Can't log-in to Hotmail - all other sites work fine

[zulu9812]

A friend of mine is having trouble logging into Hotmail. Browser is IE6. Get to login screen, enter username and password. Get taken to blank page. Bugger. She can login to MSN messenger on her laptop, and MSN messenger can check to see if she has new emails. We're both at the same university, connecting through a proxy to the uni's cache. I can connect to hotmail fine in IE6, and from what I can see her IE has the same network settings as mine. Can anyone help?

 

[Chairman Meow]

On her computer, try opening C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (or C:\winnt... if that's where her Windows directory is) in Notepad, and see if hotmail.com or something similar appears anywhere in there. It could be that Hotmail somehow got added to the hosts file, causing problems when she wants to access hotmail.com. It's a long shot, though, but it's the only thing that comes to mind right now.

 

[CrackedCrystal]

Try clearing the browser cache. It fixes my problems sometimes when web pages don't load completely