Attachment size exceeds the allowable limit" error when you add a large attachment to an email message in Outlook 2010

Internet email account (POP3, IMAP, HTTP)

To modify the default attachment limit size in Outlook 2010 for an Internet email account, follow these steps:

1. Exit Outlook.
2. Start Registry Editor.
3. Locate and then select one of the following registry subkeys:
   
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preferences
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Preferences
   
   
   Note Manually create the path in the registry if it does not currently exist.
4. Add the following registry data under this subkey:
   
   
   Value type: DWORD
   Value name: MaximumAttachmentSize
   Value data: An integer that specifies the total maximum allowable attachment size. For example, specify 30720 (Decimal) to configure a 30-MB limit.
   Notes
   • Specify a value of zero (0) if you want to configure no limit for attachments.
   • Specify a value that is less than 20 MB if you want to configure a limit that is less than the default 20 MB.
5. Exit Registry Editor
6. Start Outlook.

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Here’s how to disable FireFox’s browser cache completely.

1. Fire up FireFox
2. Type about:config in your address bar
3. Type ‘cache’ in the search bar, and look for network.http.use-cache, and double click it to set it to false. Double clicking it again will set it to true and re-enable the cache

…and then you’re done.

To forcibly reload a page and all its dependencies, direct from source, ignoring local and proxy caches hold the shift key and hit reload. This applies not only to FireFox but also IE6/7 and Safari (maybe others too). I have a feeling this may be a ratified standard.

This has also been suggested

I set browser.cache.disk.enable and browser.cache.memory.enable both to false.

That was all I had to do to disable caching.

Windows Setup gives an error message that the Product Key is not valid (invalid) if you attempt an upgrade or repair Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition or with Microsoft Windows XP Professional.

Programmable Key Restrictor

This script blocks the input of characters by using a Javascript function attached an input box which is called with the event onkeydown="" . This allows me to prevent input issues with end users because they cannot enter the wrong charcters in the first place. This script is standalone but works well with HTML5 input box validation rules.

I wrote this after I could not get any scripts I found online to work reliable across browsers. I also wanted to be able to make it programmable to account for different types of key restriction I wanted to do. I have use the onkeydown="" event because I believe the the onkeypress="" event only handles printable characters.

The following validators are basically the same with different options and can be programmed for any type of character validation you want including special characters. This script is using the new standard of event.key which with a few tweaks is usable across all of the different browsers. event.key outputs the character that is pressed on the keyboard and not some charcode which varies from browser to browser and platform to platform. event.key is the recommended way of getting key presses in browsers.

As you can see I have used feeder functions to supply the event, you do not need to use them you can create your own and the process is very straight forward. Allowed Characters and whether space is allowed. This prevents a lot of duplicate code as the common function is quite long. You could use the function as a stndalone is you remove the feeder functions and replace them with variables as needed.

Function Call in HTML

<input class="olotd5" value="123456" name="zip" type="text" onkeydown="return onlyAlphaNumeric(event);"/>

The Script

/** Key Input Restrictions - Using event.key **/

// Allows Only Letters
function onlyAlpha(e) {
    return keyRestriction(e, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ", true);
}

// Allow Only Numbers and Letters
function onlyAlphaNumeric(e) {
    return keyRestriction(e, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789", true);
}

// Allow Only Numbers and Letters - Including Comma, Backslash, Minus, Single Quote
function onlyAlphaNumericExtra(e) {
   return keyRestriction(e, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789,/-'", true);
}

// Allows Only Numbers
function onlyNumbers(e) {
    return keyRestriction(e, "0123456789", false);
}

// Allows Only Numbers and Period
function onlyNumbersPeriod(e) {
    return keyRestriction(e, "0123456789.", false);
}

// Allow Only Phone Numbers - Including Period, Brackets, Plus, Minus
function onlyPhoneNumber(e) {
    return keyRestriction(e, "0123456789.()-+", true);
}

// Allow Only valid characters for URL
function onlyURL(e) {
   return keyRestriction(e, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-._~:/?#[]@!$&'()*+,;=`%", false);
}

// Allow Only valid characters for Email
function onlyEmail(e) {
   return keyRestriction(e, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789-._@", false);
}

