need help with newsgroups badly

Hi I really need some help here. Using a Compaq Presario Desktop with
Windows Vista Home Premium and IE 7 and I can post and reply to other
newsgroups just fine, but when I went into the Vista newsgroups and went to
reply to a message no window pops ups. I tried multiple times and I can post
and reply to other newsgroups such as this one and the internet explorer
newsgroup. I tried to see if it was my browser or the website so I tried
from a different computer a Dell PC running XP as OS and IE 7 and the same
thing happened no window popped up to reply. My pop up blocker is off. I
cannot afford $60 to pay Microsoft and they said it was my IE settings, but I
cannot see how that is if all the other newsgroups work fine and the problem
repeats on two computers. Ay ideas from anybody? Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Raymond

Setting up Windows Mail (Vista) to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/mi...-windows-mail/

Click on of the following links to open the newsgroup in your default
newsreader:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...unts_passwords
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ile_management
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ws.vista.games
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....vista.general
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...are_assessment
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...rdware_devices
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...allation_setup
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.vista.mail
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ctures_vide o
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...orking_sharing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof..._mainten ance
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...print_fax_scan
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...vista.security
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MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/

Kaja wrote:
> Hi I really need some help here. Using a Compaq Presario Desktop with
> Windows Vista Home Premium and IE 7 and I can post and reply to other
> newsgroups just fine, but when I went into the Vista newsgroups and went
> to
> reply to a message no window pops ups. I tried multiple times and I can
> post and reply to other newsgroups such as this one and the internet
> explorer newsgroup. I tried to see if it was my browser or the website so
> I tried from a different computer a Dell PC running XP as OS and IE 7 and
> the same thing happened no window popped up to reply. My pop up blocker
> is
> off. I cannot afford $60 to pay Microsoft and they said it was my IE
> settings, but I cannot see how that is if all the other newsgroups work
> fine and the problem repeats on two computers. Ay ideas from anybody?
> Any
> help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> Raymond

You won't get much sympathy here if you're using the web interface. It's
the worst way to read a newsgroup.

Instead of frustrating yourself by trying to read a newsgroup through a
web interface, read this newsgroup and all newsgroups the proper way:
with a newsreader. Outlook Express is your newsreader in Windows XP. In
Windows Vista it's Windows Mail.

"Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader"
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

"Accessing Newsgroups With Windows Mail"
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/accessi...ndows_mail.htm

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Leonard Grey
Errare Humanum Est

Security Tips for Everyone, from PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334856,00.asp

Kaja wrote:
> Hi I really need some help here. Using a Compaq Presario Desktop with
> Windows Vista Home Premium and IE 7 and I can post and reply to other
> newsgroups just fine, but when I went into the Vista newsgroups and went to
> reply to a message no window pops ups. I tried multiple times and I can post
> and reply to other newsgroups such as this one and the internet explorer
> newsgroup. I tried to see if it was my browser or the website so I tried
> from a different computer a Dell PC running XP as OS and IE 7 and the same
> thing happened no window popped up to reply. My pop up blocker is off. I
> cannot afford $60 to pay Microsoft and they said it was my IE settings, but I
> cannot see how that is if all the other newsgroups work fine and the problem
> repeats on two computers. Ay ideas from anybody? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> Raymond

nntp newgroups don't have pop-ups, you must be talking about the forums.

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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression






"Kaja" <Kaja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3D03273F-87BB-451A-8765-114763C872AC@microsoft.com...
> Hi I really need some help here. Using a Compaq Presario Desktop with
> Windows Vista Home Premium and IE 7 and I can post and reply to other
> newsgroups just fine, but when I went into the Vista newsgroups and went
> to
> reply to a message no window pops ups. I tried multiple times and I can
> post
> and reply to other newsgroups such as this one and the internet explorer
> newsgroup. I tried to see if it was my browser or the website so I tried
> from a different computer a Dell PC running XP as OS and IE 7 and the same
> thing happened no window popped up to reply. My pop up blocker is off. I
> cannot afford $60 to pay Microsoft and they said it was my IE settings,
> but I
> cannot see how that is if all the other newsgroups work fine and the
> problem
> repeats on two computers. Ay ideas from anybody? Any help would be
> greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> Raymond

"Kaja" <Kaja@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:3D03273F-87BB-451A-8765-114763C872AC@microsoft.com...
> Hi I really need some help here. Using a Compaq Presario Desktop with
> Windows Vista Home Premium and IE 7 and I can post and reply to other
> newsgroups just fine, but when I went into the Vista newsgroups and went to
> reply to a message no window pops ups. I tried multiple times and I can post
> and reply to other newsgroups such as this one and the internet explorer
> newsgroup.

> I tried to see if it was my browser or the website so I tried
> from a different computer a Dell PC running XP as OS and IE 7 and the same
> thing happened no window popped up to reply.


Good test. You've proved that that Vista portal is still broken. Nothing new.



> My pop up blocker is off. I
> cannot afford $60 to pay Microsoft and they said it was my IE settings, but I
> cannot see how that is if all the other newsgroups work fine and the problem
> repeats on two computers. Ay ideas from anybody? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.


Use a different portal. Some of them aren't always broken.

Otherwise, as others are telling you use a real NNTP newsreader,
no login or Cookies required. <eg>


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