Hi Joe, I have had to send emails to myself on occasion when say changing computer! The thing to remember is to shut down your email client as soon as you send otherwise it will come in to your laptop again! Happy new year! Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: joe bollard To: vip students Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: [vip_students] laptop question again hello friends, and i hope this coming year will be a good and stress free year for all of us, now, i'm still learning about my laptop, and here's something that is puzzling me, i got an e mail from a very good friend of mine in the states, i opened up my outlook express this morning and found his e mail there, i was on my laptop at the time, i want to transfer the e mail on to my desktop, how do i do that?? i'm not explaining this very well, the e mail he sent me contains scripts for a programme i have on my desktop, but at present they are sitting on my laptop, i did think that perhaps i could send the aforementioned e mail to myself and open it on my desktop, would that work? one of my new year resolutions is to seriously improve my computer education, so watch this space, can anyone help, travel safely, joe.