Tag: outlook
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Outlook: Recall a sent message
Here’s the scenario: You’ve written an email, hit send, and then realized that it shouldn’t have been sent after all, for whatever reason. It may be rude, embarrassing or contain classified information. One way to go, is to issue a recall for the email in question. Here’s how: In Outlook, go to Sent Items Mark…
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Outlook 2007: "Cannot open the Outlook window"
I recently had a user drop by and ask me about an odd error he was seeing when starting Microsoft Outlook. The error looked like this: Looking about on the internet, I couldn’t find a lot of help, and enlisted the assistance of a friend of mine. After some trial and error, we…
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Outlook "disappears" when minimized
A user called me up, telling me that whenever she’d minimize Outlook, it would shut down in stead of minimizing. Accessing her computer remotely, I easily saw that Outlook wasn’t closed, it was minimized to tray. To avoid this problem reappearing, I did the following: I located and right clicked the Outlook icon…
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Outlook runs slowly
I was contacted by a user telling me that Outlook was running slowly on his computer, especially when switching between Mail and Contacts, etc. He also reported that when he had Outlook open, he didn’t get the speed he was supposed to while surfing the web. The problem was simply that Outlook was set…
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Why Webmail rocks my world
I’ve been using email since 1998, and from the get-go I’ve been using various webmail-clients, in addition to locally installed clients such as Outlook Express (urgh), Outlook (Yum-yum), Lotus Notes (Oh-so-bloated) and Thunderbird (Weighed, measured and found wanting). My first email address was a hotmail one, and although that specific incarnation of my online presence…