S
Stan Brown
Please read what Bruce Hagen said:
"Windows 7 is an OS and has nothing to do with the newsgroups."
Please read what Bruce Hagen said:
"Windows 7 is an OS and has nothing to do with the newsgroups."
S
Stan Brown
True, but they do seem to be pessimizing it.
S
Stan Brown
Please don't post upside down. And please *do* trim your quotes.
N
Nil
WLM (previous to this latest cock-up) seemed to me to be about as good
or bad as WM or Outlook Express. I never used any of them regularly, so
I could easily have missed some of OE's hidden charms.
N
Nil
I installed WLM 2011 and when I discovered I didn't like it, I
uninstalled it and reinstalled WLM 2009. No problems at all, my message
base and all settings were preserved.
Sounds like you went through a lot of unnecessary agony for nothing.
A
Alex Clayton
Stan Brown said:
I started in with Usenet with Web-TV. I started with a computer with a
Win.ME, then XP, Vista, and now W-7. I tried OE at first since it came with
the PC. Tired it for E-Mail but never liked it as much as web based E-mail,
so I just have stuck with Yahoo.
I tried T-Bird twice. first time was long ago because so many people said
everything was better than OE. I could not get it to work so I gave up since
to me OE seemed to be working fine.
I then tried it again with Vista because for a while MS had screwed up WM
so it would not work with Usenet. As usual MS was claiming nothing was wrong
on their end. I again could not get T-Bird to work with my news feed but
before trying to find out why someone suggested a free news feed that is
called Eternal September now, it was something else then. It worked with the
WM for some reason, so again I gave up on T-Bird.
When W-7 came along I loaded WLM and it was close enough to OE and WM as
far as a news reader that I could figure it out fast so stuck with it.
R
relic
Weasel said:
Did you also remove every other piece of Windows Live? Just removing the
mail piece isn't enough.
R
relic
Alias said:
Never!
J
Justin
Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3508.1109)
Copyright © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
for the time being.
Normally I use a Mac, but when I travel to dangerous places, I take my
crappy laptops - ones that run Windows of course.
"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
That's because you have stayed with WLM version 14. Heaven help those
who install v15 and expect to make sense of even a short thread!
Copyright © 2010 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
for the time being.
Normally I use a Mac, but when I travel to dangerous places, I take my
crappy laptops - ones that run Windows of course.
"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
That's because you have stayed with WLM version 14. Heaven help those
who install v15 and expect to make sense of even a short thread!
T
Tom Lake
"Stan Brown" wrote in message
Unless you are dissatisfied with your mail program, I can't imagine
why you'd install another one. Thunderbird is a mail program that
incidentally does newsgroups. You are much better off to install a
program that is intended to do newsgroups. My own personal favorite
is Gravity, but there are plenty of other choices that are superior
to Thunderbird, let alone WLM.
WLM works fine for me. I can read newsgroup messages, post to newsgroups
and have my replies automatically be put at the bottom of a message. That's
all I require in a newsreader. WLM can also combine binary files that are
posted
in pieces although I don't use that facility too often. What features do
other
people need that WLM can't provide?
Tom L
Unless you are dissatisfied with your mail program, I can't imagine
why you'd install another one. Thunderbird is a mail program that
incidentally does newsgroups. You are much better off to install a
program that is intended to do newsgroups. My own personal favorite
is Gravity, but there are plenty of other choices that are superior
to Thunderbird, let alone WLM.
WLM works fine for me. I can read newsgroup messages, post to newsgroups
and have my replies automatically be put at the bottom of a message. That's
all I require in a newsreader. WLM can also combine binary files that are
posted
in pieces although I don't use that facility too often. What features do
other
people need that WLM can't provide?
Tom L
C
Char Jackson
Do you see how your comments and Stan's comments look like they came
from the same person? That's just one of the things that's completely
broken in the newsreader you're using.
G
G. Morgan
Char Jackson said:
WLM does not add a ">" for quoted text? That's a major "whoops",
if so!
B
Bob Henson
Alias said:
I think they may find that Usenetters won't give up that easily. I can
think of a few that would change O/S rather than give in to Microsoft's
attempts at total domination and switch to their forums.
C
Char Jackson
It's so, alright, but it's not the only thing broken in WLM 15.
G
Gordon
EH? I've uninstalled WLM v15, re-installed and uninstalled again on W7
HP perfectly OK without having to do all that...
K
Ken Blake
True, but they do seem to be pessimizing it.
Making it worse? Yes, I agree.
K
Ken Blake
I can't talk about Windows Mail, since I hardly used it at all, but as
far as I'm concerned, Windows Live Mail is (and even was) *much* worse
than Outlook Express.
K
Ken Blake
So, rather than find out what your problem was, and fix it (see
Relic's reply), you took the extreme step of reinstalling Windows, and
all the work that involves. That's like replacing your car because it
got a flat tire.
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Weasel
I uninstalled anything to do with Windows Live. I even went thru the
registry and deleted all the entries for Windows Live. I tried everyday for
over a week before deciding to reinstall windows from scratch.
I was a programmer for 35 years. I do know how to do stuff manually with
windows and tried everything I could think of. Finally gave up.
registry and deleted all the entries for Windows Live. I tried everyday for
over a week before deciding to reinstall windows from scratch.
I was a programmer for 35 years. I do know how to do stuff manually with
windows and tried everything I could think of. Finally gave up.
R
relic
Tom Lake said:
Look at your quoting. WLM does NOT work fine for you.