Great to see you at TIWWA! You have been missed! Good luck with the new PC and I'm sure there's plenty of Millennium Candidates here would be willing to pop around and set up your desk!

As for loggin in and out problems, there are some tips in my signature and some help pages on it but there is no way you should be logged out from TIWWA unless you click the Log Out link. Something is clearing your cookies between TIWWA visits, or preventing your browser storing the cookie, preventing a stored cookie from being read. When you return, your browser cannot see the cookie for one of those reasons so its assuming you need to log in again. My first advice is to check your Browsers security settings and make sure they are set to no higher than Medium, which should ensure cookies can be stored and read without interference.

What we have found is that some peoples computers seem to have a problem with the website address being https://www.tiwwa.info (which is the correct address for the site and the one you should bookmark) but the actual board and its files are located in a subfolder at https://millenniumdesktop.co.uk/tiwwa/

When you click on links to move around the board you are navigating https://millenniumdesktop.co.uk/tiwwa/ but if you visted via the tiwwa.info domain name, your browser may get confused. The cookies are named millenniumdesktop.co.uk not tiwwa.info and on rare occasions this may cause problems but its the best configuration for us. To be honest, it shouldn't matter what the cookies are prefixed with, your browser should read and store them without problem.

Southern Celt is right when he mentioned problems after upgrades but it has been limited to two occasions:

1. When we switch from one make of board to this one (Ikonboard to Invision Power Board) and had to convert the user logins from one type to the new type. Some peoples browsers were trying to access the board with a cookie that used a different format and encryption so we needed people to remove their cookies and temporary files so that their browser would fetch, store and access the new type.

2. When we upgraded from Invision Boad v1 to v2, similar story as above.

Anyway, check your browsers security levels in its options page (visit the Help Pages for more information).

If you are still having problems, send me a PM and I'll try reseting your password key and salt which has fixed problems in the past. And if you are using AOL to access the forum, use Internet Explorer on your desktop or Start Button or better yet, download the faster, more secure and feature laden Firefox Browser from https:www.getfirefox.com (recommended even if you aren't having problems as it will cut down on the adware and spyware getting on your new PC!). AOL has major issues in cookie handling.

For comparison, I visit TIWWA with no problems via https://www.TIWWA.info which I have bookmarked. I access it using the Firefox browser (IE or Firefox at work). Whenever I go to tiwwa.info and click on the forums, I'm automatically logged in (because the Board was able to access the cookies and know I have a valid username and password).

I hope we can fix any problems you are having, its always great to have you online with us!

No problem at all, apologies for the awful spelling in my post above too.

You won't regret switching to Firefox it more than deserves its hype. It has a guide for Internet Explorer users who have switched to it detailing the most important differences.