Windows Mail

Windows Vista is the operating system that is automatically pre loaded with several mind blowing features but they all may not be helpful for your computer system. After Windows XP, Vista was released with so many features that would make any one fall for this platform. You have the right to optimize the computer system and can win over certain functions to be able to disable them which are otherwise not in use. Still many people don’t use all of the features and in this case it would be better to disable the unnecessary features.

Steps to disable unnecessary features in Windows Vista!

1. Select the Start button and then choose Control Panel.

2. Select the Programs icon.

3. The third step is to select the “Enable or disable” option for windows programs and features, under the same heading.

4. Then you will have to select the “Continue” tab.

5. After the above step, the list of the features present in the system will be shown. You have to uncheck the boxes of all those features that you do not want to use. For an instance, you can uncheck the box of Tablet Pc in case you do not have that or can also uncheck the games box if you are not using Windows games prior DFS Replication Service and so on. The choice is entirely yours.

6. Finally, Select the OK tab when you are done with it. You can again recheck them if the need arises.

There are many benefits to writing an email in rich html format in Windows Mail or Outlook Express. One of the main benefits would be that you can insert links to websites. Another great fact is that you can also insert a picture into your email so the person receiving the email sees the picture straight away.  Writing an email in HTML rich text format also can make your email look like a professional webpage.

How to make your Windows mail email into a webpage with links and pictures

1. Open Windows Mail
2. Click on the create mail icon at the top
3. Got to the format menu and choose rich text HTML from the menu
4. Now a HTML editor tool bar will appear just above where you will write the content of your email.

How to insert a link into your email?

You can make your text into a html link. So therefore you can link to a website and user anchor text. For example you can make this Tips4pc link to the Tips4pc website, instead of having this ugly link http://www.tips4pc.com

1. Select the text in the content of your email by making it blue.
2. Then press on Create a hyperlink icon in the HTML toolbar.

How to insert a picture from your hard drive or one stored on the internet?

Not only can you insert pictures from your hard drive but you can also insert pictures and graphics that are stored on the internet. Just simply go to the picture you want in your email. Right click on it and choose properties. Then copy the url of the picture. So when you need to say where the picture is stored, you can paste that url in and the picture will appear in your email.

1. Click on the insert picture icon.
2. To insert a picture from your computer click on browse to find a picture on your hard drive.
3. To insert a picture that is stored on the internet paste the url into where it says location.

If your Email provider did not give you a setup disc you can setup a Windows Mail account manually as long as you have the settings available;

What you need to setup an account in Windows Mail:

1. You will need the Windows Mail program that comes free with Windows Vista
2. You will need to know your email address
3. Your password
4. Your incoming mail server
5. Your outgoing mail server
6. Sometimes you will need to know a port number to use. The default is 25, however some mail servers need to use 80.

Watch this video below to see how to add an email account to Windows Mail.

Adding people to your contact list in Windows Mail is pretty much exactly like Outlook Express in Windows XP. However there is an Extra Windows Mail tip for you.

Here are a few different ways to add a contact to your address book in Windows Mail.

Add a sender to your contact list

1. When your emails have come in and you see them in the inbox. Before opening them you can select it by making it blue.
2. Then right click and choose add sender to the address book.
3. Now you will be taken to the address book to edit your new contact.

Add all email addresses that came with the email

1. Open an email that has more than one recipient. (Your friend sent it to you and three others)
2. Then go to the tools menu.
3. Choose add sender to address book.
4. Then you will have a choice to choose to add the sender, everyone on the list, or choose the addresses individually. For example: my uncle sent me an email but he had sent it to my two cousins as well. Therefore in that list were my cousins email addresses.

Also watch this video tutorial on how to add a contact to your address book in Windows mail.