Can you use Xnews with 64 bit Vista?

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Michael Yardley

Trying to use newreaders to block spam posts in van.general
Xnews seems ok for NT W95 and W98 32 bit. Can you use it on 64 bit
Vista ?
Q is "is it compatable with Vista"?
 
Michael Yardley said:
Trying to use newreaders to block spam posts in van.general
Xnews seems ok for NT W95 and W98 32 bit. Can you use it on 64 bit
Vista ?
Q is "is it compatable with Vista"?
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Hi Michael,

I use Xnews on 64-bit Vista and don't have many problems. It is as reliable
on 64-bit Vista, as it was on 32-bit XP.

I wouldn't say Xnews is "compatible" with Vista, but it isn't INcompatible.
As far as I know, Luu Tran isn't maintaining Xnews and he hasn't made an
"official" release since version 5.04.25. There's a beta "test" version
dated 24 Aug 2006, that may be the one to try.

I use Windows Mail to read microsoft newsgroups, and Xnews for everything
else. Personally I love Xnews and think it is the best newsreader ever.

I occasionally get an access violation in the RichEdit control, but I got
that with Xnews on XP and Windows 2000 as well. It's not too big a problem.

Hope this helps,
 
Michael said:
Trying to use newreaders to block spam posts in van.general
Xnews seems ok for NT W95 and W98 32 bit. Can you use it on 64 bit
Vista ?
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Apparently. I'm doing it right now.
 
Apparently. I'm doing it right now.
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The nice thing about xnews is that it does nothing to the registry, it
is totally self contained. I transferred over my entire Agent 1.93 to
Vista and it too works fine (again, no registry entries).

Since Xnews is self contained, just install and try it.

Mike
 
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