DELETING THE WORDPRESS COOKIE AND STARTING AGAIN

IF YOU ARE STILL HAVING PROBLEMS WITH YOUR USERNAME AND PASSWORD BEING ACCEPTED BY THE BLOG THE FOLLOWING ARE INSTRUCTIONS FOR GETTING TO THE COOKIE WHICH WORDPRESS PLACES ON YOUR PC TO IDENTIFY YOU.  IF YOU DELETE THIS COOKIE IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO START AGAIN AS A NEW USER AND YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SELF-REGISTER ON THE BLOG. 

CLICK START THEN CONTROL PANEL

ON THE CONTROL PANEL CLICK ON INTERNET OPTIONS

IN INTERNET OPTIONS CLICK ON SETTINGS

ON THE SETTINGS SCREEN CLICK ON VIEW FILES.

THE FILE SHOWN ARE COOKIES.

You may have thousands of cookies showing on this screen but the one you want will be towards the end of the list as they are in date order.

SCROLL DOWN THE COOKIE SCREEN UNTIL YOU REACH THE DATE ON WHICH YOU REGISTERED WITH THE BLOG.

THERE YOU WILL FIND A COOKIE cookieauthor@talbotfamilyblog.org.uk  It is a text document 1KB in size. 

Put your mouse cursor on the left part of the cookie title and right click to bring down a menu on which is the command “Delete”.  Click on “Delete” - you will be asked to confirm the delete. Click OK.

The cookie will be deleted.

Next log onto www.talbotfamilyblog.org.uk.  On the menu (which is now on the right of the page) click on Register.

This will then open up a box for you to input your username and password.

 This will register you into the system.

 I tried it and it works.

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