Cannot enter some website that require age or verfication input

I have a growing problem with my Vista Ultimate machine. Certain website
that require you to enter your age for entrance, or website that require you
to enter the characters to subscribe will not access the input. This is with
IE7 and I have all the latest updates. Someone suggest I tried using
Firefox, or Netscape and I downloaded both. And the problem persists.

Two website I am not able to access www.halo3.com/believe in which it will
accept my birthdate and says that I do not meet the minimum age requirements
but I can successfully enter the www.halo3.com site when prompted to enter
my birthdate. This same problem exist with Firefox and Netscape.

I have reinstalled my flash 9 plugin, shockwave plugin, and sun java. The
problem persists. I have a laptop running Windows XP and able to access the
sites successfully.

Now I cannot register on websites that require you to enter the characters
from the graphic display to verify your registration. And also the problem
persists with Firefox, and Netscape. Most recent website that I cannot get
past the enter verfication is forums.steampowered.com/forums/ where it will
not accept the characters in the graphic display for verification.

The first impression is that there is something with Vista that is causing
this problem. I tried everything including deleting IE7 cache, restoring
defaults, changing IE7 properties, uninstalling unnecessary programs,
enabling more Windows features, running sfc, spyware/virus scans. I can't
think of any else to check?

If anyone has any ideas or fixed this similiar problem, would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanx,

AN

"AN" <> wrote in message
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>I have a growing problem with my Vista Ultimate machine. Certain website
>that require you to enter your age for entrance, or website that require
>you to enter the characters to subscribe will not access the input. This is
>with IE7 and I have all the latest updates. Someone suggest I tried using
>Firefox, or Netscape and I downloaded both. And the problem persists.
>
> Two website I am not able to access www.halo3.com/believe in which it will
> accept my birthdate and says that I do not meet the minimum age
> requirements but I can successfully enter the www.halo3.com site when
> prompted to enter my birthdate. This same problem exist with Firefox and
> Netscape.
>
> I have reinstalled my flash 9 plugin, shockwave plugin, and sun java. The
> problem persists. I have a laptop running Windows XP and able to access
> the sites successfully.
>
> Now I cannot register on websites that require you to enter the characters
> from the graphic display to verify your registration. And also the
> problem persists with Firefox, and Netscape. Most recent website that I
> cannot get past the enter verfication is forums.steampowered.com/forums/
> where it will not accept the characters in the graphic display for
> verification.
>
> The first impression is that there is something with Vista that is causing
> this problem. I tried everything including deleting IE7 cache, restoring
> defaults, changing IE7 properties, uninstalling unnecessary programs,
> enabling more Windows features, running sfc, spyware/virus scans. I can't
> think of any else to check?
>
> If anyone has any ideas or fixed this similiar problem, would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanx,
>
> AN


One thought on the Halo site - I get a different format for entering the
date on one, than on the other.

It's MM-DD-YYYY for one and DD-MM-YYYY, although I did enter United Kingdom
for my location, which you probably didn't. But anyhow, check you're
entering the correct format for the date.

--
Jon

Works for me.
--
SX


"Jon" wrote:

>
> "AN" <> wrote in message
> news:%23dZ$...
> >I have a growing problem with my Vista Ultimate machine. Certain website
> >that require you to enter your age for entrance, or website that require
> >you to enter the characters to subscribe will not access the input. This is
> >with IE7 and I have all the latest updates. Someone suggest I tried using
> >Firefox, or Netscape and I downloaded both. And the problem persists.
> >
> > Two website I am not able to access www.halo3.com/believe in which it will
> > accept my birthdate and says that I do not meet the minimum age
> > requirements but I can successfully enter the www.halo3.com site when
> > prompted to enter my birthdate. This same problem exist with Firefox and
> > Netscape.
> >
> > I have reinstalled my flash 9 plugin, shockwave plugin, and sun java. The
> > problem persists. I have a laptop running Windows XP and able to access
> > the sites successfully.
> >
> > Now I cannot register on websites that require you to enter the characters
> > from the graphic display to verify your registration. And also the
> > problem persists with Firefox, and Netscape. Most recent website that I
> > cannot get past the enter verfication is forums.steampowered.com/forums/
> > where it will not accept the characters in the graphic display for
> > verification.
> >
> > The first impression is that there is something with Vista that is causing
> > this problem. I tried everything including deleting IE7 cache, restoring
> > defaults, changing IE7 properties, uninstalling unnecessary programs,
> > enabling more Windows features, running sfc, spyware/virus scans. I can't
> > think of any else to check?
> >
> > If anyone has any ideas or fixed this similiar problem, would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> > AN
>
>
> One thought on the Halo site - I get a different format for entering the
> date on one, than on the other.
>
> It's MM-DD-YYYY for one and DD-MM-YYYY, although I did enter United Kingdom
> for my location, which you probably didn't. But anyhow, check you're
> entering the correct format for the date.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>

That was it, for some reason it switched the date formats, as my XP system
is both mmddyyyy. I tore up my machine trying to figure this one out. Did
ddmmyyyy on my Vista machine and it worked.

Thanks for pointing this out.

Good Luck and thank you again.

AJ N.


"Jon" <> wrote in message
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> "AN" <> wrote in message
> news:%23dZ$...
>>I have a growing problem with my Vista Ultimate machine. Certain website
>>that require you to enter your age for entrance, or website that require
>>you to enter the characters to subscribe will not access the input. This
>>is with IE7 and I have all the latest updates. Someone suggest I tried
>>using Firefox, or Netscape and I downloaded both. And the problem
>>persists.
>>
>> Two website I am not able to access www.halo3.com/believe in which it
>> will accept my birthdate and says that I do not meet the minimum age
>> requirements but I can successfully enter the www.halo3.com site when
>> prompted to enter my birthdate. This same problem exist with Firefox and
>> Netscape.
>>
>> I have reinstalled my flash 9 plugin, shockwave plugin, and sun java.
>> The problem persists. I have a laptop running Windows XP and able to
>> access the sites successfully.
>>
>> Now I cannot register on websites that require you to enter the
>> characters from the graphic display to verify your registration. And
>> also the problem persists with Firefox, and Netscape. Most recent
>> website that I cannot get past the enter verfication is
>> forums.steampowered.com/forums/ where it will not accept the characters
>> in the graphic display for verification.
>>
>> The first impression is that there is something with Vista that is
>> causing this problem. I tried everything including deleting IE7 cache,
>> restoring defaults, changing IE7 properties, uninstalling unnecessary
>> programs, enabling more Windows features, running sfc, spyware/virus
>> scans. I can't think of any else to check?
>>
>> If anyone has any ideas or fixed this similiar problem, would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanx,
>>
>> AN
>
>
> One thought on the Halo site - I get a different format for entering the
> date on one, than on the other.
>
> It's MM-DD-YYYY for one and DD-MM-YYYY, although I did enter United
> Kingdom for my location, which you probably didn't. But anyhow, check
> you're entering the correct format for the date.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>