Help and Support Page

[Guest]

What happened to the Non Net Passport community posting site?Please try one of the following options to continue your search:
Check the address for typing errors.
Click the Back button and try a different option.
Try this page again later.......................................So, is this
site no longer available? I don`t know if I can explain it better,before I
had added it to my "favorites" I would
type in www. Microsoft Help And Support,ect, and I would go to a site that
had links ( in blue) on top like: downloads, products, newsgroups,ect...if
you clicked on newsgroups you would get to this site which as I stated,
didn`t require "sign in" or "sign up" or anything in order to post and
reply,it also displayed the time that a post was made,ect....Does anyone
know what I`m talking about?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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Windows XP Newsgroups
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For a better Microsoft newsgroup experience:

Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

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|> > What happened to the Non Net Passport community posting site?
| > >
| > > I`m talking about a microsoft newsgroup site that I used to access that did not require Net Passport membership! I accessed it
from the following address : (http://support.microsoft.com/aspx?404;/newsgroups/welcome.aspx) now when I try to go there ( I had it
saved in my "favorites") I get a page displaying this message :
The Requested Web Page is Not AvailableThe page you were looking for is currently not available. The address may not be correct, or
there may be a temporary problem with this site.
| Please try one of the following options to continue your search:
| Check the address for typing errors.
| Click the Back button and try a different option.
| Try this page again later.......................................So, is this
| site no longer available? I don`t know if I can explain it better,before I
| had added it to my "favorites" I would
| type in www. Microsoft Help And Support,ect, and I would go to a site that
| had links ( in blue) on top like: downloads, products, newsgroups,ect...if
| you clicked on newsgroups you would get to this site which as I stated,
| didn`t require "sign in" or "sign up" or anything in order to post and
| reply,it also displayed the time that a post was made,ect....Does anyone
| know what I`m talking about?

 

[Guest]

I`m not downplaying the site in which we are currently communicating with
each other, I`m just wondering where a particular site that I`d been using
had gone to all of a sudden? But to be honest, it was a visually more
interesting,more user friendly,had more topics and/or discussion options and
more space in which to work,scroll,...you name it!... Hey,one day it was
there,the next it was gone...no big thing, I was just wondering if anyone
else was familiar with it and knew what happened,or if something had changed
about my machine ( this occured after I`d installed some security updates
from windows update). Thanks for your response