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Windows Live Hotmail Tips, Tricks and Secrets

Do you want to get the most out of your Windows Live Hotmail account? Here are tips that help you find one or the other feature you didn't know of, or maybe do something you do know a tad faster.
Most Popular Windows Live Hotmail Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
Does it take money to be popular? Or fame? Do you need lucky breaks? Maybe… but no. None of this is necessary. Not in life, and not if you are a Windows Live Hotmail tip. These tips have gained popularity by presenting their smart and sometimes surprising ideas in helpful ways — ways that let people like you profit instantly. The tips enjoy it, and they love their popularity, too.
How to Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with IncrediMail
That's where IncrediMail gets really hot: receive and send Windows Live Hotmail from within IncrediMail.
How to Access a Windows Live Hotmail Account with Outlook Express
Use Windows Live Hotmail with the power and comfort of Outlook Express. Here's how to access your Windows Live Hotmail account from Outlook Express to send, receive and archive mail in your Hotmail account.
How to Access AOL Mail and AIM Mail in Windows Live Hotmail
You don't have to go to AOL to get your AOL Mail. You can get all new messages in Windows Live Hotmail, too. Of course, this works beautifully with AIM Mail as well.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in IncrediMail
Download mail from a free Windows Live Hotmail account to IncrediMail comfortably.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in iPhone Mail
Set up access to a free Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail account in iPhone Mail. Working transparently, you can even use your custom folders in addition to fetching and sending mail.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Mozilla Thunderbird
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Mozilla Thunderbird? Here's how easy this is to set up with a smart tool that translates between the two.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Outlook Express
Using FreePOPs, you can download the messages in your free Windows Live Hotmail account in Outlook Express. Here's how to set this up.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail in Windows Mail
Do you want to download mail from your Windows Live Hotmail account into Windows Mail? Here's how to set that up.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail via POP or IMAP with IzyMail
IzyMail brings fully access to any Windows Live Hotmail account to any email program or mobile device. You can even play with all your custom folders using IMAP access.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail via POP with FreePOPs
Use FreePOPs and these settings to download mail from a free Windows Live Hotmail account to just about any email program.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail
You want to access all your email accounts — including a free Windows Live Hotmail account — in Mac OS X Mail? Here's how to set that up with MacFreePOPs, a smart little webmail tool.
How to Access Gmail in Windows Live Hotmail
You like Windows Live Hotmail but some of your mail likes to arrive at your Gmail account? Here's how to have Windows Live Hotmail to convince them to show up in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox — or a dedicated folder if you like.
How to Access POP Email Accounts in Windows Live Hotmail
Why use Windows Live Hotmail only for Windows Live Hotmail mail? Here's how to have it download new messages from your other POP accounts — and sort them to special Inboxes if you like.
How to Access Windows Live Hotmail in Windows Live Mail desktop
Since Windows Live Mail desktop and Windows Live Hotmail know each other so well, adding a new Windows Live Hotmail account for sending and receiving emails is particularly easy.
How to Access Free Windows Live Hotmail via POP in Any Email Program
Here are the details you need to set up a free Windows Live Hotmail account in any email program using POP.
How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Mac OS X Mail
Fetch and read and reply to Windows Live Hotmail messages from within Mac OS X Mail.
How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook
Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.
How to Access Yahoo! Mail in Windows Live Hotmail
Set up a Yahoo! Mail Plus account in Windows Live Hotmail, and new messages will arrive automatically in your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox — or a dedicated folder if you want.
How to Add a Bcc: Recipient to a Message in Windows Live Hotmail
Want to add recipients to your emails that other recipients can't see? Here's how to use the Bcc: field in Windows Live Hotmail.
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 Add an Alternate Address to Your Windows Live Hotmail Account
If you have added an alternate email address to your Windows Live Hotmail account, you can receive a link to a personal password resetting page at it that will allow you to restore access easily should you forget your password.
