Re: STILL unable to Run EXPLORER.EXE . . . HELP!!

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 20:16:00 -0700, Thining about it
<Thiningaboutit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken . . .
I Understand . . . I'm sorry for the mistakes in re-posting instead of
adding to the original post & my miss-understanding of the term "Cross Post".
All my years of using Forums, I guess I never had a reason to try and post on
multiple groups under the same umbrella before. I was just trying to find the
"best fit" for my problem . . . NOT create more problems. SORRY!!


No need to be sorry. My intent wasn't to chastise you, but to give you
helpful advice for posting in the future.



I'll keep all my comments on the GENERAL XP group after this. I assume that
is best. PLEASE Advise if I should NOW handle different. AGAIN . . . SORRY!


No, which newsgroup is best depends on the particular question you
have. General isn't necessarily best for everything.

And there are times when it *can* make sense to post to two or more
groups. I wasn't trying to dissuade you from doing that, but rather to
point out the proper way to do it--by *cross-posting*, not by
multiposting.

While we are talking about how to post, let me point out that you are
using the web interface to participate in this newsgroup. That's the
slowest, clunkiest, most error-prone method there is. Do yourself a
favor and switch to a newsreader, such as Outlook Express, which comes
with Windows. See
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm




"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:18:03 -0700, Thining about it
<Thiningaboutit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HELP!!

I'm really stumped on this problem!! I've posted on this forum earlier
at
http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/aspx/notifauth.aspx?url=http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroups/reader.mspx%3fdg%3dmicrosoft.public.windowsxp.general%26mid%3dca1f7e1c-93be-4e13-b537-df27c659e2e3

Please forgive me but i figured the old post was getting pretty
confused, and I am not getting any new ideas, so I cleaned up my post and
summerized the problem and things tried with a new post.


Please, never do that. It's fine to clean things up and post again, if
you still have the problem, but always post to the old thread. Do not
start a new one.


I've also cross
posted this to a few other XP forums, so if you are reading this again,
please forgive me.



No, you didn't crosspost it, you multiposted it. Please never do that
either. Please do not send the same message separately to more than
one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just fragments the
thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see
answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all
the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message
multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you
correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets
you poorer help than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).

Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across
multiple newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
Please Reply to the Newsgroup
.

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