Since very little is being posted to the windowsupdate newsgroup these days,
I tried to check the Windowx XP forums online--and I'm lost. I want to find
out if there have been problems with the lastest Microsoft Updates for
Windows XP before I download them. In the past, I could look at this
newsgroup and get a good idea of whether any new updates were causing severe
problems.

I went to the Windows XP forum page, but there appears to be no Windows XP
Updates forum--although I believe such forums exist for Windows 7 and maybe
Vista.

Could someone point me to the Windows XP updates forum?

Thank you!

Jo-Anne

Hello Jo-Anne,

Am 18.09.2010 01:42 schrieb Jo-Anne:

> Since very little is being posted to the windowsupdate newsgroup these days,
> I tried to check the Windowx XP forums online--and I'm lost.
> [...]
> Could someone point me to the Windows XP updates forum?

<http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp>.
Please scroll down to the link "Windows Update".

And please cf.
<http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/ea9b3909254c6df7?hl=de>

HTH.

Regards,
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Thank you, Matthias! I knew that Microsoft was discontinuing its sponsorship
of the newsgroups--but the Windows Update forum is for Windows 7, not
Windows XP. I suppose that's all we're going to get, however, so XP users
will have to post there (although when I searched for updates in the general
Windows XP area, I found that people were posting in many forums--security,
performance, etc.).

Jo-Anne


"Matthias Spanier" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello Jo-Anne,
>
> Am 18.09.2010 01:42 schrieb Jo-Anne:
>
>> Since very little is being posted to the windowsupdate newsgroup these
>> days,
>> I tried to check the Windowx XP forums online--and I'm lost.
>> [...]
>> Could someone point me to the Windows XP updates forum?
>
> <http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsxp>.
> Please scroll down to the link "Windows Update".
>
> And please cf.
> <http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/ea9b3909254c6df7?hl=de>
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
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> Die Money99V2000-Site: <http://www.money99.de.tf/>
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Jo-Anne wrote:
> Thank you, Matthias! I knew that Microsoft was discontinuing its sponsorship
> of the newsgroups--but the Windows Update forum is for Windows 7, not
> Windows XP. I suppose that's all we're going to get, however, so XP users
> will have to post there (although when I searched for updates in the general
> Windows XP area, I found that people were posting in many forums--security,
> performance, etc.).
>
> Jo-Anne

All editions of Windows are lumped into one forum which leads to
cornfusion, not to be confused with corn sugar or high fructose corn
syrup. <w>

We've repeatedly asked MS to offer a drop down window like the one in
the Office forums that require a User to choose the edition of Office
and OS, like this one, Joanne -

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ilter=alltypes

As far as waiting on MS, it's like waiting for Godot.

MowGreen
================
*-343-* FDNY
Never Forgotten
================

"Security updates should *never* have *non-security content* prechecked

"MowGreen" <> wrote in message
news:i731uo$7bt$...
> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> Thank you, Matthias! I knew that Microsoft was discontinuing its
>> sponsorship
>> of the newsgroups--but the Windows Update forum is for Windows 7, not
>> Windows XP. I suppose that's all we're going to get, however, so XP users
>> will have to post there (although when I searched for updates in the
>> general
>> Windows XP area, I found that people were posting in many
>> forums--security,
>> performance, etc.).
>>
>> Jo-Anne
>
> All editions of Windows are lumped into one forum which leads to
> cornfusion, not to be confused with corn sugar or high fructose corn
> syrup. <w>
>
> We've repeatedly asked MS to offer a drop down window like the one in the
> Office forums that require a User to choose the edition of Office and OS,
> like this one, Joanne -
>
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ilter=alltypes
>
> As far as waiting on MS, it's like waiting for Godot.
>
> MowGreen


That it is, MowGreen! I understand slow (or never--as you pointed out), but
the setup is so bad as to make me wonder if anyone there thought about it at
all. I noticed, among other issues, that the Windows 7 forum for Windows
Update has a web address that appears to be for Vista:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...istawu/threads

even though the forum header is

Windows > Windows Forums > Windows 7 Forums > Windows Update

Newsgroups were much simpler and much more helpful!

Jo-Anne

Hello MowGreen,

Am 18.09.2010 20:55 schrieb MowGreen:

> Jo-Anne wrote:
>> [...] the Windows Update forum is for Windows 7, not
>> Windows XP. I suppose that's all we're going to get, however, so XP users
>> will have to post there (although when I searched for updates in the general
>> Windows XP area, I found that people were posting in many forums--security,
>> performance, etc.).
>
> All editions of Windows are lumped into one forum which leads to
> cornfusion, not to be confused with corn sugar or high fructose corn
> syrup. <w>

Thank you for that information.
Cf.
<http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vistawu/thread/1467f44b-ee27-4f7d-98d7-f1c4b35b3395>.

> We've repeatedly asked MS to offer a drop down window like the one in
> the Office forums that require a User to choose the edition of Office
> and OS, like this one, Joanne -
>
> http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ilter=alltypes
>
> As far as waiting on MS, it's like waiting for Godot.

:-(

Regards,
Matthias
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