// Common Function for Key Input Restriction
function keyRestriction(e, allowedCharacters, spacesAllowed) {    
    
    // Grab the character from the pressed key
    var key = e.key;   
    
    // Are Spaces Allowed?
    if (key === ' ' && spacesAllowed === true)
        return true;
    
    // Are Spaces Allowed (IE fix)
    if (key === 'Spacebar' && spacesAllowed === true)
        return true;
    
    // Control Keys (Backspace, End, Home, Left Arrow, Up Arrow, Right Arrow, Down Arrow, Delete)
    if (key === 'Backspace' || key === 'End' || key === 'Home' || key === 'ArrowLeft' || key === 'ArrowUp' || key === 'ArrowRight' || key === 'ArrowDown' || key === 'Delete')       
        return true;

    // Control Keys (IE and Edge fix)
    if (key === 'Left' || key === 'Up' || key === 'Right' || key === 'Down' || key === 'Del')       
        return true;
    
    // Allowed Characters
    else if (allowedCharacters.indexOf(key) > -1)
        return true;
    else
        return false;
    
}

Notes

• Control Keys - This is where you can allow keys by using charCodes. This is ideal for special keys and non-printable characters like delete.
• Allowed Characters - Add any characters you want to be allowed into the group. It is case sensitive.

Tools

• Javascript Char Codes (Key Codes) - Cambia Research - This tool allows you to press a button and get the charCode of that key. There is also a list of charCodes
• KeyboardEvent Value (keyCodes, metaKey, etc) | CSS-Tricks - A list of charCodes and a link to a tool for getting charCodes. The tool is special key aware i.e. presing a key with Alt or Shift.
• Pen event.keyCode tester - by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen. - This tester is modifier key aware i.e. Shift and Alt keys.
• Keyboard Event Viewer - Gary Kačmarčík has put together a fantastic demo for visualizing all the attributes associated with KeyboardEvents: Load your browser of choices and press some buttons. All the corresponding events will be shown in a chart as they happen. This is great for seeing browser incompatibilities or differences so you can fix your scripts.

Libraries

• hotkeys - A robust Javascript library for capturing keyboard input and key combinations entered. It has no dependencies.
• keysight | GitHub - A translator for javascript keyboard events to and from consistent and familiar character and key representations. Take your keydown, keypress, and keyup events and reliably translate them into keyboard keys and characters. Its lightweight at 1.06KB minified and gzipped.

onkeypress vs onkeydown vs onkeyup

These javascript events have different roles and can have different outcomes with different browsers. In newer browsers the behavious seems a lot more standard.

• onlyAlphaNumeric() does not work in Firefox so you have to use onlyAlphaNumeric(event)
• onkeypress="" is case sensitive
  • causes a lot of special Keys to return a value of 0. This is very flacky and a known bug.
• onkeydown="" is case insensitive
• onKeydown="" has information about the TshiftState and OnKeyPress doesn't, Whether I want to take action for example, if the A key is pressed, depends on whether ssCtrl or ssAlt are combined with it,
• These codes are used to try and get scripts cross browser compliant.
  • var key = e.which || e.keyCode; // Use either which or keyCode, depending on browser support
  • var charCode = (evt.charCode) ? evt.which : event.keyCode
    The notes sayYou should change e.keyCode to e.charCode. -->  String.fromCharCode(e.charCode) , I have not verified this.
  • var charCode = (evt.charCode) ? evt.charCode : ((evt.keyCode) ? evt.keyCode : ((evt.which) ? evt.which : 0));
• KeyCode is 0 - This is caused by browser incompatibility with that particular function. It is also caused by a not printable character being called via onkeypress
• KeyBoardEvents.key - seems to be the same as event.key
• Mottie (CSS-TRICKS) says The charCode, keyCode and which are being deprecated. They will soon be replaced by event.key which will return named keys. This post inspired me to write my script using event.key
• keypress (CSS-TRICKS) does not contain values for special characters. This might of changed in newer browsers but could still be true.
• This fixed a big problem - I changed all onkeypress to onkeydown and this caused Google Chrome to work. This implies a bug if you have both onkeypress and onkeydown events on a page. Quirk? This fixed event.key, so do not use these on the same page. This fixes the issue for both chrome and firefox.
• To get the event passed properly in FireFox you must pass with the function triggered in the HTML by using the varible 'event' giving onlyAlphaNumeric(event) otherwise the script will only work in Chrome.

