Hotmail to Outlook

[Carole]

Any-one use Hotmail.

I seem to have had my hotmail converted to Outlook and it's awful, I hate it, its slow to respond to any command, and the flagged items don't show clearly. 

This is not an upgrade, it's a downgrade, upgrades should be an improvement, why must they always keep tinkering with things, if it's not broke no need to fix it.

I guess I am stuck with it, unless any-one knows better?

Carole   

[ApophisAstros]

had GoogleMail for as long as i can remember , always fast and never a problem.
   Roger

[Carole]

I have googlemail (I used it for back up in the past and I use the google calendar which I can sync to my smartphone), but I don't like the way that works for E Mail.  Was always missing new mail because they rolled it onto the end of a previous conversation.  Had the same problem with Virgin webmail (who are my ISP).  So went over to Hotmail as I preferred the way it worked, also can access from anywhere.

Don't really want to have to change it again, I guess I'll just have to get used to it.

Carole

[Mike]

but I don't like the way that works for E Mail.  Was always missing new mail because they rolled it onto the end of a previous conversation

That is conversation view. Simply disable it for normal view.

[Carole]

That is conversation view. Simply disable it for normal view.

Didn't know you could so that. 

Pretty sure you can't with Virgin webmail, I found that totally impossible to cope with.  Folders would disappear, you'd get about 4 or 5 lines of E mails showing and about 5/6 of the page would be blank. 

Well I'll persevere with Outlook for the time being as it's a real fag changing E mail addresses.

Carole

[Mike]

I presume you are doing everything in a browser window in which case you will be limited. Use an email client such as Thunderbird.

[Carole]

Yeah, I know it's not strictly Windows, but it's not astronomical, so moved to PC Helpline.

http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=10855.0

Sorry, I thought that was where I put it.   

Carole

[Rick]

No big deal. I'm also wondering whether to split the thread about the last imaging session to move the practical post-session discussion out of "Behind the Scenes" into "Technical"...

[Carole]

Yes might be a good idea Rick.

Carole

[Carole]

Starting to get used to this, but it's still a bit clunky, i.e. you click on something and it takes a while to respond.  Never had this problem with Hotmail.

Carole