The New Hotmail

In 2007, Microsoft has progressively rolled out the new version of Hotmail, "Windows Live Hotmail". Hotmail was completely re-designed, and plenty of new features were introduced. We will start our series of tutorials by clarifying the various email programs and webmail services, whose naming leads to confusion. Discover the New Hotmail.

The next tutorial will show you how to open an account with Hotmail, and guide you through the various steps, from registration to picking a Hotmail user name. In all, setting up a Hotmail account should take you no longer than five minutes. We will also discuss the "Hotmail Plus" option MSN offers, which allows you to view your emails from a browser without having to see the ads normally displayed in Hotmail's various screens. Create your Hotmail email account.

Hotmail's Standard Folders

Your Windows Live Hotmail account comes with five built-in, or "standard", folders. Each of these email folders perform a very specific task, central to the Hotmail webmail service; as such, these folders cannot be deleted or renamed. The following tutorials will in turn introduce each of the five standard Hotmail folders: the Inbox, the Junk, Drafts, Sent, and Deleted folders.

Custom Hotmail Folders

In addition to the standard folders, Hotmail lets you create your own folders. This is especially useful to organize your email messages in a manageable way, using your own system. Custom folders can also, very efficiently, be used in conjunction with Hotmail's "filters", or email rules, that enable you to automatically distribute emails into folders, based on preliminary conditions you set out.

Create a folder | Rename a folder | Empty a folder | Delete a folder

Manage Your Hotmail Contacts

Contacts are central to Hotmail; you email contacts, receive emails from potential contacts, etc. Hotmail is also an ideal online repository for your relatives, friends, and colleagues' information. In fact, using your Hotmail contacts as address book is a great idea, since they are available anywhere you have access to the Internet. This series of tutorials helps you manage your Hotmail contacts.

Add a sender as contact | Create a new contact | Edit contacts' information | Delete a contact

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