A very high percentage of Americans make use of a webmail service, routinely save data online, and operate with web-based programs. Internet Explorer is a handy and useful tool, unless it’s not correctly browsing or allowing you to reach your email. In this case, it becomes a hair-pulling affair. This article will make it possible for work to start again, with answers to one of Internet Explorers frustrating problems.
The “You Need to Enable Cookies to Use This Site” error message or an error message that reads the same in meaning sometimes shows up after you have been to a website that requires a cookie be added to the web browser for the web page you want to load properly. Alternate messages that might appear instead of the above error message are “Your Browser Does Not Seem to Be Allowing Us to Set Cookies” and “You Must Enable Cookies for This Site to Load Properly.”
Web sites put cookies on your browser the first time you visit them so that you will not have to log on each time you go back to that particular website. Usually, Internet Explorer will refuse to let a website leave a cookie in your hard drive because its security settings are set on high. This is often the default setting. This is because cookies are a possible highway for outside forces to gather and record data on the manner in which you use the browser and the sites you visit. It is possible, however, to leave Internet Explorer’s settings the way they are while still allowing web pages to save cookies on your system.
To do this, open Internet Explorer and select Tools on the top menu. When the list opens scroll down to Internet Options and click to select it. In the window that appears, select Privacy tab > Advanced Button, and then click the Override Automatic Cookie Handling check box. Click the circles next to Prompt for both First-Party and Third-Party Cookies. 
If you want an alternate way to handle this situation, open Internet Explorer > Tools > Internet Options > Privacy tab. Slide the Settings slider, using the mouse, along the bar until it reaches Medium. This should be sufficient to allow Internet Explorer to save cookies providing the saved file reports. It is not possible for outside influences to operate your computer without your knowing it.