Windows Tips and Tricks

There is a page at Microsoft that might be very useful for anybody needing technical assistance. The title is “How to ask a question”. It is not quite the usual knowledge base article written in MicrosoftSpeak. I think you will find it quite interesting. Here is an excerpt

After posting a question to a professional forum or newsgroup and waiting for a while, you get the following answer(s) from the active forum/newsgroup members:

“Your question does not contain all the required information needed for us to help you.
Please re-write your question, this time make sure you have all the needed info and
we’ll try to help.”

Another symptom of this error is getting the following answer:

“You question has been answered a hundred times. Please use a decent search engine
and/or search our archives before posting any future questions”

I found the reference in a newsletter from Steve Bass.

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