1.  Click on this link to get to the MY STUFF page. This will prompt you to login. Once logged in, the forum will recognize you. (You don't really have to complete posting the message.) Use your existing userid and password and you'll be correctly linked to your old messages.
2. Bookmark MY STUFFand use it as your jumping off point to enter the forums.  This assures you arrive at a forum fully identified via your login.
3. In My Stuff, set your name so we know who you are. ("You are number 6. I am number 2.")
4. If you have a signature to set, do it there, too.
5. Want a cute picture? Set up an avatar. There are some choices or you can upload your own. Pick an image 150x300 or 75x150.
6. If you're using a browser and not a CompuServe client (CS4, CS2000, CS7), be sure to accept cookies from "compuserve.com", "netscape.com" (depending on whether you're a CompuServe or Netscape member), "aol.com", and "prospero.com".  If you do not accept the cookies, you'll have to login each time you come into the forums.
7. Overwhelmed by the 6000+ messages already here?  On the messages screen, use the dropdown to select the more recent ones. Use the Find Messages box to the right search for messages by keyword(s).  To get completely caught up, look for the mark read button at the bottom right of the list of unread messages.
   

 >> Click on a the "reply" link for this message. This will prompt you to login. Once logged in, the forum will recognize you. (You don't really have to complete posting the message.) <<

It seems the way to get around that is that once having got yourself logged in, then go to "My Stuff" and add it to your favorites or whatever your browser calls it. Once done, then every time you start a new session by clicking on that favorite you will be taken to the forum's My Stuff page and that automatically logs you in.

Gene

Steven

>>Want a cute picture? Set up an avatar. There are some choices or you can upload your own. Pick an image 150x300 or 75x150.<<

I selected a picture from the choices but all I get is a picture space with a red X in the upper left corner on the My Stuff page.  Do you know what causes that?  I can see your picture ok in your messages.  Are you getting a picture in my message?

Thanks

Dave

I love roller coasters!!!

I thought I would try out some of the new features and see how they work. Don't worry, I will return to the normal routine I have used here over the last couple of years as soon as I have checked everything out.

^{Have A Great Day}

^{Dave Grimes}

"Bookmarking My Stuff is a great suggestion.  Once there, look at the list of recent forums. You can promote them into "favorite forums" so the links are always handy."

I have searched high and low but cannot see how to promote recently visited Forums to the echelons of being "Favourite Forums" in My Stuff, other than by creating links in Internet Explorer. Perhaps it is me trying to see something more complicated which is really quite simple. 

Wendy  (UK)

Ah .... so simple when you know how :-)

Thanks

Wendy  (UK)

Just one click on the tick will do the trick Hugh <g>

And as you say a click on the X in the My Favourite Forums will delete an entry, unless you visit it again and it once more becomes Recent.

Wendy  (UK)

<< If you create a desktop folder called "forum links" or something like that, you can use it to create a bunch of links into "saved" messages >>

The only problem I have with that is that the system names the shorcut with the message number which is meaningless in terms of finding it again and does not tell you even what Forum it comes from which you need to know if you want to search for it.

When for example you make a shortcut to a MSKB article it names it with the title of the article.

Unless someone knows something I don't <g>

Hugh
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Hugh
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