Set up Windstream email on Outlook Express

This page has instructions to set up a Windstream email account on Outlook Express. The steps are pretty straightforward and you should have no difficulty. The slideshow has screenshots of the procedure which you can refer when in doubt.
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Windstream email login – access messages on windstream.net

The Windstream email account comes with 50MB of storage space and can be accessed via a webmail interface or through email programs such as Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail. Most subscribers use the former method to check messages on their Windstream account. The same webmail interface will work for alltel.net, ctc.net or valornet.com email accounts too.
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Windstream email incoming & outgoing server

Windstream, the popular ISP, provides a free email account to its subscribers with 50MB storage space which is far from adequate. Nowadays, with people exchanging large digital camera pictures, music and video files, this allotted storage can quickly be over. In fact, many subscribers complain of ‘quota exceeded’ messages on their Windstream email accounts.

A simple solution is to delete all unwanted emails from your Windstream account to recover space. But the more elegant approach is to download the messages and store them on your computer through email clients such as Windows Live Mail, the default program on Windows 7, or Outlook Express.
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Which program to read mail?

Thanks for putting up notes for people like us. A few months back, I was able to make an email address with your instructions. I have another question now. After having used the computer in the town library for months, I have finally mustered enough strength to buy one for myself. I was told it runs Windows 7 and is different from the computer in the library. Which program can read mail for me? I’m a senior citizen, not very computer savvy, and would be really like some detailed advice as to which software to install.
Steve Neu

Email accounts can be accessed with two kinds of programs – web browsers and email clients. And both these applications should already be on your new Windows 7 computer. Which one you want to use depends on the type of email account you hold and how you want to check messages.
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Get new incoming Gmail email notification

I’ve successfully created my Gmail address, thank you. What do I need to do in order to get notified on my computer screen of any new mail(s) arriving in my Gmail inbox?
Steve

The free email account from Google, Gmail, is loaded with features and integrates very well with other Google products and services. If you are a prolific user, you would surely like to receive Gmail email notifications for new incoming messages, right? On this page, I shall detail two ways to get this done on your computer – which one you choose depends entirely on you.
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Links not clickable in Outlook Express

How do I make links clickable to open in Outlook Express? As of now I have to highlight them and copy into my browser. This is very cumbersome and sometimes the links are just too long. Why is Outlook Express now showing links in email?
Brad

Outlook Express can download email messages in either plain text or HTML format – the latter is the default. Any embedded links in an email message are because of HTML. Thus, if Outlook Express does not show clickable links in email and instead gives URL as plain text, you have to change the settings to ensure that messages are downloaded in HTML format.
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Smaller tabs in Chrome browser

Here is something I found an hour back. I’ve been using and avidly following the development of Google Chrome web browser for more than 1.5 years so this took me by complete surprise.

Anyway, I found out that the browser tabs in the Chrome program can be made smaller by a quick mouse drag action. Thus, click on the tab and with the key still depressed move the mouse quickly to the left. You don’t need to move the mouse a lot… just a wee bit. Furthermore, you can be selective and pick the tabs you want to make smaller in size.
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Change file extension in Windows 7

The name of a file on your Windows 7 computer consists of two parts. When you view files in Windows Explorer it displays only the first part, the file extension is hidden. The file extension is used to specify the file type and associate it with a program. Thus, Microsoft Word documents have the extension .doc or the new .docx.

File extensions are generally 3 or 4 characters long. Since these not displayed in Windows Explorer, users come to know of the file type by the file icon. Below is a screenshot of the music folder of my computer. Though most files are .mp3, there are some .mp4 songs too but there is no way to distinguish between the two, unless they were associated with different programs; say, MP3 files with Winamp music player and AAC (.m4a) with iTunes.
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Get file extension in Windows 7

Most of you know that files names in Windows consist of two parts: the file name proper and the file extension. These are separated by the period (dot) and that’s why it’s not a good idea to use this character in the file name itself. File extensions in Windows 7, and a few earlier versions of the operating system, are generally 3 to 4 characters in length and are used to specify the file type.

Anyway, by default Windows Explorer in the Windows 7 operating system does not show the file extension. You cannot get the file extension even when you choose the “Details” option from the “View” menu. The icon of the file identifies it and lets you know which program the file is associated with. Thus, Microsoft Excel documents carry the Excel icon.
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Charter.net email with Windows Live Mail

I had my Charter.net on a Windows XP computer running Outlook Express. I got myself a Windows 7 machine yesterday. Since we don’t have O.E. on the new operating system, can I use my Charter email account on Windows Live Mail?
Packer Backer (PJ)

Though Windows Live Mail, the default email program on Windows 7, may look different from Outlook Express, its function is quite the same. You can download, store, send, and receive email through this new client just as you had done with Outlook Express. So your Charter.net email account will definitely work with Windows Live Mail if you were using with Outlook Express on the old Windows XP computer.
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