Do you have firewall functionality in a router? Does anything here help:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread30605.html
"Richard" <Richard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello dean-dean;
>
> Yes, the date and time are set correctly and both sites are set for
> cookies... confusing to me as that I cannot access Hotmail, Yahoo! or
> eBay,
> yet other websites that require a user name and password I can log in to
> with
> no problem...
>
> "dean-dean" wrote:
>
> Is your computer date and time set correctly? Are cookies allowed for the
> problematic sites?
>
>
> "Richard" <Richard@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Jesper / Others:
> I enter the password the same as any other computer; no 'caps' on. When I
> type in my User name and Password, it will tell me that the email address
> or password is incorrect. (Hotmail) For Yahoo!, it tells me to Please
> Verify
> Your Password.
>
> I can access my Yahoo! DSL homepage, Yahoo! mail and Hotmail with no
> problem
> using any of my other computers. I have even tried entering a different
> user
> but get the same error messages and cannot access those pages. Other
> sites,
> such as an automobile forum requiring a User name and Password, I can
> access
> with no log-in problems.
>
> Today, I used Internet Tools and deleted all the files from Temporary
> Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form Data and Passwords, but that didn't
> solve the problem either.
>
> "Jesper" wrote:
>
> How do you enter the password? What is happening when you try to enter a
> password? What error messages does it give you?
>
> "Richard" wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello;
>> >
>> > I have a Gateway desktop running OEM Windows Vista. New out of the box,
>> > I
>> > could log-in to my ISP email, Hotmail, etc. The computer no longer
>> > accepts
>> > any passwords and won't log into any websites such as email and home
>> > banking.
>> >
>> > Any ideas what settings have been changed so I can gain access to
>> > password
>> > required websites?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>>
>>