Links

• What’s New with KeyboardEvents? Keys and Codes!  |  Web  |  Google Developers - A well written article on this subject. It also includes references to the execellent tool 'Keyboard Event Viewer'
• KeyboardEvent keyCode Property - A simple description from w3schools including referencing cross browser support code
• UI Events | W3C Working Draft - This draft explains various javascript functions and their upcoming changes but in particular it says "The keydown and keyup events are traditionally associated with detecting any key, not just those which produce a character value."
• Converting keystrokes gathered by onkeydown into characters in JavaScript - Stack Overflow - A nice description about keypress, keydown, keyup events.
• KeyboardEvent.key - Web APIs | MDN - The information sheet from Mozilla on the function KeyboardEvent.key
• Key Values - Web APIs | MDN - The text values for KeyBoardEvents.key
• onKeyPress vs OnKeyDown vs OnKeyUp | The ASP.NET Forums - A very clear table of the differences between the events and what you should use them for.
• javascript - onKeyPress Vs. onKeyUp and onKeyDown - Stack Overflow - A discussion on the subject.
• KeyboardEvent.keyCode - Web APIs | MDN - this information page from mozilla tells you that the function .keyCode is deprecated and that this function should not use this when handling printable cahracters using keydown or keyup.

Legacy Key Restrictors

These are some basic key restrictors that some people use but they are not very cross browser compatible. According to Mottie (CSS-TRICKS) e.which and e.keycode are getting discontinued. I have included these here for reference to see how it was done in the past.

Function Call in HTML

<input class="olotd5" value="123456" name="zip" type="text" onkeydown="return onlyAlphaNumeric(event);"/>

Allows Only Uppercase and Lowercase Letters to be entered - Including Space

// Allows Only Uppercase and Lowercase Letters to be entered - Including Space
function onlyAlpha(e) {
    
    var charCode = e.which || e.keyCode; 
    
    if ((charCode === 32 || charCode >= 65 && charCode <= 90) || (charCode >= 97 && charCode <= 122)){
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Allows Only Numbers to be entered - Including Backspace and some other keys

// Allows Only Numbers to be entered - Including Backspace and some other keys
function onlyNumbers(e) {
    
    var charCode = e.which || e.keyCode;
    
    if (charCode > 31 && (charCode < 48 || charCode > 57)){
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

Links

• Online example of this legacy code

use single quotes unless escaping characters

Article 1

I don’t write about PHP very often — this is the first time since the launch one year ago. However, I do quite a lot of work with PHP and relational databases such as MySQL. Almost every single time I review someone else’s work a common error related to using strings in PHP is made. Misunderstanding the way of defining strings in PHP is often the cause of many hours of debugging as well. If you are relatively new to programming and PHP you’ll most likely recognize this situation.

PHP lets you define strings using single quote, double quotes or heredoc. There’s a crucial difference between the first two and for some reason many people new to PHP start using double quotes. Hopefully the following explanation will save a couple of hours debugging for the starters among us.

The most important difference between the two is that a string enclosed in double quotes is parsed by PHP. This means that any variable in it will be expanded.

echo $var; // Results in the value of $var being printed
echo '$var'; // Results in the word '$var'
echo "$var"; // Results in the value of $var being printed

This means that concatenating strings can be done in two different ways as well.

$var = 'Ipsum';

echo 'Lorem ' . $var; // Results in 'Lorem Ipsum'
echo "Lorem $var"; // Results in 'Lorem Ipsum'

This possibly isn’t anything new to you, but if you are working with HTML you can output valid markup while keeping your code readable. Using double quotes in a string enclosed with single quotes requires no escaping and vica versa. Using a double quote in a string enclosed in double quotes (idem for single quotes) does require escaping, which —in my opinion— degrades readability tremendously.

$text = 'Lorem Ipsum';
$uri = 'http://www.lipsum.com';

echo '<a href="' . $uri . '">' . $text . '</a>';
echo "<a href=\"$uri\">$text</a>";

Personally, I always stick to using single quotes and the dot syntax to concatenate strings, unless I need special characters such as new lines. Whatever you use is up to you, but hopefully this heads-up cleared a lot of confusion and puts an end to unreadible code and markup using single quotes.

