Archive for the ‘e-mail’ Category


How to Save Favorites & Mail

Dear Computer Lady, I have a newer HP computer about 2 years old. It has become slow at startup and lots of virus scan popups when its running. I think I should just reformat and start over but save my favorits and saved emails before I reformat to start clean. I can save documents on [...]

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How To Set Up Signature in Live Mail

Dear Computer Lady, Your column continues to help so many of us. Thank you. How do I automatically have my contact information added to outbound emails under Windows (7) Live Mail? Charlie

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How To Backup Outlook Express Emails

Dear Computer Lady, Two years ago, my pc crashed and I lost all the email folders and the files in each of the many folders. I was devasted. Now I have a 2 year old dell which i like and I have a lot of outlook express folders with files within each one. I would [...]

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Outlook Express to Outlook

Dear Computer Lady, Is there a way to get Outlook Express dbx files that I had in XP to work now that I have Outlook, which does not open dbx files, in Windows 7? Thanks for all your tips in your newsletters. You have saved me so many times while learning to use my computer. [...]

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Drafts folder

Hola Elizabeth, I noticed that drafts in my Hotmail weren’t being added. Then, this morning, Drafts was empty after I had just sent two emails there. Now it won’t make drafts at all. Any suggestions? Thanks, Sara

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Windows Live Mail Menu Bar

Dear Computer Lady, I am 81 years old and I enjoy all the info you give us. Would appreciate if you would answer one question for me. I have windows 7 and use Windows Live Mail. I do not have the word “tools” in my menu bar. Can you please tell me how to get [...]

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Removing Hotmail Folders

Dear Computer Lady, How to remove a “folder” from the Hotmail site? To the left of the hotmail site I can add new folders, but nowhere allows me to remove old folders. Can you help me with this? Thank You, Constance

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Unblocking Email Pictures

Dear Computer Lady, Everyone of my e-mails comes through with a yellow line above the message portion. I have to remove in order to see everything on it. How can I get rid of this? I am using Windows Mail. We have Windows Vista on our computer. My computer geek says to go to message [...]

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Emailing Photos with Gmail

Dear Computer Lady, Love your site and woud love your newsletter. Question: How do I make gmail my default mail server in irfranview. I do not use outlook express. Thanks for your time, Flo

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Box with red X

Dear Elizabeth, What does it mean when I receive an e-mail which is supposed to include a photo but where the photo is supposed to be there is a large blank box with a small red “x” in the uppoer corner? Love your Newsletter and have learned much from reading it. Sure helps this tired [...]

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