After subscribing to any groups you want, save to your disk. Your user group list and your preferences file will be saved to your disk. After you have created a NewsWatcher disk, just double-click on your user group from your disk instead of the NewsWatcher icon on the hard drive. The full group list is retrieved from the news server the first time you run NewsWatcher. The full group list window is always available, although you may hide it if you wish by closing it or by using the Hide Full Group List command in the Windows menu.
Most people like to keep the full group list hidden most of the time.
When you hide this window, the command in the Windows menu changes to Show Full Group List. Use this command to show the full group list again when you need to use it. Each time you run NewsWatcher, it checks to see if any new groups have been created since the last time you ran the program. You can subscribe to the new groups, or just close the window if you don't wish to subscribe to any of them. Both the full group list and the new groups list are always kept in alphabetical order.