit eBay's Mature section, your browser must be able to accept a cookie from that category. You can still restrict other category browse and search results pages that you frequent by using the full URL... Examples:


http://books.listings.ebay.com
http://music.listings.ebay.com
http://pottery-glass.search-desc.ebay.com
http://jewelry.search-desc.ebay.com
http://collectibles.search.ebay.com
http://clothing.search.ebay.com
7. Click "OK" when finished...
8. You should be back to the "Security" tab... Double-check that you have remained in the "Restricted Sites" zone then CLICK "Custom Level"
9. Now adjust your browser settings in the "Restricted sites" zone to these levels:
Download signed ActiveX controls (Disable)
Download unsigned ActiveX controls (Disable)
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe (Disable)
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins (Disable)
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting (Disable)
***There may be a cookies setting here if you are still using IE5.x***
File download (Disable)
Font download (Disable)
Java permissions (High safety)
Access data sources across domains (Disable)
Don't prompt for client certificate selection when... (Disable)
Drag and drop or copy and paste files (Enable)
Installation of desktop items (Disable)
Launching programs and files in an IFRAME (Disable)
Navigate sub-frames across different domains (Disable)
Software channel permissions (High safety)
Submit nonencrypted form data (Enable)
Userdata persistence (Disable)
Active scripting (Disable)
Allow paste operations via script (Disable)
Scripting of Java applets (Prompt)
Logon (Prompt for user name and password)
10. Click "OK"...
11. Click "OK" on the "Security" tab.
AND THIRD, turning off script debugging:
Z1. Click on the "Tools" button again in your toolbar.
Z2. Click on "Internet options" again in the dropdown.
Z3. Click on the "Advanced" tab in the pop-up window.
Z4. Under "Browsing" put a check-mark next to "Disable script debugging"...
Z5. Un-check "Display a notification about every script error"...
Z6. Click "Apply"...
Z7. Click "OK"...

NOW, eXit (close) all browser windows... Start a new browser session... Try surfing eBay again.