How to Add an Image to Your Windows Live Hotmail Email Signature
An image says more than 10 signature words: here's how to add a graphic to your Windows Live Hotmail email signature.
How to Add Recipients from Your Address Book Easily in WL Hotmail
There's no need to remember email addresses. Windows Live Hotmail does it for you, and makes it easy using them, too.
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 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 Change the Font Size in Windows Live Hotmail Messages
Use bigger fonts to make your Windows Live Hotmail messages easier to read, or smaller fonts to make them look classy, or whatever you desire.
How to Change the Name in the From Line in Windows Live Hotmail
Whether your name has changed, whether you want to take off your corporate hat and be aunt Julie for a while, or whether you just seek some fun, in Windows Live Hotmail changing the name that is displayed in the From: line of emails you send is easy.
How to Change the Sort Order of Your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox
Sort your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox (and any other folder) by date, size, status, sender, subject, importance or attachment.
How to Change Your Windows Live Hotmail Password Periodically
Make sure your Windows Live Hotmail messages are accessible only to you.
How to Clean a Folder, Your Inbox Radically in Windows Live Hotmail
Delete all messages (except those you want to keep) in a Windows Live Hotmail folder quickly.
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 Continue Editing a Message Draft in Windows Live Hotmail
Finishing unfinished messages from drafts is easy in Windows Live Hotmail.
How to Copy and Paste Without Right-Click Menu Options in Windows Live Hotmail
No right-click context menu! No pasting text into Windows Live Hotmail messages? Fortunately, Windows Live Hotmail provides an alternate route to copying, pasting and cutting text or graphics in email messages you are composing. (This should also work in other web-based email services that lack a context menu.)
How to Copy, Paste or Cut Text Without a Context Menu
Unfortunately, not every text field has a handy right-click context menu. Fortunately, you can still cut, copy and paste text swiftly or undo your last actions.
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 Create Folders to Organize Your Messages in Windows Live Hotmai
Tidy up your Windows Live Hotmail by creating folders to file your emails in.
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 Display Remote Images in a Message in Windows Live Hotmail
Even if you have blocked remote images in Windows Live Hotmail for security reasons, you can selectively view messages with all their inline pictures.
How to Download Mail from a Specific Windows Live Hotmail Folder Using FreePOPs
Fetch mail not only from your Inbox but from any Windows Live Hotmail folder with FreePOPs (and you can download existing mail, too).
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 Empty "Deleted" and "Junk" Fast in Windows Live Hotmail
Get the boldness off your Windows Live Hotmail "Junk" folder, and the "Deleted" items count down to zero: here's how to empty these folders with two simple clicks each.
How to Exchange Instant Messages in Windows Live Hotmail
Want to reply to an email instantly and get an answer just as quickly, too? Here's how to chat using Live Messenger right in Windows Live Hotmail.
How to Export Contacts and Email Addresses from Windows Live Hotmail
Keep your contacts in sync. Here's how to export email addresses and contact details from Windows Live Hotmail so you can import them in your email client or another email service.
How to File or Move a Message Quickly in Windows Live Hotmail
Deletion is not the only way to keep your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox clean. Here's how to file messages to appropriate folders.
How to Find a Contact's Mail Fast in Windows Live Hotmail
What did they write? Here's how to see a contact's recent emails in Windows Live Hotmail — without typing their address in a search field.
Forward a Message Excluding its Attachments with Windows Live Hotmail
Forward an email message, but not its attached files with Windows Live Hotmail.
How to Forward Email Messages with Windows Live Hotmail
Windows Live Hotmail makes it easy to share great emails with friends by forwarding them.
How to Forward Windows Live Hotmail Email to Another Hotmail or Email Account
Have Windows Live Hotmail redirect all incoming mail from one account to another (or, if you use Windows Live Hotmail Plus, to any email address).
How to Go Directly to Your Windows Live Hotmail Inbox, Skip "Today"
Skip today's headlines, gossip and your storage gauge. Make Windows Live Hotmail open directly to your email inbox instead.
