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trumpwm

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    Setting keeps changing on me.
    « on: February 01, 2011, 02:48:48 PM »
    I have a dell latitude d620 laptop computer running windows XP Professional with service pack 3. My problem is when I log on the internet and my Yahoo homepage opens up . I scroll down to the news section and click on more news . when that page opens up  in the more news section it has my local news, I live in Indiana and it shows sunnyvale,California. when I set it to my zip code and check the default box it will go to my zip code, if i shut down my computer and start it up later it is back on Sunnyvale ,Ca. If anyone can help i would appreciate it.
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    Allan

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    Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
    « Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 02:55:16 PM »
    Delete all cookies. Reboot. Try again. What happens?
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    trumpwm

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      Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
      « Reply #2 on: February 01, 2011, 02:57:28 PM »
      I deleted all my cookies and rebooted but it still does the same thing.
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      Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
      « Reply #3 on: February 01, 2011, 03:13:21 PM »
      I think Allen is on the right track.  Does you av program, or any other program, block cookies?  Cookies aren't always a bad thing.

      Yahoo is based in Sunnyvale, that's why it keeps coming up as the default location.
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      Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
      « Reply #4 on: February 01, 2011, 03:16:51 PM »
      Open the web page...set it to your location...refresh the page....then set it as your homepage in the browser...
      Power down and re-boot...what happens ? ?
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        Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
        « Reply #5 on: February 01, 2011, 06:15:14 PM »
        I tried that and i still had the same problem. then I went to Control panel and clicked on internet options from there I clicked delete in browsing history and unchecked cookies and history, then I rebooted and set my setting that I was trying to set and it worked. Thanks to all that were helping me.
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        Allan

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        Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
        « Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 05:32:11 AM »
        So when you said you deleted your cookies the first time, how did you delete them?
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        trumpwm

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          Re: Setting keeps changing on me.
          « Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 05:09:42 PM »
          I went to  start,settings,control panel ,internet options,browsing history,delete
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