Not to mention... using " " where not needed, is just wasting processing, potentially even slowing down your website, if it's as big as say deviantART =P, since PHP has to try to parse something that does not need parsing...

Using single quotes where possible results in nominally faster execution, but we're talking fractions of milliseconds.

As with double quotes, you can escape single quotes in a string enclosed in single quotes as well. I agree that backlashes make it unreadable, but in a rare occassion I use it.

echo 'Hi, how are you? I\'m fine.'; // Single quotes
echo "Hi, how are you? I'm fine."; // Double quotes

Depending on the situation I might deviate and opt to use double quotes instead.

Article 2

The advantage to using single quotes is that you don't need to escape any double quotes in your code, which makes it neater.

However, using double quotes would allow you to place variables inside without having to escape them.

$variable = 'moo';
// This will work.
echo "Double Quotes. $variable";
// This wont.
echo 'Single Quotes. $variable';

I prefer using single quotes, as it makes echo'd HTML (the php code) look neater. My opinion, of course. :P

is 7 times faster than

Which method you choose is entirely personal, but I use 'apostrophes' to mark my strings instead of "quotes". The downside is that I must break my string in order to include a variable in it.

I do this for two reason. First, my code editor makes variables inserted in a string bold only if I break the string around them. This makes them easier to spot when I'm troubleshooting or testing. Secondly, it allows me to paste properly validated HTML into my echos and prints without having to escape all of the quotations.

You face a small inconvenience either way, but with my method, they are fewer in number.

Single quotes versus double quotes is a huge issue in PHP. Nobody seems to understand what sort of problems they run in to using double-quotes when they arn't needed.

When you use double quotes, you are asking PHP to parse through the string and search for possible variable matches and escaping characters (like \n).

This is obviously a slow process. Do you think it'd be faster to read a book looking for a secret clue in every 4 words, or to simply read it straight through? Same difference.

If you arn't using escaping characters, it is pointless to use double quotes unless your goal is to make your application slower. Here are a few examples to demonstrate:
 

$wtf = 'is';
$output = "My name $wtf monokrome"; // This is SLOW.
$output = 'My name ' . $wtf . ' monokrome'; // This is much more efficient.

$wtf = 'google';
  // This is the only sort of time where you ever really need double quoted strings.
$output = '<a href="http://google.com">' . $wtf . "</a>\n"; // Notice the newline(\n)?

As for the array keys being used as $_POST[name], of course that's slow. When you do that, PHP is trying to determine name as a keyword. Since that keyword doesn't exist, it automatically assumes that you are wanting 'name'. Obviously it's faster to not make PHP make that assumption.

Generally, for most scripts, you aren't going to see the script running slower with double quotes. However, when you get to the point where your code is getting more advanced and doing more things, or if you're deploying the script in a real world environment, that is when you need to cut back on double quotes.

Personally I use single quotes everywhere. Using single quotes plus concatenation is faster than double quotes every time.

This applies to xampp-1.5.3a:
(don’t know about other versions since I only have this one. It works also for xampplite)

Yes, after a fresh install of a xampp program you are welcomed with a xampp pseudo website which is located in <path of xampp installation>/htdocs/xampp/. Clicking security you are given some important points to secure your website. That includes changing the root password. But alas, after changing it you’ll not be given a chance to use the ever-friendly phpMyAdmin.

Find <path of xampp installation>/htdocs/xampp/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ”; // MySQL password

Change this so that it’ll reflect your current mysql password.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = ‘your_password_here‘; // MySQL password

Don’t forget to save it aight?!

Page breaks in HTML

Date created: ~1999

There are several strategies you can use to insert page breaks within an HTML document, thus ensuring that the printed document does not break over lines, graphics, etc. There are limitations, however, and these are listed below.

Limitations

• The page-break styles work with the following block elements: BLOCKQUOTE, BODY, CENTER, DD, DIR, DIV, DL, DT, FIELDSET, FORM, Hn, LI, LISTING, MARQUEE, MENU, OL, P, PLAINTEXT, PRE, UL, XMP.
• Only applicable to Cascading Style Sheets 2 specification
• Only applicable to Internet Explorer 4.x and later at this stage - adding page breaks will not cause any ill effects on other browsers.
• Do NOT try and use within a table - they won't work! See Strategy 6 (below) for breaking a table when printing.

