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Now back: Attaching photos to messages in Hotmail
10/15/2009 11:48:30 PM, mynetx
Turned off last month due to a security issue with Internet Explorer and Active X, the Photo feature for Windows Live Hotmail has now been fixed and made available again. The Windows Live Team announces: Instead of adding pictures as attachments to your ...
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How-to: Change your Windows Live password
10/7/2009 6:00:44 AM, mynetx
More than 20,000 Windows Live account credentials were published recently. That is why you should change your own password, even if your account was not among them. Here is how to change your password using the Windows Live account center. Open the ...
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The days are numbered for Messenger 2008
9/20/2009 12:46:43 PM, mynetx
In this post: End of Life reached What people think Technical reasons Get Messenger 2009 In case of problems End of Life reached Starting September 15, 2009, users are required to have the latest version of Messenger installed on their computer in ...
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Checking out Office Word Web App
9/18/2009 7:07:26 AM, Andre
Yesterday Microsoft announced the technical preview of Office Web Apps. A suite of Microsoft's popular desktop programs Word, Excel and PowerPoint that are now built into the web browser allowing users rich fidelity of documents anywhere, anytime, any ...
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Clear your search history in Windows Live Toolbar
9/6/2009 3:50:18 AM, mynetx
Windows Live Toolbar remembers what you have searched for lately. Here is how you can empty this search history: Start Internet Explorer. In the toolbar’s search box, enter the first letter of a phrase you have search for previously. Then click on ...
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How-to: Internet Explorer 8—Add Gallery emoticons to Messenger
8/30/2009 3:00:32 AM, mynetx
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and see the following note when trying to add emoticons from Windows Live Gallery to Messenger: “This feature is only available in Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher.”, try this tip to get the import working again. In ...
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Messenger problems: Solving sign-in error code 80048051
8/27/2009 4:21:55 AM, mynetx
You receive error code 80048051 when you try to sign in to Messenger? Try these steps: Disable compatibility mode for Visual themes Click Start, (My) Computer. Browse to the folder C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger. Right-click the ...
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Windows Live Writer is a handy website editor!
8/24/2009 10:25:39 AM, X-Evolutionist
I use Windows Live Writer as a helpful tool for editing my websites. It is “WYSIWYG”, (what you see is what you get). You can see what the page formatting will look like as you create or edit webpage coding. This is as opposed to how I first learned html ...
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Staying Safe On-line with Win 7, AVG, Family Safety Filter and a Linksys Router
8/19/2009 1:14:27 PM, Jay D
Staying safe on-line is Priority One for me as I have four children that absolutely love computers and the internet. Everything from Messenger to Webkinz is used daily by my crew. Win 7 and IE-8 has made the process of staying safe on-line easier than ...
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Messenger problems: Affected by Offline mode
7/18/2009 12:00:52 AM, mynetx
Windows Live Messenger is using the same Internet libraries as Internet Explorer, and thus also using the same connection settings. This means that if Internet Explorer is set to Work offline, Messenger will consider this and deny to sign in. To disable ...
