Cold Turkey issues

[The War Doctor]

I'm making this thread on behalf of Lana (TheState) because technical difficulties are preventing her from making it herself.

Basically, she used Cold Turkey to lock herself out of RYL for a week, and ever since the 7-day block was lifted, she's been having issues with RYL. In her own words:

It won't load. And on the rare occassions it does load it only goes as far as the starting site or the forum overview. I managed to read some of the threads, but even then it won't load other threads or boards... I also managed to log in once or twice but that didn't work out anyway i.e. the first time I couldn't even log myself out because it stopped working.

She's tried to fix it by restoring her system, and also by following the removal instructions on Cold Turkey's website, but neither of these things have worked. Also, at first we thought it might be a browser issue, so she tried a couple of different browsers but had the same problem. So I was wondering if anyone here has ever used Cold Turkey before and encountered similar problems, and if so, what did you do to fix it?

[Hobbes]

Hmm I've use Cold Turkey for RYL in the past and not had these problems :| (sorry for being no help :P)

[Unbreakable.]

I am here now on my laptop but with my parents internet. I don't know but could the issue be related to my IP adress or something? It might not even be a Cold Turkey issue but it started right afterwards.

[Pi.R^2]

Pretty sure ColdTurkey was a dick to me at one point too. I can't remember any details thus making this both a boring and unproductive story.

Could you try to fully uninstall Cold Turkey?

[Unbreakable.]

I did and did it according to the removal instructions on their site too.

[Pi.R^2]

*shakes fist at Cold Turkey*
This sounds very troublesome indeed. What about emailing ColdTurkey and asking if they've had anyone contact them with similar problems and what they'd recommend?

Also, there's a thing you can do where you can restore your system to what it was at a certain date, you you could restore it to the date you blocked RYL and see if that got rid of any bug that might be there? I can't remember how to do this, so once again my advice stops at the crucial point...

[Unbreakable.]

I emailed them and have had no reply so far. I also restored my system to a date before I blocked RYL. I might restore again and try to go through the removal instructions one more time just in case I missed something.

[The War Doctor]

Did you restore your system before following the removal instructions? As far as I know, Cold Turkey is a VERY difficult thing to get rid of and tends to extend its block on websites if it thinks it's being tampered with. If you restored your system before removing it, it may have seen that as you trying to tamper with it. So if you do decide to restore your system, remove Cold Turkey before you do it, not after.

I just realised this is kind of a pointless post, because you probably won't be able to read this for a while and it would be easier to tell you on Facebook or in person. :P

[Unbreakable.]

I don't know for how long this will be the case but it seems to work from home right now!