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The Windows Mail app is built for connected devices like mobile phones and tablets, and allows full sync across all your devices. If you move a message into an email folder from your tablet, your phone and computer will also show that same change. Where Windows 7 required you to install your own email program to get email, Windows 8 now lets you do so right out of the box. And even if your email provider does not support synchronization like this, you still have a few options: Move to a new email service provider This might require changing your email address and is generally the least favorable option. Hardly anyone wants  yet another email address. Use a different email program Because computer manufacturers bundle extra apps, many users are unaware that after Windows XP, Windows Vista was the last OS to come with a full email program. Windows 7 and 8 do not come with any successors to Windows Mail. Instead, you can get it as an optional download from the Windows Es

The first step to bringing a gmail-style workflow to Outlook is setting up conversation views.  These allow you to see all emails in a conversation, sent and received, no matter whom the message was from or what folder you moved it to.  It’s especially useful in long conversations that split off into separate discussions from multiple recipients.  One click expands a message to show the rest of the conversation, and each email includes the folder it currently calls home:    Next, set up an archive folder.  Call it whatever you like: this is where you’ll banish emails after they’ve arrived to your inbox, you’ve made eye contact, and decided what to do with it.  In other words, your Inbox lives up to its name and only holds items you still need to take action upon.I’ve setup a Quick Step button to mark a message as read and move it to the Archive folder with one click.  To set up a Quick Step, simply right-click any message, point to Quick Steps and use the New optio

  Using the Easy Transfer Wizard is super simple.  You can use this tool to transfer you files and settings even if you are moving from an 32 bit (x86) environment to an 64 bit (x64).  Basically you run the program on your old computer, it grabs all your “stuff” and zips it up for you and places it on a USB hard drive.  You then plug that USB hard drive into your new Windows 8 computer and run the wizard again to do the restore.  You do have to be able to login to both your old computer and your new computer as an administrator. - See more at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2013/02/migration-and-deployment-how-to-migrate-or-transfer-files-and-settings-to-windows-8-from-windows-7-vista-or-xp-part-4-of-19/#sthash.f7d8XEfD.dpuf Windows XP/Windows Vista :  For migrating from Windows XP, you will need to download and install the Windows Easy Transfer Wizard.  If your old PC isn't running Windows 7, you'll need to install the appropriate version of Windows Easy Transfer.

These instructions are for setting up a Windows 8 PC. With the Remote Desktop app from the Windows Store, you can sit at a PC and connect to another PC in a different location (the remote PC). For example, you can sit at your home PC and connect to your work PC, and use all of your apps, files, and network resources as if you were sitting right in front of your work PC. How do I connect to another PC with Remote Desktop? To set up the remote PC Go to the remote PC. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Search (or if you're using a mouse, point to the upper-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Search ), enter allow remote in the search box, and then tap or click Allow remote access to your computer .  You might be asked for an admin password or to confirm your choice. In the System Properties dialog box, under Remote Desktop , make sur

Microsoft has warned its Microsoft Office users of significant rise in malware attacks through macros in Excel and Word programs. Microsoft says that there is more than a threefold jump in the malware campaigns spreading two different Trojan downloaders. These Trojan downloaders arrive in emails masquerading as orders or invoices. The malwares are being spread through spam emails containing following subject lines accordingly to Microsoft ACH Transaction ReportDOC-file for report is ready Invoice as requestedInvoice – P97291Order – Y24383Payment DetailsRemittance Advice from Engineering Solutions LtdYour Automated Clearing House Transaction Has Been Put On And the attachment containing Adnel and Tarbir campaigns is usually named as following : 20140918_122519.doc 813536MY.xls ACH Transfer 0084.doc Automated Clearing House transfer 4995.doc BAC474047MZ.xls BILLING DETAILS 4905.doc CAR014 151239.doc ID_2542Z.xls Fuel bill.doc ORDER DETAILS 9650.doc Payment Advice 593016.do