what kind of cookies?

I lost power for around 10 hours Thursday night, and when I cranked up this computer, every thing seemed ok. After coming back to this forum today, I found that It is a long wait, for a topic to come up, or a post, to post when trying to participate. I was told that I had lost a cookie???? What does cookies have to do with a computer, anyway? By the way ,I prefer oatmeal rasian.

Cookies are small files with information that is stored on your computer and used when you access websites.

I would bet this site puts a cookie on there once you login.

Yeah, I don't know what that other Dave is talking about. I like chocolate chip (tollhouse) or white chocolate macadamia when I am feeling like something more fancy.

Well I sure hope they give me a cookie soon! I won't even argue with Miss Kim, if its the wrong flavor. This waiting all the time, is frustrating.

go to your browser settings and delete all cookies, you should be fine.

Ralph you need to go to modern view and log out and then log back in. This will replace the (cookie/file) on your computer so you can work on YT easier.

JD I did that at your prompting, and it is still slow , guess I'll try finding the cookies to delete!

Ralph you may need to do a system restore to a point before the electric failure. Shut downs like that can change things in the system.

There you go, get me all primed for cookies and then it's computer talk. I was looking forward to some butterscotchies or snickerdoodles.

Your browser stores two different types of files when you visit sites. There are "cached" files, which are copies of the different files you download when you visit a site. These are the different images which appear on web pages as well as the web pages themselves. When you come back to a site you've visited before, the browser checks to see if the files it needs to download are in its cache, and if they've been modified since they were cached. If the cached copy is up to date, it doesn't have to download the file again. It's possible for the cache to get corrupted so your browser can't find its cached files. But that should clear up once you've done some browsing.

The other type of file is the cookie. These are small files which a site will leave on your computer and then later use to find out something about you. YT leaves a cookie with your handle so it knows who you are the next time you visit. Some sites use cookies for not-so benign purposes, such as to track your browsing. If you lose your YT cookie, you'll have to log in the next time you visit. But that shouldn't slow down your experience once you've logged in.

If the site seems slow, the problem may be with your internet connection. There are two possible problems: slow DNS lookup and just general bad network performance.

To check out your DNS lookup, just open a command-line window (aka "MSDOS window") and enter "nslookup yesterdaystractors.com". It should come back with an answer immediately. If it takes a few seconds, you should complain to your ISP.

To check the quality of your connection, use the tracert (aka "traceroute") command. In the command window, type "tracert yesterdaystractors.com". Traceroute will print out 20 or thirty lines, which tell you all the "hops" and how long it took to get to each hop. The last line before it prints out nothing but asterisks is the total time it took to get to the destination. In my case, the last line looks like this:

63.159.148.2 (63.159.148.2) 89.981 ms 92.076 ms 93.998 ms

So it takes about 90 milliseconds roundtrip to get to YT and back. If you have a high number (say 500 milliseconds), there's a problem with your connection, and you can probably see the particular hop that's the problem by looking at each of the report lines. Then you can complain to your ISP if they've got a bottleneck in their network.

I vote for chocolate chip cookies myself

Lost my cookies a few times. I was pretty slow for a while after too.