Ramblings of a Madman

Hey Folks, I was on my system at home earlier checking out some of the new skins and as I went to download, the site logged me off and I couldn't log back in. Couldn't log in to Forums, Stardock or Wincustomize. I finally used Wincustomize central to download the skins but the logons still didn't work there either as well as Impulse. I'm at a local coffee house now and everything seems fine. Did anyone else experience this as well??


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on Jul 03, 2009

i was logged out when i started up today - but no trouble logging into forums

 

in fact ... usually i have to log in to the galleries, but just now checked and i'm already logged in...

on Jul 05, 2009

I sent a ticket in to support, it seems to be only happening on one of my computers, unfortunately it's the one I use to create most of my Logons with. I cleared my cache and history but no change. All of my systems seem to login just fine but that one. It happens with all of my Wincustomize/Stardock sites including my Impulse, forums/etc..... Any suggestions would be helpful.

 

Thanks

on Jul 05, 2009

clear cache

clear cookies

on Jul 12, 2009

Ok so here's what I found out. In the problem with DesktopX and weather widget zip code error I started checking things so I went to sysmetirx and did a weather update. I noticed the date on the update was august 4th so I checked my systems date and time and found the date had somehow changed (no idea how that happened) I reset the date and on a hunch went to Wincustomize and tried to  log on and all was well, this was after I tried to login just before noticing the date problem and I couldn't get in. It seems the site has a date validation key in the logon script and just wasn't accepting my  logins. Interesting bit of info to know if anyone is interested.

on Jul 12, 2009

I had a similar issue some months ago, though it was not just logging into WC... all my subscriptions had run out as well.  I wasn't sure why at first, but when i finally checked the date it was 1 Jan 2066.  Yeah, that's what I thought.. WTF!!!!

I have a feeling that it had something to do with the monthly MS updates because no other changes were made to my system.  I resolved the issue by using system restore to reset the date prior to the updates.  Strange, to say the least... the updates were redownloaded/installed the following day but the date was still correct afterwards.

on Jul 12, 2009

It seems the site has a date validation key in the logon script and just wasn't accepting my logins.

I would expect that will be the case with any site that has memberships and subscriptions.  I'm no site coder but I can still see the necessity for such....