20 Mar 16 10:57, you wrote to Jean Parrot:

 HG> Thanks for the hint. Actually, it never came into my mind that THAT
 HG> would work against autorun. In my mind I have played with the thought
 HG> that I may find a panel with settings, and to disable the autorun
 HG> setting.

 
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-security/how-do-i-disable-autorun-windows-7/7ba51974-c009-44ad-9067-f3968744175b?auth=1

OR one of these two...

  http://tinyurl.com/zzcctrp
  http://preview.tinyurl.com/zzcctrp

 HG> I'm still fighting Thunderbird. I want it to get the new messages
 HG> immeadetely to my HD, to be read/edited (bulletins), offline.

 HG> As it now seems to function, it seems to wait for me to save those
 HG> messages while still online.

trying to use thunderbird for reading newsgroups in offline mode is going
to be a real PITA...

at least each group has to be set to offline mode... you do that by
clicking on the group's name after you have subscribed to it... in the
properties, you select the group to be read offline... then there are a
couple of ways to tell t-bird to get the messages in the groups... one is
to use the online/offline button in the bottom left corner of the t-bird
window... when you click it to go offline, it will then download all the
messages... there's another way in the menu but i don't remember it...

it is just so much easier to subscribe to the groups and read the messages
as they are pulled down without having to play with the online/offline
mess... especially if you have an "always on" connection (eg:
cable or dsl) anyway...

)\/(ark

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