Are you having trouble
receiving email using Outlook Express on dial-up—Does
the send/receive process timeout or freeze on a certain
message?
If you experience trouble, simply follow
these instructions:
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Open your Outlook
Express
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Left click on “Tools”
located at the top of your Outlook Express Window
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In the “Tools”
drop down menu, left click on “Message Rules”
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Another menu will
open, click on “Mail…”
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In menu “1) Select
the Conditions for your rule:” please find “Where
the message size is more then size” (Requires you
to scroll down in menu)
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Left click on the
small empty box next to “Where the message size
is more then size” (this will place a check mark
in the box).
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In menu “2) Select
the Auctions for your rule:” please find “Delete
it from server” (Requires you to scroll down menu)
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Left click on the
small empty box next to “Delete it from server”
(this will place a check mark in the box).
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In menu “3) Rule
Description (click on an underlines value to edit it)”
left click the size link
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This will bring up
a new window. In the box located in this window type
“1000” (without quotation marks).
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Left click “OK”
on this window
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In menu “4) Name
of the rule:” please type in “Delete Large
Emails” (without quotation marks).
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Left click on the
button that says “OK”
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A new window will
open. Please left click on the button that says “Apply
Now…”
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Another window will
open. Again left click on the button that says “Apply
Now”
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Left click on the
button that says “OK” on the new window
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Then left click on
the button that says “Close”
Then left click on the button that says
“OK”
This process will cause all messages that are 1MB in size
to automatically be deleted from the server preventing
any messages from getting stuck or caught up while downloading
them.
Useful
Keyboard Shortcuts
Show Desktop -
Hold the windows key (usually found between the ctrl and
alt keys, older keyboards may not have this key) and hit
the D key. This will hide all windows and show your desktop.
This is very useful if you have lots of shortcuts on your
desktop.
Switch windows
- Hold the alt key, and then tap the tab key. As long
as you hold the alt key, a small window will appear in
the middle of your screen. You can continue to hit the
tab key to choose which window you want to switch to.
When you release the alt key, you will switch to the window
that is selected. Also, you can hold alt and press tab,
then release alt quickly, this will switch to the last
used window. Once you get used to this keyboard shortcut,
it will probably be one of your most often used shortcuts.
Windows Explorer
- Hold the windows key and then hit E. This will launch
Windows Explorer, where you can view the contents of your
disk drives.
Address Bar - In
both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, if you hold
the alt key and then hit D, it will cause your cursor
to jump to the Address Bar and highlight the current address.
What makes this convenient is that you can then simply
type over the address. For example, if I have http://www.google.com
in my address bar, I can hit alt+D and then immediately
type www.ebay.com without having to first remove the contents
of the address bar.
Close the current
window - Hold the alt key and then tap the F4 key.
This will close the current window that you have open.
Errors
while checking your e-mail—
Nathan Anderson, Help Desk Technician
When checking your e-mail, if you receive an error message
stating that the connection has timed out or it locks
up while downloading your messages you can check to see
if you have any e-mail messages larger than 1MB that could
be causing the problem. Simply visit this Web site and
click on the link on the left hand side that says Check
Your E-mail .Enter your 
user
name and password and it will show you all your e-mail
messages Select all e-mail's you wish to delete and then
empty the recycle bin. Wait for a period of 30 min and
try and check your mail again.
