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Remove Outlook Autologin

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Remove Outlook Autologin

Outlook 2010/2007

  • Launch Outlook 2010
  • Select Accounts Settings… under the Account Settings icon.
  • Under the E-mail tab, select the email account you want to edit and click Change…
  • Click More Settings…
  • Click the Security tab.
  • Check the Always prompt for logon credentials option.
  • Click OK to close the pop up window.

Creating Outlook HTML Email Templates

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Step 1: Creating your HTML template

You should create your HTML email template as you would any normal HTML page. The rules are relatively straight-forward for this. Use tables and nested tables like you would for a 1998 era web-page. No background images, limited CSS. The cool, fancy stuff you can do with CSS3 is out.

Step 2: Getting your template into Outlook

Once you’ve built your email template as an HTML document with all of its images and styles you’ll need to open that HTML template in Internet Explorer. Once you have it displaying in IE you’ll need to send it to Outlook. You can do this by opening IE’s File menu and selecting Send. Hovering the Send option will give you the option of sending it as an email. Clicking this will open your new template in an Outlook Email window.

Step 3: Saving your template

First you must File > Save. Wait, you’re not done. Once you’ve saved the email you can then save the email template. Now you must File > Save As. Select the save as Outlook Template option in the selection list that appears in the dialogue that opens. You have now saved your template and can now use it.

To use an email message template, do the following:

  1. On the Home tab, in the New group, click New Items, point to More Items, and then Choose Form.
  2. In the Choose Form dialog box, in Look In, click User Templates in File System.
  3. The default templates folder is opened. The folder location (in Windows Vista and later operating systems) is c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates. If your template is saved in a different folder, click Browse, and then select the template.
  4. Select the template, and then click Open.
  5. Make any additions or revisions to the recipients in the To, Cc, or Bcc boxes. You can also change the text in the Subject box and add contents to the message body.

    6. Note: Changes made aren’t saved to the template. If you use the Save command, this creates a draft of your message, but won’t update the template. To update the template, follow the steps for saving a new template in Create an email message template.

  6. Click Send.

Can’t type in Windows 10 search bar or any other screen except IE

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We had a few issues where client could not type into the search bar in Cortana, skype or other apps BUT could use Edge and IE. This baffled us for a while as we changed keyboards & reloaded machines all to no avail.

After some research, we discovered that a bad windows update or a program installed can damage some files. Here is what we use to fix these issues:

If any of these functions like Start Menu, Settings, Search, Cortana, Microsoft Edge, Action Center and other Windows components are not responding, follow these below methods and check if it helps: 

Method 1:

  • Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard, select Command prompt (admin).
  • Enter the below commands one by one and hit Enter key.

    PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

  • It will open the PowerShell window.
  • Now enter the below command and hit Enter key.

    Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers |Where-Object {$_.InstallLocation -like “*SystemApps*”} | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register “$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml”}

If the issue still persist, follow the below method.

Method 2:

  • Open the Task manager.  Here’s a tip:  Press CTRL+Shift+ESC.
  • Click File > Run New Task
  • Make sure you have a check mark beside “Create this task with administrative privileges”
  • Type Powershell
  • Type the following in the Powershell prompt:
    $manifest = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + ‘\AppxManifest.xml’ ; Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $manifest
  • Close the Powershell window
  • Reboot the computer and check if it helps.

Turn off Windows Programs on Startup

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When loading applications, they sometimes load parts of the program every time you start windows – these apps can slow your machine down when running applications, make startup very slow and at times cause ads to appear.

Its easy to turn off such apps and speed up your computer:

Windows 10

  1. Right click anywhere on the TASK bar at the bottom of the screen
  2. LEFT click on the TASK MANAGER Menu Item
  3. Click the STARTUP Tab – if you do not see the startup tab, on the bottom click MORE DETAILS to show
  4. Select each program you do not want to run and click the DISABLE button – – in our many years experience, you can uncheck ALL except antivirus.
Right Click on Task bar and select TASK MANAGER

 

Select Each App you want removed and press DISABLE

 

Windows up to 8

  1. Click START
  2. CLICK RUN
  3. Type: MSCONFIG and press ENTER
  4. Click on the tab STARTUP
  5. You will see multiple programs – you can UNCHECK each app you do not want to run – in our many years experience, you can uncheck ALL except antivirus.