Hi and thank you for looking at this thread.

I have a really different problem, for which I can not find a result (so far). Maybe someone can help me?

I have an Ebay account. Used for quite some years. My friend also has an account and he has used my computer at different times to sell stuff.

My problem is that this computer, (desktop, Win XP Pro SP3, Dell, had recent problem with MSI, now fixed and works well. (Thank you everybody for your help)), see's my requests at Ebay, to open items in a new window or tab (F/Fox), as my friends ID.

Even though of course I am logged on to the Ebay site, the new items often ( NOT ALWAYS) come up with his Ebay username in the new window. All the operations such as saving item to a list, comes up with my list designs, (I have several) such as "New stuff to look at", "Best stuff to buy", "Good value stuff", and so on, for example.

So Im thinking that, this is actually my computer, that has the problem with identification, rather than Ebay.

So somewhere in my desktop's memory, my computer is getting confused with the two different usernames somehow??

Can I search it out and delete the other ID at all??
Holy smoke where would I even look for something like that?

I hope I have explained this particular problem correctly.

I must admit it sounds rather confusing just trying to read it back to myself. ( nothing new with that ).

Thanks for your consideration and possible solutions.
ImnoGuru.
You both used the same browser, right? I suggest installing CCleaner and run it's Cleaner (click the button labeled Cleaner, on left column). If you're using Internet Explorer, select the Windows tab in the Cleaner panel and check all boxes in the Internet Explorer section, and then run the Cleaner. If using a different browser, click the Applications tab and check all boxes in the section for your browser and then run Cleaner.

Note: The standard free CCleaner download is bundled a Yahoo! toolbar, as I RECALL. But, you will see an option to un-select the toolbar shortly after starting the CCleaner installation. So, do that unless you really want the toolbar. To be more specific, it sounds like you are having cookie problems. Especially with certain things on the site showing as yours and others showing as his. As suggested, a good cookie cleaner should take care of that. You can likely find your cookies, either by looking in some of the temp folders in your internet browser's program directory or under your user profile temp folders, or you can likely find cookie settings somewhere within the browser settings. In Internet Explorer, it is located with the browser history settings, but not sure on other browsers.

Setting your computer to delete all cookies on exit will cause some annoyance (websites don't "remember you" and automatically log you in) but it is the most secure method of making sure issues like you are experiencing now don't happen. You could also avoid it by having your buddy log in to the computer with a guest account or another created user account. Then his cookies will be his and yours will be yours. Hi Raven19528 and soybean. Thanks for the reply, sorry I haven't been able to get back to you till now.

Yes we both used the same computer to log in one day and although it doesn't come up often, it does come up at the most annoying of times. (like when I want to sell something and SOMETIMES when I am bidding.. most annoying in the last 10 seconds..... Hahaha)

Soybean,, I use FF mainly, don't really have a use for IE. (Main reason is password issues for me. IE wont go to the site before you have to select to remember the password, where FF does and you can tell if your password is correct before saving it.) I suppose that is just PERSONAL preference stuff.

Anyway.... CCleaner then. Ok. I will download it and see what CCleaner does and how I can use it to cure my problem. It sounds like a cookie cleaner, I think I had it a while ago but deleted it. ( I don't think I used it) Thanks I'll try it this time.

Raven19528 hi, that sounds very logical that it is a cookie issue, only with certain aspects of the Ebay site.
Tracking down, the where, on the site will be the hardest. I thought it might have been them at their end. Seems like you both say that it most probably my cookies getting confused.

I dont really want to set my browser to delete all cookies on exit. He is not very likely to use my computer any time soon that I know of. So I will try to locate and isolate just those ones for the time being.

Wish me luck and thanks for the info. ImnoGuru.Just been researching CCleaner and it really does a lot of things.
I don't necessarily want all of that done though.

I just want this EBay problem to go away... I have never run this program and don't know what it will do if I just click GO.

Can I just select the Ebay cookies and delete the ones I want to, or does CCleaner just wipe the lot?

Thanks.Re: CCleaner, I suggest you click the Appliications tab in the Cleaner component of CCleaner and check all boxes under Firefox, click the Analyze button, and take a look at what CCleaner identified for cleaning. If this seems too aggressive, you might take a step by step approach. To do that, you could try checking, say, just the first three items for Firefox in CCleaner and running it. Then, try going to eBay with Firefox. If you still have the problem, then run CCleaner again and select more of the options for Firefox, and so forth. If you go through cleaning all items under Firefox and that still has not resolved the problem, we'll have to explore other tactics. Ah yes. Thanks soybean for that. Just what I wanted, a slow methodical and progressive solution to this, that I can control and test as I go.

I did some research from other sites about ccleanear, and a lot of their comments were only broad as to what ccleaner does and were very misleading.

An excerpt from this site.

mickliq December 27, 2010 at 08:04:10 Pacific

"CCleaner deletes garbage & garbage only. When it was 1st released it was called "Crap Cleaner" but I guess that name offended some people so it was changed to CCleaner. When you 1st open it, there's a list of the types of files it deletes in the left column. You'll find that there's nothing there that's critical, it's all "crap". It's safe to delete everything it finds."
So not really a glowing rendition of the product.

I'll trust that the way we are going to do this is the best way. OK.Just don't run the registry cleaning aspect of CCleaner.CCleaner is pretty much The standard Windows disk cleanup with a few bells tacked on, as well as a much better User Interface.

Because I like to spam my website, I actually "studied" the standard Windows Disk Cleanup tool here, to try to dispel a lot of myths surrounding disk cleanup's special "/sageset" and other parameters.

Using CCleaner and pressing "analyze" will tell you exactly what it will be removing before it removes it. Obviously, everything that will be removed is fully configurable. Honestly I don't know what the problem is.Thanks for the hand holding while I went with these suggestions.

I ran the ccleaner and so far I haven't had any poor returns from my Ebay requests.

It seems to have worked. (to date anyway). It did as suggested, remove some of my history of websites that I visit regularly, but so far none that aren't missed or that I'm unable to find again.

Thanks too Quantos, I didn't run the reg cleaner.. (hmmm yet) Do I really need to? Not really.. I just wanted this FRUSTRATION with Ebay to go away,

and BC_Programmer,Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 29, 2011, 05:21:00 AM

Honestly I don't know what the problem is.

and BC_Programmer,
Having never run the program before, I was uncertain as to what the results might have been.
I.M.H.O. it is better to ask first, than jump right in and perhaps cause more problems than I had.

P.S. Nice website you have. It has a lot of interesting features and well laid out. Thanks.