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Recover Emails from Emptied Deleted Items Folder of MS Outlook

August 07, 2012 Add Comment

Recover Emails from Emptied Deleted Items Folder of MS Outlook



Emptying the ‘Deleted Items’ folder of your Outlook, is always a good practice. By doing so, you erase all unnecessary Outlook item and thus, make it light and neat. However, there can be times when after completing a regular cleanup of your ‘Deleted Items’ folder, you realize that you have deleted an important email. 

Well, don’t panic even in such situation! Your deleted data remains on your Exchange Server for a certain period after emptying the ‘Deleted Items’ folder. The time period for which your deleted item data remains on your Exchange Server is called ‘Retention Period’; and it depends upon the settings made by your Exchange administrator. Therefore, if your deleted emails are under retention period then you can recover them easily through simple recovery steps.

Steps that are involved to recover email items from empty Deleted Items folder are as follows:

Select ‘Deleted Items’ folder.
Go to Tools and select ‘Recover Deleted Items’
A window displaying all emails deleted from the ‘Deleted Items’ folder, which are under the retention period opens.
If you find your emails there, then select these emails from this list to recover and click ‘Recover Selected Items’ and they will be back in your ‘Deleted Items’ folder.

However, if you cannot see your deleted emails in this list, then the retention period must have crossed. Well, at such situation, using an efficient third-party deleted email recovery software can do the needful. Reliable email recover tool recovers your emails even after they have exceeded their retention period. Moreover, effective tool restores the formatting of RTF and HTML messages after recovery and recovers emails with their complete attachments.

One such software is Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery. This proficient software recovers lost or deleted emails from MS Outlook as well as MS Outlook Express. The tool recovers deleted emails, attachments, contacts, notes, etc. This software is one of the risk free tools as it recovers deleted emails intact without changing their formatting or causing damage to the original data. Moreover, the software provides a list of all recoverable emails after completion of the scan. You can select any specific email from this list and see its preview at the bottom of this interface. With all these features, the software maintains a log report. This log report records the entire information of all the tasks performed during the recovery process and even lets you save this report at any desired location in your system.

Scheduling meetings with Outlook

March 28, 2012 Add Comment

Scheduling meetings with Outlook


Remember the old days of scheduling meetings? Depending on the number of people involved, it might have taken weeks of email back and forth, with people listing available times that were no longer available by the time you'd heard from everyone else.  Generally a big pain.  Well, Outlook can make this so much easier!

If all meeting attendees use Exchange AND if attendees actually maintain an accurate online calendar (a big "if" sometimes, depending on your group) then it's easy to see what times are available to meet.  No need to grant special access to your calendar.  Schedulers don't need to be able to see what you are doing, only if you are free or busy.  

Here are the steps for creating a meeting using Outlook and viewing free/busy times:

  1. Open your Outlook calendar and choose File -> New -> Meeting Request
  2. Enter names or email address of all attendees in the "to" line.  Be sure the name resolves to the correct email address.  Some folks have @email.uky.edu addresses, others use @uky.edu addresses, and others have set up a Universal Email Address.  All may work for receiving email, but not for scheduling info.  If you have trouble finding scheduling info for one style address, try another.
  3. Set the date/time for an approximate meeting date.
  4. Click the "Scheduling Assistant" button to view free/busy times:





Busy times show up with a purple bar, free times are open, and tentative appointments are hashed.  If you do have access to view a person's calendar details, you will see appointment details (text in the bars). Otherwise, just shaded bars to indicate free/busy times.


  • Use the "Suggested Times" pane to see which time blocks are available to most attendees, or just scan the free/busy times on the grid until you find a good time.  If you use the grid, you can click on the time you want to set it for the meeting. Hover over the red end time line and click/drag to adjust the meeting duration.
  • Once you've selected a time, click the "Appointment" button to get back to the message screen to add text to the meeting request and send the invitation.




Tip:  Sometimes, even if I'm not going to use Outlook to create a meeting request, I might still use this method to just see if someone is available!  Go through steps 1-5 and just look at the free/busy grid but don't actually send the meeting request.

Another Tip: If you have a meeting across campus and need travel time, you might add a "meeting buffer" to your calendar, since that is time that you are unavailable for other appointments.

Yet Another Tip:  Attendees don't use their online calendars, or some attendees are not from UK and don't have access to Exchange?  Try Doodle!  Doodle is a free web-based scheduling assistant.  Specify possible meeting times and generate an email link attendees can use to fill in their availability.  Doodle even has time-zone support, to convert to local times.

