One of the well known email application is Outlook Express. This application are widely used by people, especially the ones that using Microsoft Office in their computer. There are so many applications that support Outlook Express, thus making the people who used it gets more benefits. Some of the additional applications that you could put in your Outlook Express are email recovery, email backup, and fixing the corrupt email. By using this software, you’ll see that there are so many choices of email recovery that you could use.

Outlook Express doesn’t come with no competitors at all. There are so many web based email service on the Internet that are more popular and offering more benefits for its users. You could take a look at Yahoo Mail and GMail (Google Mail). Both of these email services are competing neck to neck to get more users to use their services. They use all resources available to make the users choosing them over their competitors.

By the release of Windows Vista, the popularity of Outlook Express starting to decline because of the new competitor called Windows Mail. Windows Mail using a completely different format from Outlook Express and make all email recovery applications in Outlook Express can’t be used in Windows Mail. This is also a big problem because for people who already comfortable using the email recovery application in Outlook Express can’t use the same application to undo the deletion of their email messages in Windows Mail.

Windows Vista also increased itself against modern threats. They keep updating the security systems and creating new security measures that preventing users from modifying and accessing crucial information. For the home user, this could be a bit comfortable, because if they need to modified the information and bypass the restrictions, they need an Administrator access or at least the user with administrator rights.

The recovery application for Windows Mail understands what people feel. That’s why they created the email recovery program without the need of users to change their access into Administrator just for getting back the emails that they’ve deleted before. You’re only need to run the email recovery application for Windows Mail, and it’ll do the rest of it.

Having an email recovery for Windows Mail is a must. It’s not often, but sometimes you could do an error by deleting some important email messages. That’s why you need to have this application as a backup to avoid this problem.

Yes, you’re still careful in opening an email attachment that you don’t know or visiting some dangerous websites. But, with the knowledge of having antivirus and anti spyware in your back, you could minimize the risk of any virus or spyware attack.

There is one thing you need to know in order to do a full PC maintenance, it’s a log file. Log file is a result that usually created every time your antivirus or anti spyware scanning your PC. It contains many useful information about the current condition of your PC. If you have a network connection for several PCs, learning about log files is very important.

What can you do by the way with these log files? You could track the current condition of your PC and track the progress. Here are several things that you should track down with you log files:

1. Antivirus and anti spyware

Each of this program will gives you a complete log file every time they finished their scans. You could find out about your PC condition starting from the first time you run the antivirus or anti spyware scan program.

2. Performance

If you have a log files that specifically created to track down every PC performance in your network, you could use it to figure out whether performance of each computer increase or decrease. You could also tracking down the causes by comparing the log files that you have before with the latest one. It could also help you to detect whether any malware attach to your PCs and figure out how you can get rid of it.

3. IP address

If you have several problems that start attacking several PCs in your network, you could use the IP address to located the source of problems and give the solutions to it. You could track it down with the log files than checking each PC one by one.

4. Disk Space

You could increase the effectiveness of your disk defragmenter activities by having at least 20% free disk space available. How do you know this? From your log files, of course. Having this information at hand will help you to get the right decision whether you need another hard drives or not.

Doing PC maintenance with antivirus and anti spyware is not enough. You need to be proactive in tracking the progress of your PC. You need to know what makes your PC run faster or what things that make it too slow. Use your log files to give you some clues about what you should do next. Doing this regularly, and you’ll maintain a great condition for your PC.

In order to make your PC run smoothly, you need to take care of it, very carefully. Here are several tips that you could do at home to make your PC stop ruining your life and run smoothly:

1. Clean up your mailbox

If you use web based mailbox, you could skip this step. But, if you use an email program in your PC to handle your emails, consider cleaning it up regularly. Do the backup first of all emails, and then delete all of it. This will free up some space in your computer and make your computer work faster.

2. Installed antivirus program

Often, the main cause that makes your computers so slow is viruses, tons of them. You need good antivirus software installed in your computer to combat these harmful things and prevent it to penetrate your computer in the future. There are so many free antiviruses out there. Download and installed one of them as soon as possible. To avoid any problems between antiviruses, install just ONE of them. If you’re not comfortable with the protection level of some particular antivirus, close it, uninstalled it, and installed the new one.

3. Installed anti spyware program

This program will monitoring any illegal access from the outside and reminds you to kick it out from your systems. It’s the second best thing of software that you should install in your PC.

4. Do disk clean up regularly

It doesn’t have to be daily clean up, doing the weekly or monthly clean up is enough. You could find it by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Clean Up. Make sure you checked all boxes.

5. Delete cached files and cookies

If you’re an internet maniac, you’ll have tons of cached or cookies in your browsers. This will make your browsers load slower. Delete all of these, and your PC will run faster!

6. Empty your recycle bin

Basically, recycle bin is the place where you dump all of the things that you don’t need. It won’t hurt to just empty it. If you don’t know how to empty it right click the recycle bin in your desktop, and choose “Empty Recycle Bin”. You’re done.

7. Defrag computers

Start this by clicking Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Defragmenter choose any drives that you wish to defrag, and your operating system will defrag it right away. It’s very useful to tidy up all of your files, and free up some spaces. If you never did this before, be patient, because it will take a while to finish.

Those are the tips that you could do in order to make your computer works smoothly and faster. Do update your antivirus and anti spyware regularly, defrag your computers and do some disks clean up often, and also don’t forget to clean up the mailbox, recycle bin, cached, and cookies.

When using Microsoft Word there are several shortcuts and tips that you can do to make your document writing faster. Microsoft Word also designed to adapt for any changes you made during typing. In short, you could type all the paragraphs, and format it later. It’s proven to be easier to do so than typing and stop to format it.

Here are 5 Top Tips that you could apply to your daily use of Microsoft Word and increase your productivity , no more grumpy when facing it :

1. Fixing Caps Lock Disaster

We usually tend to focus on typing something without looking at our monitor. It’s a good thing to increase your productivity. But, you’ll soon realize that disasters already happen when you’re on your 5th paragraphs. All words in the paragraphs are capitalized! It’s impossible to delete the paragraphs and rewrite it again without breaking someone’s neck. What you could do is blocked the text that you want to change the capitalization, choose “Format” from the toolbar, and then pick “Change Case”. You could see several options to fix your errors. Doing it this way will surely save you lots of time.

2. Fast Changing For Capitals

Sometimes we need to change the capitals fast without doing some format and spend our time playing with the toolbars. If you want to set upper case for the words or paragraphs that you intend to, highlight it and press Ctrl+Shift+A. Press and hold the first two button first, and then press the last button. You could change the text into smaller capitals by pressing Ctrl+Shift+K. The same rules apply.

3. Switch between Document Pages Fast

These tips will help you to switch between several pages in the same document:
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Up: Switch to previous page
- Ctrl+Alt+Page Down: Switch to the next page
- Ctrl+Home: Showing top of your document
- Ctrl+Alt+End: Showing end of your document

4. Page Breaks

You could insert page breaks quickly and easily by pressing the Ctrl+Enter button. This is very useful if you have lots of pages that you want to edit faster.

5. Finding the Last Changing

We often forget where the last time we do our changes is. For novelist, this could be troublesome because it’ll need lots of time to get back from the beginning just to continue the last changes. Do this by pressing Shift+F5. You could spot the latest place that you’ve changed.

Those are 5 Quick Tips that you could add to your daily typing routine using Microsoft Word. Use it generously, and save your time from switching back and forth between pages or drowning in the Microsoft Word toolbars.