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-sec   
   rity/how-do-i-disable-autorun-windows-7/7ba51974-c009-44ad-9067-   
   3968744175b?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   
      
   Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
      
   ... Just as I was catching up with the Joneses, they refinanced.   
   ---   
    * Origin:  (1:3634/12.73)