Tag: e-mail
Seeing Bcc recipients on e-mails you’ve sent
When you’ve added a group of people to your email’s Bcc line, how can you remember all the recipients? Here’s how…
Posted: February 28th, 2011 under Windows XP.
Tags: bcc, blind carbon copy, details pane, e-mail, outlook express, seeing bcc addresses, sent e-mail
Comments: 3
Trying to e-mail a photo brings up the wrong e-mail program
Q: I want to e-mail a photo in Windows XP. When I right-click the photo, choose Send To, and choose Mail Recipient, Outlook appears instead of Outlook Express. How can I make Outlook Express appear, instead, so I can mail my photo? A: Both Outlook Express and its pricier cousin, Microsoft Outlook, can send e-mail. […]
Posted: January 17th, 2011 under Internet, Windows XP.
Tags: Choose a Default E-mail Program, default program, e-mail, outlook, outlook express, send to, Set Program Access and Defaults
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The missing Contacts list in Outlook Express
Q: The Contacts area is missing from Outlook Express. The Contacts list is so helpful when composing my emails; I just click the address in the Contacts folder, and it appears in the e-mail’s “To” line. Help! A: Many Windows programs let you customize their layout, showing only the portions you find useful and hiding […]
Posted: March 5th, 2010 under Windows XP.
Tags: contacts, e-mail, missing contacts list, outlook express, windows layout properties
Comments: 8
Internet Explorer won’t let me send pages or links by e-mail!
Q: On Internet Explorer 8’s Page menu, the “Send Page by E-mail” and “Send Link by E-mail” options are both “grayed out,” and I can’t choose them. I normally log onto a Web site to send and receive my e-mail. A: Windows 7 lacks an e-mail program, which causes more than a few problems. Microsoft […]
Posted: March 1st, 2010 under Email, Free software, Internet.
Tags: e-mail, grayed out, greyed out, Internet Explorer 8, Send Link by E-mail, Send Page by E-mail, web-based e-mail
Comments: 3
Opening e-mailed attachments that refuse to open
Q: I find your Windows For Dummies book very helpful, but it doesn’t show me how to open an e-mailed attachment that gives me this error message when I try to open it: This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Set Associations control panel. […]
Posted: August 24th, 2009 under Error message, Windows Vista.
Tags: attachments, Create an association in the Set Associations control panel, e-mail, error, Excel viewer, powerpoint viewer, This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this action, word viewer
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