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Don’t get me started on blinkin’ email. I haven’t been able to receive any for over a week . I can send out but can’t pick up . I know there are messages in my inbox because it tells me so .Also I think I need a new laptop. It is so slow ,by the time it all opens up I have gone out . And the letter Y has fallen OFF the keyboard.. I have tried to put it back but I think I have made it worse . Using ipad at the moment .
I find that Microsoft Outlook is pretty dire, so I use Mozilla 'Thunderbird'. It can open all your accounts without having to switch user ID.
Me too - Thunderbird also lets you download mail to your hard drive so you can get at even when not on the net. It covers my Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo accountsMike
If lack of funds are the problem there are a couple of options but they do require some technical ability (or the ability to sweet talk somebody with some)Presumably it was usable when bought so restoring back to the original factory settings will remove the built up unnecessary crud that folks install. That may well be quite easy actually depending on how the machine was set up.Failing that installing a Linux build although that would probably be a bad move for a technophobe.I use refurbs of what were high end machines. This is a Lenovo T430 with a solid state disk I bought on Windows for £175. I can see that the gits have installed a pirate version of Windows 10 but they did a good job of that as it has successfully gone through the April update and at least one monthly update since with no complaint from Microsoft.
I gave up on Microsoft when W10 upgrade totally screwed up.All my machines now run Linux in various flavors, this one is Mint. The update manager leaves Microsoft standing!