For many users entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem, the default choice for email management on Windows 11 is the pre-installed Outlook app. Yet, a growing segment of privacy-conscious professionals and everyday users are turning away from Outlook in favor of alternatives like Proton Mail—a...
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Microsoft's decision to discontinue the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 11 has led to significant disruptions for users, particularly those relying on Outlook and Hotmail accounts. As of December 31, 2024, these native applications ceased to function effectively, prompting a mandatory...
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When Typing an Email Turns Your CPU into a Furnace: Unpacking the Latest Outlook Bug
Picture this: you’re drafting a simple email in the classic Outlook for Microsoft 365, and suddenly your computer sounds like a jet engine taking off. Your CPU usage spikes wildly, soaring to 30-50% utilization...
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When Classic Outlook Turns Into a CPU Monster: Understanding the Unexpected Resource Hog
Microsoft Outlook has been a staple in the digital communication arsenal for decades, quietly powering emails, calendars, and collaboration in homes and enterprises worldwide. Yet recently, users of the...
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Microsoft is steadily pruning its Windows app lineup, and the latest round of deprecations in Windows 11 has left many longtime users looking for alternatives. While some removals, like the retirement of Internet Explorer, are warmly welcomed, other apps had loyal followings that now face an...
In a developing story that has caught the attention of Windows users and IT professionals alike, thousands of reports are flooding in regarding an Outlook outage. According to a recent FOX 5 New York report, over 26,000 outage alerts have been recorded, affecting not only Outlook but several...
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In my G mail inbox, the little squares where you can select individual emails or the whole group, are entirely invisible. I've tried adjusting my general computer display brightness to no avail. I suspect that it's something inherent to G mail since my other email clients behave normally (AOL...
I am finally looking for a replacement for the ancient Windows Live Mail program and I am completely amazed that apparently email client programs have gotten so much WORSE in the last decade.
The first replacement that I tried was the nonsense that Windows includes in Win 10 as the so-called...
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Hello Windows Forum members,
I have a gmail settings dilemma with my windows 7 PC....I am having problems selecting (to keep my selected pop3 options...selected)google gm,ail pop3 server settings in gmail online~~when i choose to enable all gmail pop3 settings in gmail settings,the pop3...
I cannot open PDF files in Foxit Reader because of apparently a problem with file ODBC32.dll in the Windows System folder, error 0xc000012f. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the program but the same result. I tried installing Adobe Acrobat Reader but it will not install. I thought I could...
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I have Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail. How can I make them appear the same text size. For some reason, the only way I can adjust the size is to View at top of screen and make changes, before I had that option at the bottom of the screen but no longer. Did updates do away with that?
The disk C was formatted. By means of R-Studio pulled out from it the ntuser.dat and Outlook.pst files. Through regedit I exported from ntuser.dat all branch [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem] to the .reg the file. I placed in the...
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Hi
I'm not able to receive mail using the mail app in Windows 10.
I can send, but messages sent to my Gmail account, (my Windows account) don't show up in Windows Mail.
When I open Thunderbird they are all there.
I thought that it may be deleting the mail because it gets sent to Thunderbird...
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I’ll pass on something I learned that may save others a lot of diagnostic time. After months of wrestling with Outlook crashes, I finally gave up on it and switched to Thunderbird. I then noticed problems with incoming messages that were created in Outlook by others. Embedded graphics and...
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I need to transfer all my emails from entourge 2008 that runs in mac book pro over to windows outlook 2010. I have a huge collection of important mails that I can't afford to loose at any cost, arranged in many folders.
So how can this migration of entourage 2008 to outlook 2010 be done without...
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When I live steam video in Windows 8/Chrome, using Adobe Flash, the audio portion is silenced each time I receive an audio prompt from my system. When I say "audio prompt" I mean a beep that I believe provides some sort of notification. The video continues, but all sound disappears for a few...
Currently running Win XP using Outlook Express, will install Windows 7 on new partition, how do I move all my personal folders from OE to Windows Live mail ??