Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

"SteveB" wrote in message
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Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Mozilla Thunderbird is your friend . So is Firefox .
--
Snag
Who uses both .

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:57:33 -0500, "Snag" wrote:


"SteveB" wrote in message
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Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Mozilla Thunderbird is your friend . So is Firefox .
--
Snag
Who uses both .


I suspect he means for a Newsreader. I think Forte Agent works great
for this.

I've not tried W8. I'm in an every other release mode for m$oft. In
fact I want to figure how to dual boot back to XP. W7 is not my friend
for peer to peer file sharing and backup.

Karl


Karl

SteveB wrote:
Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Welcome to hell..... Been running 8 for 7 months now.

Which program are you trying to set up?

I can tell you that the included mail program sucks...

I went back in time and am running an ancient version of t-bird. Allows
newsgroup access and Email, but doesn't have all the tabs, colors and
crap in the way.

T-bird 2.0.0.24 runs just fine. And it allows easy filtering.

--
Steve W.

On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 10:55:16 -0700, SteveB wrote:

Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

If you still have the old computer, it might be possible for you to just
copy & move your entire Thunderbird profile (settings and everything) to
the new computer using Mozbackup.

I've used Mozbacvkup many times on XP & Win 7 systems - and it works
like a treat. First use Mozbacup create a backup of the old profile on
the old system (works for firefox too) - usually on a memory stick; then
just reverse the process on the new system by using Mozbackup to
"retsore" the old profile on the new computer. (You need to have
Thunderbird already installed on the new system)

I've never done this on Win 8; so there could be issues I'm not aware
of.

Mozbackup can be downloaded here (or you can google for other sites)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mozbackup/

hope it helps.

Bill
--
Email address is a Spam trap.

"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
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On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:57:33 -0500, "Snag" wrote:


"SteveB" wrote in message
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Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Mozilla Thunderbird is your friend . So is Firefox .
--
Snag
Who uses both .


I suspect he means for a Newsreader. I think Forte Agent works great
for this.

I've not tried W8. I'm in an every other release mode for m$oft. In
fact I want to figure how to dual boot back to XP. W7 is not my friend
for peer to peer file sharing and backup.

Karl

Thunderbird IS a news reader . Only reason I don't use it for newsgroups
is that I'm still using OE . I use Tbird for my msn.com account so I don't
have to use outlook.com . They're almost as bad as google ...
--
Snag

On 4/10/2013 5:01 AM, Steve W. wrote:
SteveB wrote:
Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they
could move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Welcome to hell..... Been running 8 for 7 months now.

Which program are you trying to set up?

I can tell you that the included mail program sucks...

I went back in time and am running an ancient version of t-bird. Allows
newsgroup access and Email, but doesn't have all the tabs, colors and
crap in the way.

T-bird 2.0.0.24 runs just fine. And it allows easy filtering.



And hell it is! W8 sucks balls.

I concur with Snag & yourself. I too now use Firefox & Thunderbird.

Filtering on NGs seems to workok.

On Thursday, October 3, 2013 10:55:16 AM UTC-7, SteveB wrote:
Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could

move. How do I filter now?



Steve

Windows 8 ****ing blows and it's for morons. I'm using Windows 7 64bit which I find preferable to Windows XP 64 bit. In addition, many modern CADCAM programs no longer support Windows XP. I will never downgrade to Windows 8 or 8.1. but for you I'm sure Windows 8 will be just wonderful.

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 12:57:33 -0500, "Snag" wrote:


"SteveB" wrote in message
...
Got a new puter. Windows 8. They moved every frickin thing they could
move. How do I filter now?

Steve

Mozilla Thunderbird is your friend . So is Firefox .
--
Snag
Who uses both .


Forte Agent is a much better friend.


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