TinyMCE

When you paste from Microsoft Word 2010 page break are represented by

<br style="page-break-before: always;" />

Strategy 1

<style>
.break { page-break-before: always; }
</style>
<body>
content on page 1...
<h1 class="break">text of Heading 1 on page 2</h1>
content on page 2...
<h1 class="break">text of Heading 1 on page 3</h1>
content on page 3...
<p class="break">content on top of page 4</p>
content on page 4...
</body>

Notes about Strategy 1

This example can be part of an external (CSS) or internal style.

Using a class such as .break and not prefacing it with any form of formatting, means that you can add the information wherever you want a page break to occur - including the middle of the text.

Examples:

• If you want the page break to occur before each heading 1, you'd add <h1 class="break"> instead of <h1>. Note that the first <h1>, likely to be on the first page, should probably remain as <h1> and only subsequent <h1>'s need the class attribute.
• If you want to insert a page break part way through the text, then insert <p class= "break">instead of the standard <p> for the text you want to be printed on a new page.

Strategy 2

<style>
h6 {page-break-before: always;}
</style>

Notes about Strategy 2

The reason I used H6 here is that it is a little-used heading for most web pages. By emulating a H1 in font, font size, etc., then adding this code to H6 in addition to the page break information, you can substitute H6 for H1 wherever you want a page break to occur. You can still keep H1 for sections where you don't want to force a page break. Naturally if you want to force a page break at EVERY H1, then you would include the page break information within the H1 style. This strategy can be used with both CSS and internal styles.

Strategy 3

<div style="page-break-before: always">blah blah</div>

Notes about Strategy 3

Make sure you include some text between the <div> opening and closing tags, otherwise this may not work.

Strategy 4

<p style="page-break-before: always">blah blah</p>

Strategy 5

<style>
p.page { page-break-after: always; }
</style>
<body>
content on page 1
<p class="page"></p>
content on page 2
</body>

Notes about Strategy 5

This example can be part of an external (CSS) or internal style.

Strategy 6

......
</tr>
</table>
</center>
</div>

<p class="break"><!--Appendix 2 (continued)--></p>

<div align="center"><center>

[start next table here...]

Notes about Strategy 6

Tables need to be broken in order to force a page break.

In the code in this example, the table has been "chopped" where the break is to occur, a <p> tag inserted with the class attribute added, then the table restarted.

A comment has also been added to alert anybody dealing with the code at a later date that the table is continued.

Links

• https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/page-break/
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21071786/br-style-page-break-after-always-not-working-windows-8-8-1

I am trying to figure out how to add a custom file type to be recognised by Netbeans.

I am editing .tpl files and I would like them to be recognised as PHP/HTML files.

1.Open preferences.
2.Select Miscellaneous tab.
3.Select Files sub-tab thing.
4.Click on New file extension and enter tpl.
5.Select the mime type.
6.Click ok. Done!

Using Windows XP

(© 2008 Lancastrian IT)

The Desktop:

• Desktop – This is your main work area, it is where you access your computer’s function, i.e. running programs, moving files or changing your screen saver.
• Icons – These are pictures that can be moved or placed where the user wants them and if they are double clicked (tapping the left mouse button twice with the cursor over the icon) they will run/open programs that are assigned to them.
• Recycle Bin – This icon opens the recycle bin; this is a hidden folder that contains deleted files. When you delete a file it is put here just in case you deleted it by accident.
• Taskbar – This is the bar normally at the bottom of the screen. When you have more than one program open at the same time the Taskbar will show you what is open. Also, it contains the Start Button and System Tray.
• System Tray – This is a part of the Taskbar where some programs that are running in the background are represented by icons (these cannot be moved) so you can get easy access to change their settings.
• Start Button –When the cursor is moved over the button and the left mouse button is clicked it will reveal a hidden menu consisting of icons relating to programs and computer functions, the Start Menu.
• Start Menu – This is accessed when the Start Button is pressed (clicking the mouse over the button).
• Email – This icon, if clicked will run Outlook Express, your program for sending and receiving email (only single click is required in the Start Menu).
• All Programs – This is another hidden menu but it is within the Start Menu, if clicked on it will show another list of icons, the rest of your computers installed programs, please note that some in the list will have hidden icons, this is shown by a little black arrow and if the cursor is moved over the icon the hidden icons will be displayed.
• Turn Off – This if clicked once will present you with some options; 1-Standby, 2-Turn Off, 3-Restart. Only 2 and 3 should be used, Turn off, if clicked will close all open programs and turn the computer off, the third option (Restart) will also close all open programs and the computer will start to load again as if you had just turned the computer on. For technical reasons, occasionally this is necessary as with Turn Off just click once.