Final Tip:  If you're a UK person, please use your Outlook calendar!  You'll find it useful personally, and it's also a real time-saver for people you collaborate with.

What to do? recover emails does not work !

March 17, 2012 Add Comment
What to do? recover emails does not work !


I am aware of the fact that keeping unnecessary files on Outlook mailbox only increases the size of the PST file which leads to problems like slow performance of Outlook, PST file corruption, etc. Therefore, I delete all the unwanted emails permanently from the mailbox of my MS Outlook 2007 on a regular basis. Another day while deleting emails, I accidentally deleted some most important emails. I realized the problem after giving command for hard (permanent) deletion of the selected emails. Though I performed some measures to over come this situation but none of them worked. However, I didn’t lose hope and used third-party deleted email recovery software and recovered all my deleted emails.

Let me explain the entire episode by which I learnt about software to recover deleted emails. That time attending an important client call was more important than concerning the deleted email issue thus I kept this matter of email loss from Outlook mailbox aside for sometime. The client call stretched to three long hours and soon after its completion, I forgot about email loss and rushed to home as it was already too late. Coming next day to office, while I was opening my system recalled that I deleted some important emails yesterday. I searched over the Internet for some inbuilt utility of Microsoft by which we can recover deleted emails and I was right, there was a way to recover recently deleted emails.

Though this procedure works only for recently deleted emails but still I tried below mentioned Microsoft prescribed steps to recover deleted emails:
Start MS Outlook 2007
Select the folder from which you have deleted the emails as I selected the Inbox folder from the left pane of my Outlook mailbox.
Go to Tools → Recover Deleted Items. A window that displays the deleted emails from the selected folder appears. I didn’t get this window. So, I terminated the process. However, if you are getting this window then select the emails which you want to recover and click ‘Recover Selected Items’ option.
All the selected emails will be selected to its original location as soon as you select ‘Recover Deleted Items’ option.

Since, I didn’t delete the mails recently and also got so many emails after the deletion thus aforementioned steps didn’t work for me. In such situation, without losing hope I searched over the Internet for some resolution by which I can recover deleted emails and learnt that there are third-party tools which can recover emails which are deleted long ago.

One of the awards winning and user recommended tools which I found in this category was Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery. This software efficiently recovers deleted emails, attachments, notes, and contacts and has very interactive user interface. Therefore, I used this software and recovered all the deleted emails.

Outlook Express Error

August 18, 2009 Add Comment

Outlook Express Error Codes 0x800CCC0D and 0x800CCC0E


When trying to send or receive mail in Outlook Express you may get one or both of the following errors:
The information will vary to match your mail settings and user account name.

The host ‘mail.verizon.net’ could not be found. Please verify that you have entered server name correctly. Account:”accountname”, Server ‘mail.verizon.net’; protocol: POP3, Port:110 Secure(SSL):No, Socket Error:11001,Error Number 0x800CCC0D.

The connection to the server has failed. Account: ‘mail.verizon.net’, Server: mail.verizon.net, Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

There may be a few reasons for these types of errors to occur.

The easiest thing to try is to close Outlook, reopen it and try again.

You can also check your mail settings by going to Tools, Accounts then the Mail tab and select your account and click on Properties. Verify that the information is correct. Sometimes your mail provider will change their mail server or port number and not tell you. Most of the time you can go to their website to find the latest mail server information.

Make sure that your username and password are correct as well. Try retyping your password to see if that helps.

Next you can telnet to your mail server to make sure you are getting a connection to help you see if its Outlook or your mail server that may be causing the problem. Open a command prompt by going to Start, Run and typing in cmd and clicking Ok. From the prompt type in the following: telnet mail.verizon.net 110 but change mail.verizon.net to your mail server and make sure you are using port 110 and if not, change it to match. You can find the port number in Outlook under accounts and then the Advanced tab.

If the telnet test works successfully it should give you an OK message. Then one last thing you can try is to delete your account from Outlook and set it up from scratch again in case something has become corrupted. Make sure to write down all of your settings before doing so.

Spam Mails Big Burden now days

February 01, 2008 Add Comment

Spam Mails Big Burden now days


You probably know that Spam is unsolicited and undesired e-mail message. Spammers are the people who send Spam. Spam is a serious problem. It is important today as never before because almost every other email message we receive is Spam. So, the question arises how spammers get your email address and why they send you Spam. Spammers can obtain your email address in three ways.

