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Favorite Windows email tricks and plugins
Merlin Mann | Aug 27 2006
I'm working on an article about email tricks for one of your finer magazines, and -- as you might imagine -- when it comes to the inevitable Windows stuff, I'm a bit light in the useful tips department. So, I turn to you Redmond-using smarties for help. Do you have a favorite application, plugin, trick, or hack for bending Windows email to your will? Double-credit for Outlook add-ons that garden-variety users can install without fancy root-style access. Whence comes your magic Windows fu? 64 Comments
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 This message is in response...Submitted by Tom (not verified) on August 30, 2006 - 3:23pm.
This message is in response to "Huey Says: August 27th, 2006 at 12:10 The first thing I do when sitting down at an XP box is to remove all of the Fisher-Price My First OS stuff and set all of the preferences back to ‘Windows Classic’. The second thing I do is install VirtuaWin ( http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ ), because I can’t do real work without more than one screen’s worth of real estate. A window manager that spans more than one screen is something that *nixes have had for twenty years now - why can’t Microsoft get this one right? " They have virtual windows which works nicely: Virtual Desktop Manager at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx » POSTED IN:
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