Re: Vista newsgroups?

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In news:45cf8f92$0$8935$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Cooter <cooter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Using OE on an XP machine since I don't have the Vista
machine
completely set up yet. Just reset the newsgroups here and
still come
up with "There are no items in this view". I'll give it a try
on the
Vista machine using MS Communities as soon as I get a news
account
working.

Windows Vista Discussion groups via the web interface
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx

Clicking on any of these newsgroups should get you set up with
the MS news server.

Windows Vista newsgroups available on the Microsoft News Server

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.administration_accounts_passwords

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.games

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.music_pictures_video

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.vista.security

Good luck

Nepatsfan


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