How can you control and change when you accept a cookie?

If your router has multiple ports - one port will connect to your broadband (WAN) and the others will connect to any of the remaining ports.  The router probably is set up for DHCP so, each machine will acquire its own IP address from that and then you should be able to connect (assuming they're all in the same workgroup).

Sorry wrong post!

Yes Tools/Options/Privacy Tab will allow you to adjust these settings.

If you set it to prompt you each time, you can then select "Always Enable" or "Always Block" on each new site you visit.

And if you ever accidentally "Always Block" the wrong one, come back to the privacy tab to Edit the sites (or shortcut - double-click the 'red-eye' in the status bar)

More info: http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q283/1/85.ASP&NoWebContent=1

Or use a browser with better cookie controls, like the Mozilla Firebird browser I'm using right now (www.mozilla.org)

i'd like to recommend opera as your browser for its pretty powerful cookie control, certainly, it also has a lot of other useful features.

as already said: use any mozilla based browser (Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape, ..) or Opera
AFAIK, mozilla has best control (blacklists, whitelists, per-cookie-accept, etc.), currently

I don't have a problem with cookies using IE (I've tried Opera and didn't like it).  I also have Netscape and prefer IE, especially with the MyIE2 add-on.
I'm asked at each site if I want to accept or block a cookie.  If it's a site I need cookies on, I'll say accept and check for everytime hereafter.  Otherwise, I choose block for everytime thereafter.  Now I don't see those messages as often, unless I'm visiting new sites.

with opera, you can view the cookies list and manage (edit, delete) them one by one, so you can exactly control cookies. with IE, i dont think so, you can not see a CURRENT list, only can manage an allow/block list.

may be there exists a add-on/plug.in for IE, I don't know, but checkout mozilla's Cookie Manager and you probably see what its good for ..

Thanks all for your input, however I didn't want to change browsers just wanted to change some setting from within IE.

TooKoolKirs,

Thanks for the code, this works well and I just have to change the number and run it.

filefolders, sometimes it might be better to write down personal preferences,
then you'll not see suggestions about better solitions for your problem ;-)
Anyway, hope you got it now, somehow ..