OT: Thunderbird issues

[Roger Mills]

Sorry for the OT, but I know that there are some TB experts here!

I'm running TB - mainly for newsgroups - on 2 different W7 PC's - v11 on one and v17 on the other.

The window layout on v11 is how I like it - matching my Windows Classic theme, with a a dark blue bar at the top when the window is active and grey when it's not, and with rectangular tabs.

No way can I get PC with v17 to match that. There's a wide grey bar at the top which goes darker when the window is inactive, and tabs with curved ends. At least with Firefox, I've usually been able to find some theme as an add-on to make it look right - but I can't find any TB equivalent. Am I missing something, or is it impossible.

Also, when replying to posts "Reply" on v17 sends a reply to the individual poster rather than to the group, and I have to use "Followup" instead. Is this fixable?

Finally, if I copy all the profile files from v11 to v17, v17 connects to the usenet server without any problem, and has all my messages displayed - but if I do it the other way round, v11 then starts asking for server username and password. Is this what you would expect!

Why do these cretins keep insisting on fixing things which ain't broken?

[newshound]

Not difficult to remove "reply" (just not particularly intuitive).

Right click on the bar with the buttons, click customise, and another funny looking window opens. You can then drag and drop the reply button off its bar to the new window? Or something like that.

[Andy Burns]

I've not found a decent "old-hat" theme for TB, but if you alter the shortcut you use to run TB, advanced properties and set compatibility mode for Win2000, it'll calm down the theme somewhat.

I wouldn't expect good results in using a profile that's been running a new version back on an old version, the other way round (as you've seen) should be fine.