Gianluigi send me an interesting email just a few minutes ago that described a small script that he wrote that would allow users to create outlook tasks from the command line and Launchy. The real benefit of this approach is speed and it can be especially handy for those users who do use Launchy because [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft Outlook 2007 Service Pack 1 freezes and hangs occasionally for some users depending on their actions. A search on Google revealed more than 250000 pages for the search term Outlook Freezes. The developer of the Defrost Outlook software mentions one instance where his software can help overcome a seemingly frozen Microsoft Outlook: Fix for [...]

Categories: Email, Uncategorized

“This is a guest post by Ben Carigtan, a technology enthusiast and staff writer at Online-Tech-Tips.” Is your outlook mailbox a mess? Do you miss reading important emails because of the tons of emails you receive on your inbox? Do you want to organize it in such a way that you move a group of [...]

Categories: Email, Knowledge

Microsoft Outlook .pst (Personal Folder) files can be password protected with a very weak encryption algorithm which is great for users who have forgotten the password of their password protected files. Those users, and anyone else, will unfortunately also come to the conclusion that a weak password protection might keep a spying wife or co-worker [...]

Categories: Email, Software

My mailbox is growing in size everyday and it’s already so huge that I cannot back it up on CD anymore. That’s a common complaint that I hear and read rather often these days. This stems from two sources. The first is that the user in question is not compressing his mail folders which saves [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows

Moving mails and news from Outlook Express into another application can be quite a challenging task. Many mail clients, including Thunderbird, support the import of Outlook Express mails from the default user. The mails of additional users will not be imported during that procedure. One great way to import all mails and all news into [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Backing up your email accounts regularly is a pretty important task and a safety measure in case something goes wrong and you cannot access the account anymore. Most users collect emails over the years and keep them just like they would keep letters that have been send to them by friends and relatives. Loosing those [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Software, Windows

I spend the morning at a house of a friend who bought a new computer and wanted some of his data transfered from this old computer to the new computer. The old computer was running Windows XP and Outlook Express, the new one was a shiny new Acer Desktop PC running Windows Vista Home Premium [...]

Categories: Email, Operating Systems, Windows

Many PC users are still using Microsoft Outlook as their main email application. It’s rather convenient because Outlook Express ships with the Windows operating system and the retail Outlook is part of Microsoft Office if I recall correctly. The biggest advantage of Outlook is in my opinion that it is already there, was never a [...]

Categories: Email, Software