Many of you may in the past have been using your Outlook Express account to send and/or receive email from your hotmail account, but recently may have been having problems or errors when you try to do so.
You may have received this error;
Unknown Error
When you click Details on this error you would have received the following details;
HTTPMAIL: 10:09:18 [rx]
HTTP/1.1 402 Access to Hotmail via Outlook & Outlook Express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/hotmailplus/overview
Although if you are running a computer with Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 you may have recieved these errors;
Could not connect to Hotmail as username@hotmail.com
Hotmail no longer allows email access via Outlook Express for free Hotmail/MSN accounts
The reason you will get either of these two errors when you try to access hotmail from your Outlook Express account is simply as the last error says, you can no longer access hotmail from your Outlook account using a free Hotmail account.
If you want an easy fix to this problem you can just get a paid hotmail account, or if you don’t want to do that you can do the follow to solve your problem.
Outlook Express
To use any web based email service with your Outlook Express you need to install Windows Live Mail on your computer. Windows Live Mail is a Microsoft program that lets you access, read, and compose e-mail messages even when you are not connected to the Internet. Whenever you do access the internet it automatically updates your email from any of the popular web based email accounts including hotmail.
To find out more about Windows Live Mail and to install it click here.
Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
To access hotmail from these accounts you have to get a Windows Live Hotmail account, to find out more about these click here.
If there is one thing I get really frustrated over on my computer is when my windows media player won’t play a video because of some error. This happened to me the other day when I got a C00D119A error, so today I thought I’d talk about what this annoying error is and how to resolve it.
You will get a C00D119A error when a required codec is not installed on your computer, a codec is software that the Player uses to decompress a file before playing it. In most cases your media player will automatically download the codec so that all clips can be played, but occasionally it does not.
The reason your computer would not automatically download the codec is that the security levels on your machine are so high that it just cannot download it. So to fix this problem you must adjust your internet security settings to allow codecs to be downloaded. To do this follow these steps or watch this clip;
Click on your Control Panel
Click Internet Options
Click the Security tab
In the Security level for this zone area, click medium Level
For many people there is nothing more frustrating than getting errors in their Outlook/Outlook Express. I have talked to people who have taken an hour to do a simple 2 minute email just because they kept receiving Outlook errors.
Generally Outlook errors are fairly simple things to fix so I will begin over the next few weeks to write some posts that will assist you if you are having trouble with Outlook errors. Today I will talk about a simple fix you can do if you ever receive a time-out error message.
Sometimes when you receive an error message in Outlook (something like 0×80040900) you may also receive a message beside it that says time-out error message. You may be able to totally fix this problem by increasing the server time-out setting, just follow these points below to resolve this problem;
Outlook 2000 (CW)
Go to the Tools menu, click Services
In the Services tab, select Internet E-mail
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually increase the server time-out setting until the problem is resolved
Outlook 2000 (IMO)
Go to the Tools menu, click Accounts
Select the target account
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually keep increasing the server time-out setting until the problem is resolved
Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003
Go to the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts
Click View or change existing e-mail accounts
Click Next
Click your POP3 account
Click Change
Click More Settings
Click the Advanced tab
Gradually increase the server time-out setting until the issue is resolved.
Outlook 2007
Go to the Tools menu, click Account Settings
Click to select the target POP3 account
Click Change
Click More Settings
Click the Advanced tab
You must now gradually increase the server time-out setting until the issue is fixed
Outlook Express 5.x and 6.0
Go to the Tools menu, click Accounts
Click the Mail tab
Click your POP3 account
Click Properties
Click the Advanced tab
You must now gradually increase the server time-out setting until the problem is fixed
If you cannot fix the problem then you need to download this software to fix your Outlook problem - Click Here to Download RegCure
Here is a quick screenshot of the advanced tab in Outlook 2007 where you can alter the time-out settings;
If you are familiar with Windows XP then you have no doubt used the Run command many times. This was easily accessible via: Start -> Run.
However, things are slightly different in Windows Vista. But in this case they are possibly better. Accessing the Run command in Vista is very simple. You just type the command you want to run in the quick search box. The quick search box is found just under All Programs. See the screenshot below.
How to Use the Run Command in Windows Vista
The Vista quick search box serves a dual purpose. It can obviously be used for searching as well as invoking commands. It will also auto-complete command names which is a pretty handy feature to have.
Remember to try our free scan of Vista to repair errors and speed up your PC.
April 8th, 2008 . by Markus - Add a Comment
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