If you are like me, you keep backups or copies of important data that you no longer need on your computer in case you need access it in the future again. This is for instance true for old emails that I archive regularly to make my email program more responsive. I use Mailstore for that, [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Microsoft’s desktop email client Outlook offers a conversations view which users can activate under the View ribbon toolbar. What it does is that it groups emails from the same sender or group of senders together so that it becomes easier to access all of them at once. Very handy if you need to read a [...]

Categories: Email

While I’m a Thunderbird user at heart, I run Microsoft Outlook as well on all of my computer systems. I have tested and worked with dozens of third party Outlook tools over the past years of which a few have proven to be very useful. This article offers a short but handy list of Microsoft [...]

Categories: Email, Software

If you use Microsoft’s Outlook Connector software to synchronise Microsoft Outlook on your PC with your Hotmail or GMail account, then you might want to read this.  It’s become apparent that the latest update to the software, part of Microsoft’s Live Essentials Suite, has broken the calendar synchronisation with Hotmail, and may also be causing [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Microsoft did enable full session HTTPS encryption for their Hotmail email service back in November 2010. This was regarded by experts and users alike as a step in the right direction, considering that SSL connections improve security significantly over standard HTTP connections. Less than a year later more than two million users have opted in [...]

Categories: Email, Security

If you have a web based email account, chance is that you either use Yahoo Mail, Google Mail or Microsoft Hotmail for that account. There are hundreds of smaller email providers, but those are the big three. Microsoft recently announced new features and improvements for their Hotmail email service on the Inside Windows Live blog. [...]

Categories: Email, Online Services

Microsoft Outlook users who receive many file attachments of the same name will run into a can’t create file error message eventually. This can happen for instance if voicemail or faxes are routed to email. The core problem is this. Outlook creates a temporary copy of each attachment in a directory, and appends a number [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Text Lightning is a free Microsoft Outlook add-in that integrates seamlessly into the desktop email client. The add-in offers a host of features that improve productivity, from one-click insertion of text, images and files to customizing text templates, one click searching and message archiving with a single click. Installation of the Microsoft Outlook add-on should [...]

Categories: Tools

It is sometimes necessary to start the desktop email client Outlook with startup parameters, usually to resolve issues or troubleshoot the email client. System administrators and tech savvy users should not have difficulties finding a list of available shortcuts and adding them to the start of the email client. Everyone else might like the free [...]

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