icloud won't work with Windows PC - My Solution

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icloud won't work with Windows PC - My Solution

I like everyone else has had problems with using icloud on a windows pc. I use windows 7 and ie 9 and was experiencing

slow responsiveness from icloud and eventually the dreaded message "can't load app for mail", notes, etc. After experimenting

I determined that if i opened a inprivate browser window in ie and made sure that under tools that the security setting disabled

the window toolbars and extensions when in inprivate browsing mode that the icloud site was responsive and that mail, notes, etc were

readily accessible. I've repeated this enough to know it works.

Hope that helps a few users.

iphone 4s-OTHER, iOS 5

Posted on Nov 17, 2012 3:24 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 17, 2012 3:51 PM in response to Mikey-FL

did you download all of apples http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html

ive also had success just accessing i cloud through win7 ie9 ie10 could it be your av as well '

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Answer 2

Dec 10, 2012 4:53 PM in response to Mikey-FL

This works for my mail and contacts but I have just noticed that my bookmarks in Internet Explorer are not updating. Do you have this problem also? Thanks for the inprivate solution which helped!

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Answer 3

Dec 10, 2012 5:14 PM in response to SandCHouston

Sand,

I use a dual boot win/mac configuration and I find myself doing most of my syncs on the mac partition

but I did stumble on these posts - seems to have some good information in it.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/31695/how-to-make-icloud-on-windows-syn c-bookmarks-with-safari-not-internet-explorer this link is meant as a visual aide

the other two information

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4001

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3402370?start=0&tstart=0

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Answer 4

Dec 10, 2012 6:01 PM in response to Mikey-FL

Thanks! The sync was working fine before I had to use the inprivate window to access my mail and contacts. I am wondering if it is security issue that is restricting the sync in IE? Who knows!

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Answer 5

Dec 10, 2012 7:20 PM in response to SandCHouston

no prob - your idea sounds logical (to save your sanity) its amazing how windows products work well in win land and mac works well in mac but whenever one of them crosses into the other one there always seems to be issures that arent there on vinalla (or basic builds used to test things our at times) 😉

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