Vista - Re: a huge mistake

(cross-post added to Vista General)
"ScottShell" <ScottShell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:82E2EF21-7103-4971-AEE9-81F1FF0F0E48@microsoft.com...
> You won't get much help in this post because it's the wrong newsgroup.
> Curiously I could not find the Vista newsgroup. Does it not exist?


You're using a web interface to newsgroups so whether you can see
certain newsgroups or not depends on which "portal" you are using.
FYI I'm using a real NNTP newsreader with server msnews.microsoft.com

For convenience I'll cross-post to Vista General.
If your portal includes it you should be able to click on the
newsgroup name in the header of this message to enter it.

Ah. The OP's suggestion included a URL which would link you to that portal.
(Scroll to bottom of my reply to see that.) So you could click on that to enter
this thread, find this reply in it, and click on the link to the second newsgroup
name in it. (I've just done that. Apparently Vista newsgroups in that portal are
all grouped under a subfolder (instead of a newsgroup name): microsoft.public.windows.
So another alternative would be finding that subfolder link, expanding it
and then finding the newsgroup you want to open.)

Even better though, especially if you're going to be doing a lot of posting,
is to use a real newsreader. E.g. with default settings for both XP and Vista
you should be able to open a new NNTP news account by entering the
following URL in your Address bar:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/

You probably will want to do some personalizing of that account before posting.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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> At any
> rate, contact the people you bought Vista from and ask about the return
> policy. As for your devices not working, this is very common in Vista and I
> think the main reason is the people who make those devices do not have
> Vista-compatible drivers. It's their fault as much as Microsoft's.
>
> "laughing out loud" wrote:
>
>> can someone please help... i want to return windows vista home premium back..
>> its horrible.. i have had nothing but issues with this product. even tho my
>> computer states its vista compatable... its not! my dvd no longer works....
>> my cam ( which is built into my laptop) is not even working, nor is my
>> microphone. i get errors messages on everything i do.. i am soooooooo
>> frustrate with this. i cant believe microsoft is sending this product out.
>> also, the tech. that was helping install this .. which took 12hours to do. he
>> even said this was crap. what a shame. i have no idea what to do?
>>
>>
>>
>> "marcoviappia" wrote:
>>
>> > this program is a huge mistake.
>> > It continuesly crash down! and from the amount of posts i see here, i guess
>> > the problem is everybody's problem.
>> > I suggest microsoft to pay all those unlucky person who downloaded this
>> > harmful program with the money needed to cover all the lost works they had.
>> > Otherwise they could give us a free version of windows vista.
>> > And, by the way, Explorer 7 is user-unfriendly and not even good-looking.
>> > I don't see any positive quality of this program.
>> >
>> >
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