Hi, JCameron.
Yeah, I get lost in that Communities maze, too. That's one of the reasons
that I - and most of the experienced users I know - prefer to use a
newsreader application, like Outlook Express or Windows Mail or the
still-in-beta Windows Live Mail that I'm using now.
Click here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
That one click should (unless you are blocked by something like a corporate
firewall): Start Outlook Express (if you are running Win2K or WinXP) or
Windows Mail (if you were running Vista); create a News Account for the
Microsoft public news server (which is free and does not require a logon);
subscribe you to the Win2K hardware NG; and download the 300 newest headers
from there and display the newest one for you.
From there, you can read a few messages to get the feel for what you see.
Then you can click Tools | Options to customize OE/WM/WLM to suit your own
preferences. Click Newsgroups to see a list of all the NGs on that server,
including this one: microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices. Just
type "2000" or "2k" into the search box at the top to see all those for
Win2K (nearly 100, about half in English). Subscribe to as many as you
like.
The messages that you will see are exactly the same ones that you see in
Communities, just arranged differently. In other words, that Vista hardware
NG will bring you right back to here and you will see your posts and this
message. ;<)
Try it. I think you'll like it!
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail beta 2 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 beta v.275)