How to Import Your Windows Live Hotmail Messages and Contacts Into Gmail
Want to migrate all the mail and email addresses you have accumulated from Windows Live Hotmail to Gmail? Here's how.
How to Insert an Image Inline in an Email with Windows Live Hotmail
Instead of sending the photo as an attachment, why not insert it right into the email? Here's how to trick Windows Live Hotmail into allowing that.
How to Insert Images, Local Maps, Movie Times and More Quickly in Hotmail
Sending maps, images, restaurants, movie times and other useful information is easy in Windows Live Hotmail: you can search and insert with easy click right while composing a message.
How to Insert Graphical Smileys in Your Windows Live Hotmail Messages
Share your emoticons graphically with Windows Live Hotmail by inserting cute little smileys in your email messages.
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 Recover a Lost Windows Live Hotmail Password
If you cannot remember the password to your Windows Live Hotmail account, here are ways to create a new one — and get to your mail, too.
How to Make Windows Live Hotmail Accept Mail Only From Known Senders
Do you have enough of seeing all the junk in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox and know all the people who will contact you? Here's how to make Windows Live Hotmail move all messages from other senders straight to the "Junk" folder.
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 Print a Message in Windows Live Hotmail
Send Windows Live Hotmail messages to your printer without ads or visual clutter.
How to Remove an Address from Your Blocked Senders in Win Live Hotmail
Did the emails from a good friend suddenly stop coming? Maybe she has been accidentally blocked in Windows Live Hotmail. Here's how to unblock any sender again.
How to Remove an Address from Your Windows Live Hotmail Safe List
Has a spammer abused the address of the newsletter you whitelisted in Hotmail? Has another sender fallen from grace with you? Here's how to delete addresses and domains from your Windows Live Hotmail "Safe List".
How to Report Spam to Improve the Windows Live Hotmail Junk Filter
Help Windows Live Hotmail combat and filter spam by reporting it. It's as easy as deleting the junk.
How to Save Copies of Sent Mail in Windows Live Hotmail
Always know what you said, to whom, and when — save copies of outgoing messages in Windows Live Hotmail. Here's how to do it.
How to Save Drafts of Longer Messages in Windows Live Hotmail
Be safe and save your Windows Live Hotmail message as a draft so you can continue editing it later.
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 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 Message in Plain Text from Windows Live Hotmail Classic
Concentrate the power in your words, not in their appearance. Here's how to compose and send plain text emails with Windows Live Hotmail Classic.
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 Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in Windows Live Hotmail
Obvious obscurity is fun: send an email to "undisclosed recipients" from Windows Live Hotmail.
How to Send Mail from Any of Your Email Accounts with Windows Live Hotmail
Have you ever wanted to reply — or send a fresh email — using a different account and address, right within Windows Live Hotmail? Here's how to set up Windows Live Hotmail and any of your email addresses for just that.
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 Set up an Out-of-Office Vacation Auto-Response in Windows Live Hotmail
Let Windows Live Hotmail reply to incoming emails while you are unable to.
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 Set Your Windows Live Hotmail Time Zone And Avoid Emails Sent Hours Off
Times are goofy in your email? It might be the Windows Live Hotmail time zone set wrongly. Here's how to fix it.
How to Suggest a Feature or Improvement for Windows Live Hotmail
Know how to make Windows Live Hotmail better? Here's how and where to let the Windows Live Hotmail team know about your feature suggestion or improvement idea.
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 View an Email's Source in Windows Live Hotmail
In Windows Live Hotmail, you can inspect a message's source (which contains routing information, all attachments in crude form and even HTML parts in their plain text code) without opening the message itself.
Know When Your Windows Live Hotmail Account Becomes Inactive
Be sure to log in to Windows Live Hotmail before your account (and your mail) disappears.
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.
There's a Size Limit When Sending Attachments with Windows Live Hotmai
You can send anything with Windows Live Hotmail by attaching it to a message — unless it's too big.

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