Outlook & Outlook Express Help Pages

Within our Outlook and Outlook Express help page we have tried to cover everything to do with email, but for any other questions please contact us via our Forum page.

Email security
sadly email is the number one way to get a virus today, not only that but other security risks such as spyware can also be a problem. Find out more about how to use Outlook safely and securely.

Stopping junk mail
How to stop junk mail everyone knows about this nuisance, what a pain it can be, luckily Outlook has a number of functions that enable you to stop the vast majority of it, such as blocking domains and not just single email addresses.



Using hotmail email through outlook
How to use HTTP email accounts such as Hotmail with Outlook , using Outlook for HTTP email accounts has some big advantages over using email directly on the web, it stores all of your email locally on your computer so it’s easier to look at them , it’s also far easier to integrate any emails or addresses to other email accounts in Outlook, read our guide to find out more.

Which email software should we use?
Which is the best email software? We have a number of decent packages on the market, and many of them are free, but which one is right for you? Find out the difference between them including the differences between Outlook express and full blown Outlook with our Outlook & Outlook express help articles.

There's much more to email backups than simply backing up email, see our guides for other parts such as contacts and user accounts

Outlook express help backing up
It only takes a short while to amass a large amount of emails, many of us have emails from years back. Emails from family, friends or business all have one thing in common, usually once they are lost, they really are lost, this is where a good email backup comes in. Backing up emails can be easy and once its in place only takes a few minutes. Backing up email with Outlook.

Email user account backup
How to make a backup of your email accounts , once this is done a backup of your account will store the username, plus server details, if you ever have to setup your email accounts again, this has never been so easy.

Backup email addresses / contacts
Lastly we have contacts, how many do you have in your list? I consider myself to be an average user and over the course of 2 years I have around 300, and of those maybe 60-70 that I user frequently.

If I lost all of these, the thought of having to contact each person via phone to get an email address is not something I’d have the time to do, so if your like me, make a backup of your email addresses it’s very quick and easy.

As you can see there is a fair list of outlook express help topics that apply to most people, there are even more topics than this such as using stationery or rules, which I’ll include at a later stage.

All of the topics included are what you could call critical tasks, you really have to just look at each one and conclude if you could live with losing your emails, addresses etc .

One other thing to note, if you are going to backup any data, please make sure you store any data that has been backed up onto a different backup drive or medium. Otherwise having a backup on the same drive will just be taking up space.

If ever the hard drive fails you’ll still lose everything.

If you’d like more info on backup devices etc , checkout our backup pages where we cover all aspects of backing up from using Windows backup to advising on various backup storage mediums.

Microsoft Outlook backup guide
How about a free backup tool that can automatically backup Outlook personal folders, checkout Outlook PST backup it's free, easy to use and once set backups are a synch.

OST to PST conversion
If a PST or Outlook personal folder has become corrupt and beyond repair, maybe all is not lost, if offline access was in place find out how to convert the offline folder into a personal folder.

PST password protect your Outlook personal folders
If you want some privacyor protection for your emails read more on adding password protection to an Outlook personal folder or PST.

Outlook personal folder / PST repair & recovery
Find out how to repair an Outlook personal folder using Microsoft's PST repair tool.

Outlook personal folder / PST password recovery
If you've forgotten the password to your Outlook personal folder find out how we can still gain access.

Outlook cannot add contacts as address book
If the option to show folder as an Outlook address book is greyed find out how to resolve this.

Outlook contacts problem
Find out how to add outlook contacts as an address books and why to change the order of address books.

Outlook hanging
What are the most common causes of Outlook hanging either in the program itself or upon loading?

Outlook out of office how to use and known problems
Outlook out of office is a great little feature to use when not around, find out how to use and how to troubleshoot when it can't be switched off.

Outlook cannot open excel attachments
This issue is normally accompanied by the message Can't open this item. Can't create file permission denied

Outlook express help with error codes
Many Outlook express error codes are usually a simple fix, but the error codes can over complicate things, checkout our simplified error codes with this Outlook express help guide.

Cannot open email attachments
Receiving email attachments and not being able to open them is a real pain especially if it's urgent or it's taken a long time to download, what can be done about this, what options do we have ..

For general SMTP error codes and there meanings

Problems using Hotmail with Outlook Express ?
Outlook Express has been around for ages, but recently things have changed, find out why Hotmail no longer works through Outlook Express and how this can be resolved.

Sending multiple emails
It should be easy, but find out why most ISP's would not want you to do this, and how to do it properly ..

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