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38 Hotmail - Email Messages and Service

120 Outlook Express - Save an Email Letter

122 Outlook Express - Save Copy of Email in your Sent Folder

124 Outlook Express - Save Many Emails On a Disk The Quick Way

127 Outlook Express - Send an Email

136 Outlook Express - Using BCC to hide e-mail addresses

159 View Double Extensions

180 Windows Explorer - Make all Folders Show Details/Thumbnails Automatically

224 Email - Services Available

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38 Hotmail - Email Messages and Service

Hotmail was founded by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia and publicly announced on June 5, 1996 It was one of the first free webmail services. 3 years and 8 million users later, it sold to Microsoft for $400 million.

There is an interesting story behind the discovery of Hotmail and is well worth the time to read how it all began. Click on this following link.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/hotmale.html

Hotmail has gone through many changes since it began and continues to change on an ongoing basis. To get the very latest on what Hotmail has to offer, click on the following link.

http://get.live.com/mail/features

For other Email Services, see 224

120 Outlook Express - Save an Email Letter

Open OE

	Select your Inbox
	Open the Email you wish to save
	Left click on File

Select Save As...

When the Save Message As window opens

	In the Save in: field
	Select My Documents
	At this time, you may wish to Create New Folder
	Type in an appropriate name for the New Folder
	With your "New Folder" selected, left click on Open
	In the File name: field
	You may wish to leave the name as it is or type in a new name.

DO NOT change the Save as type: it must remain as shown - Mail(*.eml)

To save multiple Email from your Inbox, see 124

122 Outlook Express - Save Copy of Email in your Sent Folder

Open OE

	Select your Sent Items
	Open the Email you wish to save
	Left click on File
	Select Save As...

Follow the steps as shown in 120

To save multiple Email from your Sent Items, see 124

124 Outlook Express - Save Many Emails On a Disk/Mass Storage The Quick Way

	Open Outlook Express
	Open Windows Explorer
	Right click on the Task Bar and select Tile Windows Vertically
	When OE window opens
	Select the folder (Inbox, Sent Items, etc) with the Email you wish to save
	When Windows Explorer opens
	Select the Disk/Mass Storage location
	Select the Email you wish to save
	Drag and Drop your selection to the Disk/Mass Storage.

You may use one of your Shift keys to Move the files out of OE to your Disk/Mass Storage

Reverse this procedure to Drag and Drop .eml files from your Disk/Mass Storage to a new computer running M$ OE or Windows Live Mail.

127 Outlook Express - Send an Email

Before you send an Email using OE

	You must have a Virus checker
	Set up your Account with your ISP settings for Email Address and PSW.

Rogers also have Help, however, it is more centered around Rogers Yahoo web mail. Execulink Help is also incomplete as far as I'm concerned. It's no wonder why these providers have so many customer complaints. Hopefully, your ISP will supply you with enough info when you sign for their services.

Set up Outlook Express (See 69)

Once you have set up your account, you will find Send an Email is well covered on the Internet and with the Help in OE. Feel free to use them.

Click on this icon for Help from M$

159 View Double Extensions

An extra (false) extension is a trick virus writers use to fool people into opening a file. With extensions turned off if someone sends you a file named BAD.TXT.VBS you will only see BAD.TXT. If you've forgotten extensions are actually turned off you might think this is a text file and open it. Instead, this is really an executable Visual Basic Script file and could do serious damage. You should always have viewing extensions turned on.

	Always set your file browser to display the full file name
	Left click on
	Left click on
	To see all the Control Panel icon options, you will have to Switch to Classic View
	Double left click on the icon

When the Folder Options window opens

	Select the View tab
	Under Hidden files and folders
	Set Show hidden files and folders
	If present, remove the check mark from Hide extensions for known file types.
	If present, remove the check mark from Hide protected operating system files.

When the Warning window opens

Left click on

What we covered here is only about one half of the solution. For a more thorough safety measure, there are fixes available for your Registry. Before working with the Registry, it is recommended to use one of your search engines to find out everything you possibly can about editing the Registry and how to Restore your computer in case you create a Registry error preventing you from using your computer.

Security and Filename Extensions has more detail and pointers to help protect your system from a virus.

The old saying of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" doesn't mean a thing should you get hit with a virus you could have prevented with a few minutes of computer tricks.

180 Windows Explorer - Make all Folders Show Details/Thumbnails Automatically

Through all my searching, the only way to do this is with Vista OS.

	Open Windows Explorer
	Select any folder with graphics
	Left click on View
	Select Large Icons or Extra Large Icons
	Left click on Tools
	Select Folder Options...

Vista

When the Folder Options Window opens

	Select the View tab
	Left click Apply to Folders

Note: - There are slight differences in the wording under Folder views i.e this folder to all folders of this type and Apply to Folders

Your graphics will now appear as Large or Extra Large Icons. All other files will open with Details View.

224 Email - Services Available

Outlook Express suffers from all of the hacks and viruses feeding on the world’s most popular Web browser. There are more secure email applications available and with more user friendly enhancements. M$ recognizes this problem and are constantly downloading security updates to our computers. We can't ignore these updates without jeopardizing our protection from the hackers out there determined to wipe us out.

M$ latest and greatest, most secure, is Windows Live. It can be downloaded free, on computers using XP SP2 or later, or Windows Vista (Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is not supported.)

There are many excellent alternatives to M$ Email and they can be found at these web site. Some have features M$ have yet to discover or have on hand but holding for later announcement. It's called "planned obsolescence".

Click on these icons for access to many other excellent, and all free, Email programs.

Tips of the Month

Click on the icon for top 10 tips for sending e-mail while traveling. It is written for Hotmail, however, if you have your own ISP address and PSW with you, you can still connect to use the internet and receive/send email. Remember, if you are using someone else's PC, clear all traces of your activity and be sure to Sign Out to prevent the next user from using your PSW.

To find out what the weather is going to be for the next few days, click on the icon to open the Google Search Engine and type in weather area/zip code

FLASH - We have all received Email similar to the one below. It happens when an Email address becomes obsolete, usually due to the intended receiver changing their ISP.

The above Email appeared on my system a few days ago. My first suspicion to it possibly being SPAM was the word [Bulk] in the Subject column. Rather than open it, I checked its Properties, Details and Message Source. When the Message Source window opened, I was able to spot 3 other clues in the message itself. First it stated I had sent the Email at 2 a.m. when my computer would have been off for more than 2 hours. The most convincing were the words, VIAGRA and UNSUBSCRIBE. There could have been other clues but, I didn't want to take a chance of the message to completely open. It was Deleted posthaste

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Ingersoll Senior Citizens Revised: June 08, 2008 .

Ingersoll Senior Citizens
Revised: June 08, 2008 .