Turn off the communities features

Windows Mail will not check your newsgroup servers for Communities support.

Supported on: At least Windows Vista
Registry HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Mail
Value NameDisableCommunities
Value TypeREG_DWORD
Enabled Value1
Disabled Value0

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