Virgin Media provides a world-class newsgroups service free of charge to our Internet customers, and we keep over 30,000 of the most popular newsgroups in the world up to date on our news servers. You can access them via newsreaders like Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird, or through websites like Google Groups, although you will find that newsreaders tend to provide richer features like notifications when a new post is added to your favourite newsgroups.

To get you started we'll show you how to set up and subscribe (don't worry - you won't have to pay) to your first Virgin Media newsgroups in Outlook Express. First you'll need to check you have Outlook Express available on your computer:

1. Click on the Start button in the bottom left of your screen.
2. Wait for that menu to pop up and you should see Outlook Express in the left half of the panel - click on this to open up the program and you can start to set up newsgroups for Outlook Express.
3. If you can't find this, then hover over All Programs and another menu should pop up - you should see Outlook Express within the long list of programs - click on this to open up the program and you can start to set up newsgroups for Outlook Express.