[bcab] Re: Subject Line

Hi Dorothy.  Here are a few tips which I hope will help to ease some of your 
computer problems.

Firstly, the issue with regards to emails coming in to more than one folder.  
For many email users 
this is actually a choice, they want emails to go to separate folders 
automatically to help keep 
them organised, and this can be set up fairly easily in Outlook Express using 
something called 
"message rules".
My guess is that if your emails are going to different folders, there are 
existing message rules 
which have been put on your O E, and if that's true and you DON'T want it to be 
happening, i e you 
want all emails to go to your inbox, then the solution is to turn off or remove 
all message rules. 
Your IT friend should be able to help you with this, or if you want to do it 
yourself you can do so 
by the following steps:-

1.  Choose Tools menu, message rules, mail -
(shortcut ALT T, then R, then Enter on "Mail dot dot dot").
2.  If after this you hear "message rule number X", then you've definitely got 
message rules set up, 
any that are are all in a vertical list with checkboxes.   To uncheck them so 
that they no longer 
filter messages, go down this list and uncheck each one, one at a time, by 
using down arrow and 
spacebar.
3.  Once all message rules are unchecked, press Enter to come out of the 
message rules dialog.  From 
then on all emails on that machine should come to your inbox.

Secondly, the matter of having one email account, and 2 different machines 
collecting the email from 
it.
Any email which is sent to you is stored on your ISP's mail server, and it only 
exists there until 
it has been collected.   Therefore if you collect your email on one machine, 
then immediately go to 
another machine and try to collect the email from the same account on that 
machine, you will 
probably find that there is none there.

If you really want to have email on both systems which is identical, i e so 
that all messages are 
the same and in duplicate on both machines, this is a little tricky to set up, 
however again your IT 
friend should be able to help do this.  What he needs to do is set up one 
machine to "leave a copy 
of messages on server", after collecting the email so that the other machine 
can still collect it as 
well.  This option is found under the account properties, advanced tab.

Thirdly the matter of Microsoft.  Unfortunately a new machine with Windows XP 
is set up by default 
so that 1 a user is notified of all system errors, and also 2 so that whenever 
you are notified, you 
are asked in a dialog box whether or not you wish to send an error report to 
Bill Gates.  Both these 
features can be turned off with a slight customisation that means you get less 
crash errors, and 
that it never asks you to send them to Microsoft again, which is certainly more 
useful for people 
who wish to get on and use their machine instead of dealing with errors all the 
time.   To adjust 
the error reporting settings, again your IT friend should be able to help but 
if you wish to try it 
yourself, it can be done via the following method.

1.  Hold down the Windows key & press D to go to your desktop.
2. Press the letter M repeatedly until you come to "My Computer", then press 
"ALT Enter" for 
properties.
3. Right arrow 3 times to get to "advanced tab" then press "ALT R" for the 
"error reporting" button.
4. Press ALT S and you should hear "disable error reporting selected".
5.  Then press Enter twice, to exit the dialog box and return to your desktop.  
Done! no more 
requests to send error reports to Microsoft.

In the longer term if your computer is crashing a lot, the cause of the 
crashing needs to be 
investigated.  Perhaps you could persuade your IT friend to give the computer a 
full check for virii 
and spyware, as well as to inspect the computer's startup configuration to make 
sure that no 
unnecessary programs are loading at startup.

I hope this little bit of info goes some way towards helping you.

Take care good luck & all the best.

Leon Gilbert
Editor, www.vipnews.org.uk

PS: I think Leonie is currently the moderator on this list!  I also don't think 
anyone was being 
personal, just trying to request subject line netiquette as politely as 
possible.


Original Message ----- 
From: "Dorothy Ingram-Gorban" <dorothy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 6:59 AM
Subject: [bcab] Subject Line


This is Dorothy.  If I have caused you any inconvenience I am sorry,
however I would have thought a  little understanding goes a long way.  I
could have been contacted off  list if you can see my Email address.  Odd
things have happened and a bit of help instead of criticism would have been
kinder.  Take the desktop where I am typing this in spite of all efforts by
a sighted friend who has used a computer for  fifteen years and who  uses
Outlook express, your posts are coming into  more than  one folder.  Not
just the in box.  My ISP technical line which I was able to  get hold of
with difficulty said my accounts  are " corrupted"  he says I have 1 account
and all Emails should come in on both the laptop and desktop. Tony a RnIb
Volunteer who transported information over onto the  laptop  said I should
always  receive  emails on both and for the most part I do.  Hence at the
same time as joining this list to lose a large amount of correspondence not
just from you but  personal and highly important Emails was worrying  Add to
this that Microsoft has for some time given a warning that a serious error
has occurred and mentioned a  number of Graphic numbers which  do not know
the meaning of, this has been  worrying. I have not understood what
Microsoft has wanted from me and if the  error is of their making? Is it my
corrupted accounts? is it Microsoft's fault.  If so is it Microsoft who
needs to put it right  or  I  get rid of corrupted  accounts?  It may be the
case that you do not know. It maybe you are used to Microsoft announcing
serious  errors. I keep hearing "the system has recovered from a  serious
error, what is the difference then between being told by Microsoft about
something they need to gather information on  and my system recovering a
serious error..   This has all been very worrying for me.  Incidentally who
is the Moderator of this list please?  At the moment I am thinking of
changing my ISP completely. I will need  a sighted person I think to  help
me and as stated at the moment there  none as and not ONE around.  Thank
for
taking the trouble to read this and  as I have said a little kindness and
understanding goes a long long way. I did try to explain the difficulty as
far back as the 18th and Leonie does in fact have my Email address my phone
number  and in my opinion it would have been better for her to have simply
phoned me if she chose not to  as she did that is her choice  Yours
sincerely
Dorothy Ingram  Gorban Tel No 01892 549 793


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