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email retention

Does anyone know how long messages are retained on Outlook.com? My email is at a personal domain, if that makes a difference. I download messages to Office Outlook. How long are messages retained in Office Outlook?

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Folder names – bold or not

Some of my folder names are bold and some are not. How do I change them from one to the other? How do I creaste a new folder with the name in one or the other at the time of creation?

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Hotmail HACKED!! NEED HELP!!!

Hi My facebook and hotmail were hacked and my passwords and secret questions were changed and so I cannot access any of my accounts the hacker changed all of the information. I have not used my hotmail account since 2010 …

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Problems with Outlook inbox

I keep getting a popup message that my messages are in my POP folder (I don't even know what the POP folder is). When I try to fix it by clicking on "Change settings" I get a message saying "Sorry, there seems to be a pr …

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how do i create a still photo from a video?

In moviemaker, I was able to take a snapshot of a video clip that I'd like to use in a print publication. How do I access the .png file or save it as a .jpg or whatever I need to do to save the image apart from the video …

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anonymous file sharing via GetLink and file metadata

Hi, #1 - Since I use an anonymous screen name in forums et al - I wrote up a document that I want to share anonymously in the MS Communities. When I "Get Link" for a file that I share in Public Folder and then send that …

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font changes in outlook email

Can the tech-support person give me an address to send a test email to? If I post it here, with three different fonts appearing in a brief email I sent after I'd verified that both the font of the body of the message and …

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Can I darken the font colour in outlook.com?

I have seen this question posted last year, but wanted to see if there is an updated answer. The standard colour scheme is very difficult to read on a laptop and it can't be that difficult for Microsoft to allow users to …

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I cant access my main email address

I cant access my main email address wich has all my important emails from university's and colleges for next year i use to access it on my phone my laptop and some differant computers from my school i answered the online …

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Where are my old Hotmail emails?

I was looking for some old mails earlier and noticed that they're gone. I've been active on my hotmail account and I have mails dating back at least 6 years that have just disappeared. This is extremely frustrating as I …

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OULOOK TEAM (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***)

Received email from OULOOK TEAM (*** Email address is removed for privacy ***) "We wish to bring to your attention that your Microsoft Window Records will be Permanently suspended within the next 48hours due to failure t …

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Server Error 5102 Live Mail Error ID:0x8DE00002

3 days ago I received a Server Error 5102 Live Mail Error ID:0x8DE00002. It has persisted even though I created a new Hotmail account which allowed me to send and receive messages for about 1 hour. Now I am back to squar …

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Janet

3 days ago I received a Server Error 5102 Live Mail Error ID:0x8DE00002. It has persisted even though I created a new Hotmail account which allowed me to send and receive messages for about 1 hour. Now I am back to squar …

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Skydrive won’t download last few files to MacBook Pro

Hi, I am running skydrive on my Macbook Pro it has synced 10gb of data (eventually) but won't sync the last 31.7MB (2 files). Also there seems to be no way to see what files have been synced and what is outstanding. Plea …

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Lost email and Folders

I have just logged into the hotmail account which I set up in my maiden name. This account had a mail forwarding set up to ensure that all mail was sent to the hotmail account in my married name. On logging in tonight th …

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LOST EMAILS AFTER TRYING TO CLOSE AN OLD ACCOUNT

right, so this is what happened. I logged into my old hotmail account. I went to account settings. I clicked on close account. The page reloaded where i was prompted to enter my password to verify it was me. Once I had d …

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