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New Purchase of Office?

I’m not sure if you’re having trouble activating a new purchase, or if there is a problem that has just come up. If it is a new purchase of Microsoft Office, then you need to be sure it is licensed for Outlook to operate properly.

Microsoft Office Licensing

When you first start Microsoft Office after installation, you will be asked to enter your Product Key if you haven’t already. If you choose not to enter the Product Key, you will be able to run Office 25 times as a ‘grace period’ before you must enter it. If you don’t it goes into Reduced Functionality Mode and behaves as read only and functionality is reduced. When you finally enter the Product Key, everything is restored.

Activate Outlook Manually

If you want, after you’ve installed Office, you can activate Outlook manually. Open Outlook. In the Help section, click “Activate Product”. The activation wizard will come up and walk you through the process.

Setting Up Outlook

Now that you have Outlook on your desktop, you will need to set up your email account. You will also need to gather some information such as the name of your email service, the type of email you are using (POP3, HTTP or IMAP), the kind of outgoing server (usually SMTP).

1. Start Outlook.
2. Go to the Tools menu. Click Accounts. The Internet Connection Wizard should start automatically. If it doesn’t, then go to Add and click Mail.
3. You will be prompted to enter the information you have gathered including your user name, your email address, the type of email you use, etc.
4. Try sending an email!

Outlook Troubleshooter

If you are still having trouble with your email, Outlook comes with a program that will help you pinpoint where the trouble is located.

1. Go to Tools, then click on Options and then Maintenance.
2. Check the first box labeled “Mail”. The operating system will create a text log file. When you send an email, it will show the problem.
3. You can see the messages if you go to C:\Documents & Settings\ <your name>\Applications Data\Identities\ {the Global Unique Identifier}\Microsoft Outlook Express
4. Click on smpt.log to diagnose your particular problem.

Most likely, your Outlook troubles will be cured with one of these simple solutions. Outlook is very reliable and complaints against the system are few.

Set up E-mail in Outlook Express

It’s always fun to get a new computer, but also a bit of work. Not only do you have to install all of your favorite programs, set up Internet Access, and transfer data files, you also have to set up e-mail accounts. Outlook Express is fairly simple as far as this goes, but you will need to know all of the specific account settings. These settings are almost always available from your ISP’s Web site. For example, if you have a Comcast account, head over to the Comcast support Web site and search for help setting up e-mail access. Whichever ISP it is will have different incoming and outgoing servers and settings. You’ll also use your existing account name/e-mail address and password as part of the configuration.  

Copying Outlook Email Settings

In your case, you already have a PC with these settings, so you can either look at your existing settings and replicate them in your new computer or you can export and import them. To look at your existing settings, go to Tools>Accounts and find the e-mail account in the list. Right-click it and choose Properties. All the information you’ll need is contained within the various tabs. On your laptop, go to Tools >Accounts and click Add. Follow the prompts and add the appropriate information. Once finished, go back into the newly created account, click Properties, and compare each tab to be sure you didn’t miss anything. Make changes as needed.

Exporting Outlook Express Settings

Outlook Express has an export feature that you can use to export your settings. On your PC, go to Tools> Accounts and find your e-mail account in the list. Click Export and follow the prompts. Save your export to disc or a USB stick.

Now, insert the disc or stick into your laptop and go into Outlook Express. Go to Tools>Accounts and click Import. Follow the prompts to import the settings from your disc or stick.

Outlook Express isn’t Available

If you recently purchased the laptop, you may find that it doesn’t have Outlook Express on it. Instead, Microsoft Mail or Microsoft Windows Live Mail might be installed instead. That’s because Outlook Express has been replaced. Not to worry, both Microsoft Mail and Windows Live Mail are quite similar with added enhancements. The processes are basically the same.

Considerations when Two Computers have Access to the Same E-mail Account                         

Once you have your laptop set up to receive e-mail, you may want to consider how you’ll be using it. Will you still use your desktop PC? Is the desktop PC the main one and the laptop used only on mobile occasions? Do you want ALL e-mail to be downloaded to the PC, even if you’ve opened it on the laptop? If so, when setting up the laptop account, go back into the account Properties box and click the Advanced tab. Under Delivery, place a check mark in the box that says, “Leave a copy of message on server.” This means that when the laptop downloads a message, a copy remains on the server for your PC to retrieve later.

Yahoo Mail Goes POP

Now that many web-based e-mail services have added POP3 functionality, you can set up your e-mail client to send and receive e-mails from these accounts. This is terrific because you no longer have to navigate to a web page in order to retrieve your messages. In addition, you can store, manage, and work with your messages offline.

Setting Up Outlook Express for Sending and Receiving Yahoo Mail Plus

It sounds as if you have already set up Outlook Express to retrieve Yahoo e-mail but something isn’t quite right. Let’s first review the basics of setting up the account and then move on to your sending problems.

First, open Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu and choose Accounts. Now, find the Mail tab and select Add. Type your name as well as your Yahoo e-mail address in the appropriate fields. Click Next and then select “POP3″ in the “My incoming mail is” field.

Incoming Mail: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com

Outgoing Mail: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com

In the Account Name field, enter the first part of your yahoo e-mail address, making sure to omit the @yahoo.com part. Next, type in your Yahoo password in the password field. Make sure the “log on using secure” box is clear. Click Finish.

Fine-Tuning E-mail Setup

Even though it appears that the task is finished, you’re not quite done yet. Go back to Tools>Accounts and find your Yahoo Mail account that you just created. Now right-click it and select Properties. Select the Servers tab and find the Outgoing Mail section and check the box for “my server requires authentication.” Now, under the Advanced tab, make sure the following port information is set (if not, change to the appropriate settings):

Outgoing Mail Server - “This server requires a secure connection” should be marked and the Outgoing Mail’s port setting should be set to 465.

