OPEN OUTLOOK TO A PARTICULAR FOLDER

Your copy of Outlook probably opens to your Inbox, or to Outlook Today. It’s a setting under Tools / Options / Other / Advanced Options. A client inspired me to discover how to leave that unchanged, but also create an icon that opens a new Outlook window...

OUTLOOK E-MAIL SECURITY

The responsibility of owning a computer today includes owning an antivirus program and keeping it up to date. If you haven’t affirmatively done something to update your virus definitions in the last two weeks, then you’re at risk, and you’re putting...

BACK UP OUTLOOK DATA

It can be devastating to lose all the information stored in Outlook. You can back up all that data in just a few steps. Here’s some simple instructions.

ENFISH FIND

I keep searching for the perfect way to index Outlook and my documents so information can be found easily. I’ve been using 80-20 Retriever, which integrates with Outlook, updates its index every night, and comes up with pretty good results. A bit quirky, but not...

INDEXING IN OUTLOOK 2002

According to this article, Outlook 2002 features indexing and search functions for all content in Exchange 2000 Server – including messages, documents, contacts, tasks, calendar items, and other data. That’s a limited feature, because most small businesses...

HOMEPAGE VIRUS

There’s another virus travelling around quickly this morning. It’s similar to the Anna Kournikova “Love Bug” virus – annoying but it doesn’t damage your computer. The “Homepage” virus will arrive in a message from...