[u3aavcuss] Slow PC

From: Ron & Rosemary M - U3A <ronandrosemary62-u3a@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Comp Users Group U3A <u3aavcuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:29:31 +0000 (GMT)
Hello

Following Mike's discussion about Betty's slow computer I thought you may be 
interested in my experience of Microsoft Outlook. Having used this for my email 
for many years I too found that having deleted all my incoming mail the files 
were still taking up a large percentage of at that time a rather small hard 
drive. Firstly I cleared out the in-box, no improvement. Then the outbox and to 
my surprise this contained a huge number of emails I had sent and never thought 
of deleting. Again this made no improvement. Eventually as Mike said I twigged 
that they were not actually deleted but placed in the trash can. Clearing this 
out released no end of disk space and make quite an improvement. From then on I 
decided to use an Internet based email browser rather than load them down onto 
my PC. As I was using BT Broadband I used BT-Yahoo that comes with the package. 
I think most Internet providers have something similar. BT-Yahoo has improved 
over the years and and
 is now much like Microsoft Outlook but with the advantage that none of my 
everyday email ever gets saved onto my hard drive and I can pick up my mail on 
any PC linked to the Internet. I use a number of alias email addresses that get 
filtered off into folders such as U3A, Family and Friends, Shopping and best of 
all one for Aylesbury Freecycle. On writing I have just deleted 1394 email from 
the Aylesbury Freecycle folder and then from the trash can. The shopping folder 
has no end from Tesco, Argos, Amazon and even Delia on-line and if I want, 
these can be sent into electronic oblivion at a single click with hardly a 
thought, leaving me to savour my personal email at leisure.
One small word of warning, BT-Yahoo do not seem to have a limit on the volume 
of mail I keep (at least I haven't found it yet) but Virgin Media for example 
have rather a low tolerance. If you fill up your Virgin mail the whole thing 
comes to a grinding halt that will not even allow you to delete the excess mail 
yourself. Then you have to speak to the very nice man in Bangladesh who you 
haven't a hope of understanding.

Best wishes to all for Chrstmas, Ron M :-)
[u3aavcuss] Slow PC

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