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

The most important tip ever for fighting spam

It may sound too easy but - do not buy anything advertised through spam email! You would be surprised that the only reason spam exists is that some people actually buy stuff from them.

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.

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).

How to completely clean up wasted space in Outlook Express mail folders?

Did you know that Outlook Express stores your mails even after you delete them (even if they are gone from the Deleted Items folder)?