 Sending and Receiving Email:

Starting from the Desktop, click on the Start Button.When the Start Menu pops up click on the Email icon. This will make Outlook Express load and you will see the following window, shown below.

• To Explain a Window if you think of the computer’s Desktop as an actual desk and the windows as different pieces of paper with different information, you can put the papers on top of each other without losing any information and you can put them in any order or anywhere on the desk or desktop. This is the same in XP, by using windows on the desktop you can put the windows anywhere on the desktop and on top of each other without losing information, however instead of hand writing the windows contain different programs. This allows you to use more powerful aspects of the computer and make work or play easier.

Once Outlook Express is open it will either appear in a small window as above or as a full screen window, below, where you can only see that program. The other windows will still be there but they will be underneath the full screen window.

• Folder List – This is where you can swap between sent and received emails by clicking on the name i.e. Inbox – all received emails, Outbox emails waiting to be sent, Sent Items copies of emails that you have sent, Deleted Items – emails that you have deleted (similar to Recycle Bin but for emails) and Drafts – emails that you are writing or have not finished.
• Inbox –This as mentioned holds your mail that you have received and can be selected by clicking the cursor over the writing ‘Inbox’ with the left mouse button (same for the other categories) and to the right of the folder list will appear all the received emails that you have. Unread emails will appear in bold.
• Drop Down Menus – These are hidden menus that drop down to shown extra and advanced functions for this particular program. To get them to drop down just click (left click once) on the menu name.
• Tool Bar – The Tool Bar gives you quick and easy access to some, not all of the programs functions. Usually frequently used actions like sending and receiving emails. The Tool Bar is made up of buttons, like icons but they perform actions within the program rather than running a program and they only require one click. If in doubt of a button’s function if you just move the cursor of the button but do not click it a yellow box will appear with a description of the button.
• Preview Pane – This shows a quick view of the email that is selected. Good for browsing a lot of emails.

 
To send an email you first have to write it, to do this click on Create Email button shown below (Number 1).
 

• Note the Send/Receive button labelled number 2.

 After clicking the Create email button a further window will appear to write your email with, as shown below.

• 1.     To -- This is where you type the email address you want to sendthe message too.
• 2.     CC – Carbon copy. You can send a copy of the email toanotherrecipient without resending the email, to do this just type theiremail address in the CC box.
• 3.     Subject – What it says, the subject of the email i.e. holidays plans for the weekend. Its purpose is to enable the recipient to sort his email quicker.

So type your email message and enter the recipient’s address, then you are ready to send your first email.

Click the send button at the top left of the Email Window, which will now disappear. This will put the email in to the outbox ready to send over the Internet when a connection is available. This allows you to compose emails without being connected through your telephone line to the Internet when it is not necessary.

Once you have finished composing your emails you need to click on the Send/Receive button, which you will find in the toolbar of the main window of Outlook Express. The computer will now start to send and receive your emails. If you are prompted for a response by a new window, just click ok. When you have sent your emails and the computer has finished doing this task, check and make sure that you are no longer connected to the internet by checking in the bottom right of the desktop to see if two ‘flashing TVs’ are present as shown below.

If the TVs are present, you are still connected to the Internet. If this is the case, too disconnect from the Internet right click on the TVs icon and a hidden menu will appear. One of the options is ‘Disconnect’ left click this and you will turn your Internet connection off.

And that’s it, you have now moved round the XP desktop and sent emails. Keep this handout nearby so if you get stuck you can reference too it easily and make using your computer enjoyable rather than a chore.