From: Steve Giannoni on
Thanks for response ....

On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 14:19:05 +1200, "~misfit~"
<sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote:

>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Steve Giannoni wrote:
>> OK, sorry ....
>>
>> What group should this have been posted in ? ...
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:34:33 +1200, "~misfit~"
>> <sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>>> The yellow shield offers the following two updates, which appear to
>>>> install in the usual way :
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> Call me a pedant but I'm getting heartilly sick of seeing a hardware
>>> newsgroup filled up with Windows issues. There are several
>>> Windows-specific groups and the chances are that this issue has been
>>> resolved and they are much more likely to have the answer than folks
>>> (no matter how helpful) in a hardware group.
>>>
>>> Usenet has thousands of seperate groups for a reason..... All the
>>> well-meaning people who reply to posts like this do nothing to help
>>> keep groups on-topic.
>
>alt.comp.microsoft.windows?
>alt.comp.os.windows-xp?
>
>They are two of about 200 groups dedicated to windows issues on my news
>server. Also MS run their own web forums for this sort of thing. Google
>would have likely given you the answers too.