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
Top list of Usenet newsgroups sorted by popularity
This is a list of popular newsgroups sorted by popularity (number of articles). The popularity indicates on which topic people post the most articles. You may find this list useful for your own needs when searching for newsgroups.
How to make Windows Live Mail look and feel like Outlook Express
If you switched from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail you may have used a set of features you liked but just don't seem to be there anymore. While Windows Live Mail does bring improvements in some areas, some other "improvements" are arguable. Fortunately, some features are only hidden and some require a different approach - this article lists all the tricks and features I've discovered so far (the article will be updated from time to time).
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.
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.
Setting up Gmail in Outlook Express
Gmail is not only about large Inbox. One of the benefits of using Gmail is also the ability to easily download emails to your email client such as Outlook Express. Here is how to do it.