After formatting my laptop, I found out that the setting for my Internet Explorer has changed.

Let say I clear all the cookies. Then I play the hourly game. Ok, it's fine for the first hour. But when I try to play it again for the second hour, the SAME questions appear (from the first hour) and this causes me have to click "refresh" for almost every page on FT. It seems that my IE stores every information on every page and when I click the same link, same information will appear, but FT's hourly questions are different for every hour.

Does anyone know how to avoid this? Maybe there is something I can do with my IE's setting? Thanks.

Not being an IE expert, I do recall there is a setting to dictate how often you use your browser's cached version.

If you go to Tools -> Internet Options -> then click on 'settings' next to 'Browsing History", what does it say for how often your computer checks for newer versions? Mine is set to 'automatically' and I don't have this problem. Maybe yours is set to 'never'?

Thank you so much ladymacb29, problem solved.