From: Timothy M. <gay...@ei...> - 2011-03-18 16:21:56
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Joe Konecny wrote: >>> There are loads of ms forums out there. Many of them are >>> very professional. >> >> Such as ... >> > > google them... They aren't hard to find. Look at the forum activity and > the number of replies and you can get a good idea of a good forum. This > should get you started... > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/forums/default.mspx > > http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories > > http://www.brianmadden.com/forums/default.aspx Well, if I have a Windows problem (quite common on my wife's work laptop) I always start by googling for "site:microsoft.com <problem>", so I would have met the first two you mention. I can only say that in my experience it is quite rare for anyone to offer sensible or helpful Windows advice without at the same time offering to run a "free" service to check your Registry, which turns out to cost $25 if you try to run it (after telling you that your Registry contains 573 errors). I'll try the third site you mention, maybe that will change my views. But at present I am firmly of the opinion that one is far more likely to get sensible advice (even about Windows problems) on Linux forums like this one. Of course, a Windows query on a Linux forum will lead to a lot of ranting, but one frequently gets an answer among the screams. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland |