Favourite Links

Weather

If you have a problem with Windows look at one of these sites -  you'll probably find the answer there!

The weather is almost always:

Cloudy - with rain at times

(summarised as: 9 months Winter - 3 months bad weather!)

Breaking News

If you have Outlook Express installed, and use it for email, then you can subscribe to the MS public newsgroups directly. There's no fee, and no particular requirements - just click on this link, and it will set up an account, and take you to the Windows ME general discussion group. It will also download all the available newsgroup titles on the MS servers, and you can search them for one more appropriate for your needs. Subscribe to ones you want to see details of, and you're off!

Newsgroups for OE

If you don't use OE, then you can still access the newsgroups through the Web interface (also known as the CDO). At present the interface is atrocious - but it does work, and it's being updated/upgraded quite a lot this year, so things should improve.

Click on this link for the introduction.

CDO Newsgroups

<Validation - the xml file!>

AND!!! - a new HOST!! - I finally have a proper website, on a proper host, so please update your shortcuts, and replace "http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel" with  "http://www.crashfixpc.com" - at present this is actually the crashfixpc.be site, for administrative reasons, but the .com site will become the lead site in the future.

AND!!! - a new page!! I've added some ideas on improving the performance of Windows ME on the new page - "Getting the Most out of ME".

AND!!! - a new email address!!

Feel free to email feedback to cfpspamless@crashfixpc.com - my new monitored email address for site-related issues. As always, ALL email to this address is read (even the spam, just for fun!) - but I won't guarantee a response, as I may have to live in the real world and earn some money :)

AND!!! - W3 Validation! - What does this mean? - it means that at least in theory, this page should display in all browsers capable of rendering HTML4.01 - which any modern browser should be able to do.

In 2002, I was awarded the status of MS-MVP (Win9x) for the first time, and re-awarded in 2003,  2004 and now 2005 - if you want to see what that means, then look here

MVP Program - Introduction