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Favorite Windows email tricks and plugins

Submitted by Merlin on August 27, 2006 - 5:39am.

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?

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The first thing I do...

Submitted by Huey (not verified) on August 27, 2006 - 8:10am.

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?