One way is to guess a mailbox name for a publicly listed domain name. Many organizations have the email addresses where the first part of the email address is a general word such as “info”, “sales”, “accounts”, “support”, etc. People often use the email addresses beginning with their first name, for example, John, Sandra, Julia. Spammers simply put the first names before the @ symbol followed by a domain name, and get possible email addresses.

Secondly, spammers can gather email addresses from the Internet. They use programs that search web pages looking for email addresses. If there is your contact email address in your web site, or if the email address is embedded into your profile, your email address will be obtained by spammers.

The third way to get your email address is to buy email lists. Some dishonest companies can make money by selling the customer’s information to spammers. Spammers can also bribe unscrupulous employees of companies to get a copy of the email list.

Once spammers got a list of the victims’ email addresses, they start spamming. They do it to make money. In general, there are two kinds of spam messages:



1.Offering trashy and fraudulent goods or services (e.g. Viagra, Cialis, medications, fake Rolexes, software programs, etc.)

2.Stock scams working on “Pump and dump” schemes. Spammers encourage you to invest in a particular company's stock, in order to quickly inflate its value and enable the spammers to make a fast profit.



By sending their undesired messages spammers have for an object to contact thousands or even millions people in the hope to hit one or a few dolts who actually will buy their crappy products. No dolts, no spam. But out of a million people, you will always find one or two.

Most of the Internet protocols that computers use to talk to each other are anonymous. Your email server thinks that any email server connecting to it over the Internet is giving its name properly and that the email it sends is legitimate. Spammers abuse this trust relationship to send you their garbage. The Internet protocols cannot be changed in a moment so we need another solution to the problem of spam.

Legislative attempts produced no effect. It’s not easy to track a spammer located in USA sending spam using a mail server from Russia to mailboxes in Australia. Spammers are also known to use Trojans to hijack one’s computer and make that person send spam on behalf of the spammer. The “victim” doesn’t even guess about it. These people would be caught up in any comprehensive Spam legislation.

However that may be you can take some measures to protect your inbox against spam flow by yourself. There is a wide choice of anti-spam products available on the Internet. You only have to choose the right one to block Spam before it reaches your inbox. There is no guarantee that you will get absolutely no Spam but at least you will reduce its amount.

Remove and Uninstall Windows Messenger

January 10, 2006 Add Comment

Remove and Uninstall Windows Messenger


Windows Messenger is an instant messaging program that built-in to Windows XP, and thus, comes shipped with each and every copy of Microsoft Windows XP operating system. There is also a Windows Messenger service built-in in Windows XP that helps produce pop up ads via IP addresses. The two programs are completely different and separate though they have almost the same name.

Windows Messenger will loaded whenever you boot up your Windows XP PC or launches Outlook Express, Outlook or Remote Assistance that have been tightly integrated with Windows Messenger. Luckily, the Windows Messenger chat program can be removed and uninstalled.

To Uninstall Windows Messenger from Windows XP (without Service Pack 1)

To check if you have Service Pack 1 installed, go to Start -> Control Panel -> System. On the General tab, under System, checks if the words “Service Pack 1″ are listed. If it’s there, your system has Microsoft Windows Service Pack 1.

1) Make sure Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Windows Messenger and other programs are not running, or else stop them. Note that the Windows Messenger must be unloaded from system tray too.
2) Click on Start -> Run.
3) Cut and paste the following command into the Run text line:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

4) Click on OK.

To Uninstall Windows Messenger from Windows XP (with Service Pack 1)

To check if you have Service Pack 1 installed, go to Start, the right click on My Computer and click on Properties. On the General tab, under System, checks if the words “Service Pack 1″ are listed. If it’s there, your system has Microsoft Windows Service Pack 1.

1) Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs.
2) Select Add/Remove Windows Components.
3) Uncheck Windows Messenger.
4) Click Next.
5) Click Finish.
6) Restart the computer.

After uninstall Windows Messenger, a long delay will occurs when opening Outlook Express if you have the Contacts pane enabled. To prevent the long delay when opening Outlook Express, use the following instructions:

1) Click Start -> Run.
2) Type REGEDIT into the command link and press Enter.
3) In REGEDIT, go to the following registry location by clicking on the Pluses (+) next to the said items:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express

4) Right click in the right pane and select New, Dword value. Enter Hide Messenger as the name of the new registry key.
5) Double click (or right click and then click modify) this new (Hide Messenger) registry entry and set the value to 2.
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