Outlook Express Tips

Use Outlook Express quickly and securely.

These free power tips that will tell you how to:

• Avoid spam email
• Avoid viruses
• Use email more effectively
• Browse newsgroups faster and easier
• Find free MP3, videos, pictures, software and e-books on newsgroups using Outlook Express

Selected Articles

Usenet newsgroups hierarchy

By understanding how the hierarchies are structured you can significantly speed up a search of the topic of your interest.

Little-Known Anti-Spam Tips

Spammers use some sneaky and dirty techniques to validate your email address. Do you need spam blocker or spam filter software or is there another way you can protect yourself against these tricks?

How to make Outlook Express remember the position of Send/Receive window?

Sometimes it may happen that the Send/Receive window moves (for example if you change desktop resolution) and it always appears non-centered or somewhere else. You can also move it if you don't like default position (centered).

How to use a free Yahoo Mail in Outlook Express (via POP3 or SMTP)

Yahoo! charges for their email POP3 service but there is also a way to use their free-mail account in Outlook Express without paying for the POP3 service. Here is how.

What is yEnc?

If you encountered yEnc messages on the newsgroups you may have been disappointed because Outlook Express has no yEnc decoder. This article explains how to decode yEnc in Outlook Express and why is it so popular.