Fix PC Errors

If you have ever used Outlook, you are too aware of how annoying PST files are. They are hard to find, have problematic file sizes and they often become corrupt. Besides that, Outlook is a great product.

Anyway, for too long the management of PST files within Outlook has been a real hassle. Rolling back to older versions and trying to repair existing PST files never works well.

We have recently been playing around with a new tool that is a PST file recovery program. So far we have been pretty impressed with the product. It does a good job and works quite fast. So if you have any PST issues at all, give this product a try. The download is free, so you can try it out and see what you think.

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Outlook Express is such a good email program used by millions all over the world, but after a while you may get problems with startup speed and other slow errors.

I used to get so frustrated with the speed of my Outlook opening, it sometimes took up to 2 minutes just to open. This was just an annoyance when I needed to access emails fast. I discovered this cool tweak that you can do that will increase the speed of your outlook startup dramatically.

Basically, every time you get an email your Outlook will store it in a file, so after a while this file will become huge. You need to go through your emails and delete all the useless emails you do not need, this should free up some space and make your startup faster. The startup will become faster because your Outlook has to look through this entire file every time it starts up.

Even after you delete a bunch of old emails you may find that your Outlook still takes a while to start up. This is due to that fact that your outlook still has to look through the entire file for emails, whether it is full or empty, so you need to compact this file to make sure your startup is fast.

Follow these points to compact your personal folders file in Outlook;

• Open up your Outlook
• Click tools
• Open up options
• Click the mail setup tab
• Open up data files
• Click on settings
• Click compact now
• It may take a minute or two
• Done

This should help you increase the startup speed of your Outlook and stop the frustration of waiting minutes to see emails, but remember also to regularly delete unwanted emails to keep your personal folders clean.

For more info on cleaning Outlook Express click here

Outlook Express error - 0×800CCC00 Authentication did not load

I got an email from a distressed outlook user who has been getting an error code and can’t seem to be able to use her Outlook. The error code that comes up is 0×800CCC00 - Authentication did not load.

This is a fairly common Outlook error code and can be easy to fix. The 0×800CCC00 error code means that there is some sort of corruption in your outlook Express account, which is not as bad as it seems. Just follow these tips and you should rid yourself of the 0×800CCC00 Outlook error code.

• Turn off Outlook and restart,
• If that doesn’t work turn off your computer totally and wait for about 30 minutes.

If this tip does not work send me another email and I will assist you more.

Thanks guys, more tomorrow.

Scheduling events in you Outlook (97, 98, and 2000) can make life easier for you as you don’t have to remember things (like anniversaries!), you just add the date to your Outlook and it reminds you.

You can add events as both a one off thing, or a recurring event by using the calendar in your Outlook. To add an event in Outlook just follow these points;

• Open the calendar in your Outlook
• Right click in the calendar and select New All-Day Event
• Type a description in the subject box
• Add a location if it is appropriate
• Enter any other notes in the box
• You now select if the event is recurring
• Click save and you are done

If you are using Outlook Express but you have your address book still on a Hotmail account, you can move all your contacts across.

To get started on the transfer you first need to configure your Outlook Express to use a Hotmail account, you do this by Windows Live Mail which I have talked about in this post.

When you have configured your Outlook Express to use Hotmail account just follow these points and you will be able to access all of your address book in Outlook;

• Access your Hotmail account and verify the contacts are in the address book
• Open Outlook Express
• Open the Tools menu
• Click Address Book
• In the Address Book display click Synchronize Now on the Tools menu

You will now be able to access all your contacts from your Hotmail account in your Outlook Express.

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.

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

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Here is a quick screenshot of the advanced tab in Outlook 2007 where you can alter the time-out settings;

I had an email overnight from a reader in the UK asking about Outlook. They wanted to know how to change the color of a note, although I don’t use much of Outlook I do remember how to change the color. Just follow these points;

• Click on Notes on the Navigation pane
• (or you can simply use your down arrow and scroll down to Note)
• (or Keyboard Shortcut is CTRL+SHIFT+N)
• Write any information you want in the note
• You must now close the note
• Right click on the closed note
• Select the arrow by Color
• Here you can choose any new color you want
• All Done!

Take it easy guys and I will be back tomorrow with some new updates.

If you need to speed up your working time on Outlook and you haven’t yet used shortcuts, then use these shortcuts. By learning these and getting used to using them you will browse and use Outlook much faster (the trouble still is learning to use them!).

Here is a list of some Outlook keyboard shortcuts;

• Jump to Mail: CTRL + 1 (Press “Control” button and “1″ button simultaneously)
• Jump to Calendar: CTRL + 2
• Jump to Contacts: CTRL + 3
• Jump to Tasks: CTRL + 4
• Jump to Notes: CTRL + 5
• Create a new email message: CTRL + Shift + M
• Create a new appointment item: CTRL + Shift + A or CTRL + Shift + Q
• Reply to sender: CTRL + R
• Reply to all: Ctrl + Shift + R
• Forward message: CTRL + F
• Send Message: CTRL + Enter or Alt + S
• Launch Advanced Find: F3
• Spell checker: F7
• Jump cursor to Find Contact textbox: F11
• Open address book: CTRL + Shift + B

I find that you should pick 2 or 3 shortcuts that you think you will need the most and perfect them.

With so many people using Outlook Express every day tonnes of old emails backup in your inbox which can create some problems. Some problems that can occur with a massive inbox include;

• Decreases the speed of Outlook Express
• Increases the space of Outlook Express files
• Files damaged in failure

To solve this problem you must compact all your messages in Outlook Express so that you will massively decrease the chances of any problem happening in your inbox. Fixing this problem is very simple and only takes 1 minute, follow the following dot points and you will be right;

• Go to the inbox of your Outlook Express
• Click on the file tab
• Open up the the folder tab
• Click on Compact all Folders

You can also just compact individual folders if you prefer, in the folder tab just select on Compact and here just select the folder you wish to compact. But I do recommend that you just select the Compact all Folders method.

I hope this has been easy to understand and good Outlooking!