How to remove Linked Inboxes.

Do you frequent other sites requiring login? If so, do they behave in the same way, regarding "staying logged in"?

 

I don't use IE11 but still have it on my Windows 7 system. I fooled around a bit to se what happens with different settings:

1) In Tools > Internet Options > General tab > Browsing History: is the box for "delete browsing history on exit" ticked?

2) Click "delete" to get the dropdown menu with options: is the box for "passwords" ticked?

If 1 + 2 is ticked, after exit I get logged out from WindowsBBS and any other site requiring login. I have to relog in on the next visit.

3) If I untick the box for "delete browsing history on exit", the history will stay between sessions until I manually choose to delete the history.

4) If I don't untick the box for "delete browsing history on exit" but I untick the box for "passwords", all history (according to the other choices in that dropdown menu) will be deleted but passwords will stay between sessions.

This is how IE11 works on my Windows 7 system. IE11 should behave the same on Windows 10, I guess.

 

Well, it wasn't that simple. IE11 behaves strangely which lead to a mistake in #4 in post #42.

If I have #1 ticked and under #2, "cookies and website data" ticked in addition to "passwords", after shutting down (not only WindowsBBS but IE11), the first revisit is still logged in but the second revisit is logged off. Now, why does it remember until the second shutdown when told not to?

I wrote "the first revisit is still logged in but the second revisit is logged off" and that is true if I visit a single site only. If I visit two sites requiring login, after shutting down IE11 and I reopening IE11, the first site I revisit is logged in but the second is logged off. It is possible that it would behave in a third way if I shut down and restart the computer but I haven't tested that scenario. The above is strange enough!

Not noticing this strange behaviour led to a mistake, this is how it actually works for me on IE11 on Windows 7:

If I have #1 ticked and under #2 let the tick for "cookies and website data" stay but remove the tick for "passwords"; then I will get logged off after two (caveat above) shutdowns of IE11. When I relog in, IE11 remembers my name and password (you have to choose that it does remember when logging in the first time), relieving me of the typing.

For it to work "staying logged in", I have three options;

either untick the box for #1 to make IE11 not delete history on exit

or under #2, untick the boxes for "cookies and website data" and "passwords"

or untick all three boxes.

My conclusion is that your problem is due to some "cookie management issue"!

 

Now, I've fired up my LapTop running Windows 10 Home. I use Firefox on all my computers but have opened Internet Explorer 11 (I won't touch Edge). Everything is there, including all options.

Have you accidentally activated "full screen" (F11) mode?

If so, maybe it is set to auto-hide the menu bar. You have to get the mouse pointer to the top of the screen and a different menu bar will appear. At the top right of the page, to the left of the "red cross", there is a "double windows" button to get back to normal view. That should bring back the normal menu bar with the missing choices. If not, right-click the title bar above the URL address bar and and tick the checkbox next to "menu bar".

In "full screen" (F11) mode, at the top of the page, there's also a "cogwheel" button which opens a menu with the possibility to choose Internet Options.

If IE11 wasn't in "full screen" mode but the menu bar is not there, right-click the title bar above the URL address bar and and tick the checkbox next to "menu bar".

 

I have never marked this option but it seems like, in the dropdown menu with options, checking the box at the top to "preserve favorites website data" prevents the sites (or rather IE11) from loosing the logins, regardless of settings for "cookies and website data" and "passwords". I assume that it works for sites that are saved in your Favorites but it requires that you can get to the settings to change them.

 

Well, something is wrong and it's difficult to work without access to the actual computer. I've ran out of ideas but I went google on how to open internet options in Internet Explorer 11. Click the link and see if you can find a solution.

 

One more, maybe the final idea:

Right-click the start button > search > type in: internet options > in the results: click the shortcut

 

I'll sit on my hands for a while but need to know the answer to a previous question. Maybe I've missed it but is the problem confined to WindowsBBS or is it for any site that requires login?

 

Does that imply that you visit other sites requiring login and "stay logged in" works or that you visit no other sites requiring login?

 

Good news, Bobby!

Is it now also possible for you to get to the Internet Options in IE11?

 

Try to avoid any program that isn't necessary for the funtion of the computer or "productive" in any way. As you have noticed, many, maybe even most of those "cleaning/managing" programs have downsides.

The only cookie management I do is to block third party cookies, those "offered" to your system by advertisers and such. In most browsers, this is a built in option.

In Internet Explorer 11: Delete and manage cookies

If you after having made the change should notice that sites you visit on a regular basis doesn't work like they used to do, then undo the change.