Incoming Mail Server - “This server requires a secure connection” should be marked and the Incoming Mail’s port setting should be set to 995.

Click the “Log on using” option and enter your Yahoo user name and password.

Troubleshooting Yahoo Mail Send Errors

Now that you’ve double checked to be sure that you have the outgoing mail settings set for authentication, you may find that your problems are solved. However, there’s one more common problem with sending Yahoo mail from Outlook Express and that’s related to a built-in security measure. Yahoo requires that before sending e-mail messages, you must first check your messages. Some versions of Microsoft e-mail clients don’t fully support this which means you will need to use your existing ISP outgoing e-mail server for sending your Yahoo messages.

If you already have an ISP e-mail account set up in Outlook Express, you can check the Properties settings for outgoing mail in your existing account and copy them into your Yahoo account settings. If not, contact your ISP for outgoing mail server settings.

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Features

• Recovers lost passwords from Outlook and PST folders.
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• Repairs damaged PST files - even those larger than 2 GB.
• Supports all versions of Outlook all the way back to Outlook 97.

Benefits

Outlook PST files often go bad and when they do, they take with them valuable data. In addition to data loss such as lost emails, messages, calendar entries, contacts, notes, and journal items Outlook passwords are often forgotten or otherwise must be recovered. For example, if an employee suddenly leaves the company without notice, the messages in his e-mail need to be recovered so that another employee can take care of customer inquiries and other issues. With the Outlook PST repair tool, PST files can easily be repaired and passwords recovered. Don’t lose your Outlook data for good or let emails go unanswered because of a lost password; instead, use this easy tool to recovery Outlook PST files once and for all.

How it Works                 

The Outlook PST repair tool is surprisingly simple. It browses the system for corrupt PST files, scans any found damaged PST files, extracts the data, and saves a fresh PST file in a new location. All of this takes place automatically so the user doesn’t need to do much more than click the “start” button.

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Why Address Hiding is Necessary

As spammers get more advanced, users need to stay one step ahead of them. Spam bots are basically machines that are set to find and gather email addresses on the web. They do this by looking in web groups that you may have joined for your school or organization, from social sites such as greeting cards that someone may send you where your email is then saved and sold and from simply guessing or looking for popular email address patterns.

It was easier to hide your address on the web in the past. You could simply post your address as katATkmailDOTnet. The humans reading that would convert it to kat@kmail.net. Spambots are now set to look for these patterns and convert them to conventional email addresses that are then added to the spam list. Mac users don’t get as many viruses and spam as people who use PCs, but they are most at risk when a PC user has the Mac user’s address in their book. When the PC user gets infected, the Mac users address is taken.

Types of Address Hiding Services

There are several good types of address hiding services that are constantly evolving to adapt to new technologies:

Hidden E-mail Addresses

1. One of the most popular methods is to hide the actual email address by encrypting it in a color picture like those verification boxes you see on some blogs and websites. Spambots can’t read the different colors and fonts and at this point don’t recognize it as a valid email address. One company who has a free address hiding service of this type is called MailPic: http://www.hbtronix.de/mailpic.php?l=en

E-mail Encryption Services

1. There are several email address encryption services that convert your email address to a string of numbers and characters using HTML character entities. Two to try are Enkoder or SafeEmail.org.

Disposable E-mail Addresses

1. Another popular way to get around serial spammers is to use ‘disposable’ email addresses for a limited amount of time and then switch to a new address. When you sign up for a disposable email service, as you navigate the web, you use a new email address such as kat@trashmail.net. The service automatically forwards these emails to your actual email address. In this way, your actual email address is protected by the disposable email company. You can set this disposable email to work for a certain number of emails - anywhere from 10 to 100,000 or for a certain time period. After the disposable email has expired, you can set up another one for free. Try the service at TrashMail and MailMoat.

Anti-Spam Prevention

Spam continues to be a problem despite advances in antispam software. Using a good antispam program along with one or more of these solutions should drastically cut down on the amount of unwanted and even dangerous email.

Both TalkTalk and Orange are UK based broadband and dial up providers, and TalkTalk also supplies landlines. The TalkTalk initial “free broadband’ promotion sparked a price war with UK providers and they were initially flooded with calls and subsequently developed service-related complaints. Since their 2006 promotion, the service seems to have evened out and complaints have lessened, although users sometimes complain of a ‘bottleneck’ at the servers because they feel that the service is over subscribed. They have recently been partnered with AOL which may or may not have improved performance - many forums are waiting to see if there are changes.TalkTalk and Orange services have substantial websites that can guide you through most of the problems you might encounter.

You haven’t said if you are using TalkTalk for your email service. If you used your old internet service provider (ISP) - Orange in this case - for your email, you may be receiving your emails but are not able to send them using the new account. Most ISPs will let you receive from a different email company but not send. If you are able to access the Internet, then you have set up your broadband correctly. Once you have set up your broadband and know it is running, the best way to solve your email problems is to check the settings in your connection program. On your computer, go to Control Panel and select Internet Options. Click on Connections and check that TalkTalk Broadband/Speedtouch is set to default. If it isn’t, then click on TalkTalk and click on Default. You then need to click on the ‘Always dial my default connection’. Check Apply and then click Ok.

You should also check your incoming and outgoing server settings to be sure that they have been changed to match the Talk Talk mail server settings.

One of the biggest complaints with TalkTalk has been their real-time tech support. Because they have so many subscribers, it often takes a long time for answers to your problems. If this doesn’t solve your email problem, please let us know with some more specifics - are you getting any error messages? Can you send or receive emails? What email address are you using? We hope this helps.