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How to Close Your Windows Live Hotmail Account
Say "Good-bye" to Windows Live Hotmail and delete your account. (You can say "Hello again" later and reactivate it.)

How to Print a Message in Windows Live Hotmail
Send Windows Live Hotmail messages to your printer without ads or visual clutter.

Set the Windows Live Hotmail Junk Mail Filter to "Standard"
Get rid of a good deal of the spam in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox by making the Windows Live Hotmail spam filters be more (but not too) aggressive.

How to Search Mail in Windows Live Hotmail
Don't play hide and seek with email messages. Here's how to find any message in Windows Live Hotmail.

How to Delete a Folder in Windows Live Hotmail
If a Windows Live Hotmail folder you have created is no longer needed, here's how to get rid of it.

How to Create Folders to Organize Your Messages in Windows Live Hotmail
Tidy up your Windows Live Hotmail by creating folders to file your emails in.

Change Your Windows Live Hotmail Password Periodically
Make sure your Windows Live Hotmail messages are accessible only to you.

How to Send a File Attachment with Windows Live Hotmail
Send documents, pictures, programs, and any other file around the world in seconds easily with Windows Live Hotmail.

How to Send a Web Page Link with Windows Live Hotmail
If you discover a great site on the web, don't you want to let you friends know? Here's how to share web sites easily via Windows Live Hotmail emails.

How to Create a Mailing List with Windows Live Hotmail
Make sending Windows Live Hotmail messages to groups of people easier by setting up a mailing list.

How to Turn on the Rich-Text Editor in Windows Live Hotmail classic
Get a text formatting toolbar for Windows Live Hotmail classic and write your emails using custom fonts, bold face, graphical smileys, and more fun tools.

How to Set Up an Incoming Mail Filter in Windows Live Hotmail
Have Windows Live Hotmail organize incoming mail for you by moving it to the appropriate folder automatically.

How to Report Spam to Improve the Windows Live Hotmail Junk Mail Filter
Help Windows Live Hotmail combat and filter spam by reporting it. It's as easy as deleting the junk.

How to Add a Sender to Your Windows Live Hotmail Address Book Quickly
If somebody has sent you an email and you want to add them to your Windows Live Hotmail address book, here's an easy way to go about doing it.

How to Make Sure Hotmail Doesn't Ban Important Mail as Junk
Use the "Safe List" in Windows Live Hotmail to make sure mail from people you know or newsletters you have signed up for don't end up in the "Junk Mail" folder.

How to Feed Windows Live Hotmail Into SpamCop
Trace, analyze and report the spam you receive at Windows Live Hotmail with ease, and with the help of SpamCop.

How to Set Up Your Windows Live Hotmail Signature
An email signature can include contact info, witty quotations, or even some self-marketing. Here's how to set up your signature to be automatically included in messages you compose in Windows Live Hotmail.

How to Edit Your List of Favorite Contacts in Windows Live Hotmail
Make sure addressing your Windows Live Hotmail classic messages is easiest and fastest for those you send mail to most often.

How to Specify a Reply-To Address in Windows Live Hotmail
Receive replies to your Windows Live Hotmail messages at a different email account.

How to Address Messages with Quicknames in Windows Live Hotmail
You can call me Berta in Windows Live Hotmail, and address your emails to me quickly using that "quickname".

How to Make Windows Live Hotmail Your Default Email Program
Say good-bye to superfluous email programs and make Windows use Windows Live Hotmail for your email tasks (reading and sending mail) automatically.

How to Bookmark Mailing Someone in Hotmail
Open the Hotmail message composition page with the recipient's address already filled in via a bookmark or favorite in your browser.

How to Block a Domain in Windows Live Hotmail
Have Windows Live Hotmail purge all mail from a domain automatically before it enters your inbox.

How to Continue Editing a Message Draft in Windows Live Hotmail
Finishing unfinished messages from drafts is easy in Windows Live Hotmail.

How to Make Sure Windows Live Hotmail Doesn't Ban Mailing Lists as Spam
If you have signed up for mailing lists with your Windows Live Hotmail address, make sure messages from the list get through to your Inbox.

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