The same exact one I've been using for the past three years on my phone, and for the past two years on my computer. This is one of those, "It's not me, it's you" scenarios. :)

Well, like I said before, I have no problems with the "automatic login." On all four computers that I regularly use.

With all due respect, "It's always worked before" "It just worked yesterday" "I've used this this way for years" (etc., etc.) are some of the most common problems I deal with. Why do things happen like this? Because whether we like it or not, in the world of computer/network/internet technology, things are changing ALL THE TIME. And, there is a LOT more going on between your computer and a website than most people can even imagine. Any change at any time along the way can change something for the "end user."

When I get calls of the above mentioned nature, the FIRST thing I do is check for problems on the "end user" end, and then if necessary trace back from there. Many times a windows "update" (or some other software update -- flash, shockwave, etc.) has actually caused an issue. In our case, where we have a specific firewall with specific instructions/policies, IF we have changed something (like we've discovered that a kid has figured out how to bypass certain safeguards), it sometimes messes with other things. And sometimes after all we can do on our end, a website has upgraded or updated something on "their end" that has made something on "our end" not work properly.

In those cases, it is their fault. But in many of those cases, the only solution is on "our end." That's where IE's "compatibility settings" come in, in most instances.

So, like I said before, I don't have the same issues you have. My "automatic login" works fine. So with VDF's upgrade, for whatever reason, my 4 computers were NOT affected. That means, no matter who's at fault, the only solution may be at your end.

Bill

Okay, so I made sure the 3 browsers on my Mac (IE, Firefox, and Chrome) were up to date, and the 2 browsers on my android phone (Dolphin and the stock LG G2 browser) are as well. I still have to enter my username and password every time I check back to VDF on all 5 browsers. That's so great that your 4 computers are able to automatically log you back in, Bill. Good for you. Downplaying the problem doesn't solve it ("What's the deal with you? MY cancer surgery was successful--why wasn't yours?" = not helpful). For the rest of us, though, *something* that occurred during the switching back to V Bulletin has made that option unavailable to us. Like I said before, it's not THAT big of a deal, a minor inconvenience if anything, but it was nice to not have to enter the username and password every time before the switch happened.

If there's some setting that automatically defaulted with the upgrade was made or something, it would be nice to have it change back. That's all.

In that case, I'm sure David and Tommie are monitoring this thread and are surely looking into it... have you messaged either one of them direct?

Anyway, just trying to help and I hope you can get this resolved.

Bill

Thanks for the help. No, I haven't messaged them directly--it's not that big of a deal to me to do so. I figure if it's a glitch or setting change on their end, they'll take care of it soon enough.

same with me I still have to type my user name and password in every time I log on forum, nothing has changed on my end, before all the mods made to the forum, I was always logged on, now for some reason, I'm not the only one with this issue either it seems

Would it be churlish of me to point out that these two posts of yours are inconsistent from the perspective of you guaranteeing nothing has changed on your end? If you update versions of ANYTHING (not specifically browsers) then things change. And if you have ANY software on your computer which is allowed to update itself when it feels like it (often said to be "recommended") then guess what? Things change. And if you updated browsers? Well that counts as a change. If you have a log book of updates (recommended) you could tell when you last updated any of your software and see how it relates to the vBulletin change. But not if you have anything automatically updating. Then you are reduced to giving us the specific versions you are on.

Note that my request (and Bill's) was for the specific version, not "which browser and operating system". All I got for my trouble initially was a "can I repeat that in English?" from slingerland. And you've done the same thing of not giving specific versions.

Based on what has gone before, my current suggestion is you should learn to type faster. That way you can get back in quicker. And you have control over things.

On the other hand, if you do want to start going through the specifics of one operating system and one browser and one anti-virus program and one firewall system (that's enough of a list to start with) we can look at the settings at your end which might need tweaking to get you your automatic login back again.

If some of us don't have any problems that suggests that vBulletin 3.8 isn't impossible to use and get automatic login to work. It's just that some people aren't getting it to work yet.

Just so people know for debugging purposes, I've just logged in using IE11

version 11.0.9600.16476

update versions 11.0.2

and it remembers me just fine. I can also swap between IE11 and Firefox on this same machine and both remember me. Windoze 8.1 being used.

I'd have a pretty much "out of the box" version of IE11 since I don't ever use it (except now for this test). I do note that I haven't ticked Install New Versions Automatically in the About Internet Explorer box under the Help Menu (if you have menus showing -- if you don't I can't tell you how to get them showing). I haven't gone into any compatibility modes that I know of. I try and avoid all Microsoft software since I retired (as a director and chief technical officer of an international software company) and can get away with such behavior, so I really haven't kept up with Microsoft stuff for some years. But I do have some deep wisdom and technical experience which I'm happy to share if people want to play the debugging game.

Um, thanks for the "help"(???). If you will go back and look over what I posted, they are not inconsistent. In my first post, nothing had changed. Between the time I posted that and the next post where I said I had updated my software to the latest version, I had...you guessed it...updated my software to the latest version. I am now rocking the latest versions of all of the browsers which had worked fine before, cookies are enabled, and we're ready to go with the automatic load in once the V Bulletin issue gets remedied.

Also, my typing speed is a non-issue here, but thanks for the snark.

Zenstat.......I apologize that my computer skills are not up to speed . everyone has different talents, no one was trying to offend only stating facts. so I guess I will hqave to type faster then if that is what it takes. I wish I was as smart as you.