many thanks for replying. I reckon on mastering Ms outlook on my windows 7 machine by then, but the little laptop will tide me over for now. Mind you I have had a silly memory lapse I know how to empty the deleted folder in Ms outlook,but forgotten the way to do it in Outlook express which was very easy,even the engineer did not know,he also said you cannot set Outlook express to use Bcc,I remember you can, but his english is not so easy I did manage to make him work with Jaws speaking,and his every inclination was to put Jaws to sleep and move fast with the mouse, actually it does them good to listen to jaws, I am talking mainstream engineers here of course , I cannot help wondering what jaws has in store for us later this year,personally I just want what we have to work better,but the eternal race I fear is relentless dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: Jörgen Magnusson To: org, jfw@freelists. Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 8:00 AM Subject: Re: choosing email client Outlook express is far more accesible but of course will not develop further. Windows live is managable but more cumbersome to me. From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 7:03 PM To: org, jfw@freelists. Subject: choosing email client I do have windows 7 64 bit desktop and use Ms outlook or try to. However i kept my xp laptop and like to use Outlook express,, but since I had to put Office 7 on it as the original cd's were scratched,the engineer used my copy of office 7,ibought it for windows 7 but think I am allowed to use on 2 computers? Now as was explained by dave last weekthe snag is the spell checker will only spell in french,and there is a choice either a tool such as dave suggested,or I am told the microsoft website suggest windows live, I do not know a thing about windows live,but if some of you have used both Outlook express and windows live, are they very different? Which do you prefer, my laptop is xp and has Jaws 11 fully patched Dorothy Ps I am finding ms outlook on windows 7 very hard I need simplicity for this little laptop thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2983 - Release Date: 07/05/10 07:36:00