Question: I keep trying to defragment my hard drive and as yet have not been able to do so. I get a box coming up saying “defrag in operation” and the little box with tiny bricks falling into the box, but it never leaves zero per cent. I have tried to setting my screen saver […]
Question: How do I set up Outlook Express to send a message when I’m out of the office? —Jack B. Answer: That’s called an e-mail auto-responder (or auto-reply), and it’s sort of the e-mail equivalent of an answering machine. People tend to expect immediate responses to e-mail these days, and when they don’t get them […]
Get the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007. Question: How do I set-up an auto-responder in Outlook 2000? –Jackie P. Answer: Setting up an auto-responder in Outlook 2000 is pretty straightforward. (Here are instructions for Outlook Express, and here if you have Outlook 2002). One note of caution before you start: You’ll need to leave […]
Question: How do I use my e-mail program to filter out unwanted messages? Answer: I get asked this kind of question a lot. Spam, the internet equivalent of junk mail, is a real headache for a lot of people, Learn to defeat spam. Luckily there are built-in features in many e-mail programs to help you […]
Spam is a modern day plague. Learn how to filter spam out of your in-box, and how to tell the difference between real email and spam Question: I get so tired of those unsolicited ads showing up in my e-mail. What I can do to make them go away? — L.K. Answer: E-mail is the […]
