We Help Wednesday 12/28

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  • 2297

    28 December, 2016 - 9:22 am

    <p>Is everyone getting more spam once they are moved to the new Outlook.com ?</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p>https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/outlook/81742/hands-new-outlook-com</p&gt;

    • 8665

      31 December, 2016 - 12:44 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32371">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/MrPKI">MrPKI</a><a href="#32371">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>I was getting a massive amount of spam when first migrated over to the "new" Outlook Mail to the tune of over 200 per day. It was like a full time job just to go through my email. It was ridiculous. &nbsp;</p>
      <p>After weeks of that mess, and researching anything I could find on the subject I finally found a partial solution. I didn’t realize that Skype was on by default with the "new" Outlook Mail. &nbsp;I clicked on the Skype icon and low and behold there were all my contacts from Window Live Messenger, with one exception…an unknown contact that I’ve never ever heard of. &nbsp;I never migrated my WLM over to Skype no matter how much they prompted me, and I’ve never signed up for a Skype acct. of my own volition. &nbsp;</p>
      <p>I was so ticked off. &nbsp;I promptly blocked and deleted that unknown contact that was in the Skype contact list, which by the way didn’t show up in my People app contacts. &nbsp;The amount of my spam emails were reduced from over 200 per day to less than 20 per day. Still not ideal, but it was better than what I was dealing with since the migration to the new Outlook Mail.</p>
      <p>How that unknown person got in my contact list I don’t know, because they weren’t there the last time I used WLM years ago. &nbsp; Microsoft must have combined my WLM contacts list into Skype with that default setting with the new Outlook Mail migration. &nbsp;I continued to research how this could have happened and stumbled upon a forum thread through Google that sent me to a Skype forum where apparently a lot of Skype users had been inundated with a porn spamming bot. What do you know the unknown contact I had seen in my Skype contact list was discussed there too. &nbsp;Coincidence? I think not. &nbsp; Because upon getting W10 when it first came out one of the first things I did was uninstall Skype from my laptop, and I don’t have it on my mobile device either. &nbsp;Don’t know if this will help you, but I would definitely check your contact lists for possible unknowns. &nbsp;It significantly reduced my amount of spam in Outlook Mail.</p>
      <p>Now if I could just find a way to disable Skype in Outlook Mail I would be so happy. But due to the Baidu hacking fiasco in early Nov this year, it is impossible to disable/unlink your Skype acct. with your MSA. &nbsp;I am so ticked, b/c I would have never even had a darned Skype acct. in the first place if it wasn’t for that automatic sign in every time you sign into Outlook Mail! &nbsp;Thanks a lot Microsoft for that headache!</p>

  • 5664

    Premium Member
    28 December, 2016 - 9:28 am

    <p>Why won’t my Windows tablet wake up when I push the stinking button? It’s more reliable to power it off and then back on most of the time.</p>

  • 1129

    28 December, 2016 - 9:40 am

    <p>Whatever happened to the Microsoft/Wacom universal pen?&nbsp; Inking requires the same kind of program as Precision Track pad.</p>

  • 127

    Premium Member
    28 December, 2016 - 10:07 am

    <p>Do you think the Surface Pro line will continue to be&nbsp; an Intel based 2-in-1 going forward? And so, will the Surface line be based on&nbsp;ARM chips?</p>

    • 5664

      Premium Member
      29 December, 2016 - 7:25 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32391">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Bart">Bart</a><a href="#32391">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>Probably why the Surface 3 EOL’d without a clear replacement! I hadn’t thought of that.&nbsp;</p>

  • 1080

    Premium Member
    28 December, 2016 - 10:29 am

    <p>Help android has made a mess of my outlook contacts.</p>
    <p>Paul and Brad I switched to android back in the summer and ever since I have had issue with my contacts. A couple of the contacts continuously get duplicated to the point there are 20 plus entries of one contact. When I add a contact it is forgotten or deleted within 24 hours. It is a mess. FYI I have a Google account and an outlook account set up on the phone and I’m using the out of box Android contact app.</p>
    <p>Have you’ve seen this issue?</p>
    <p>I was thinking of switching to a third party contact manager and any recommendations on contact management would be appreciated.</p>

    • 847

      Premium Member
      28 December, 2016 - 12:35 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#32398">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/Finley">Finley</a><a href="#32398">:</a></em>I have this issue, too. Any advice or solution from Paul or Brad that retains Outlook information in Android contact app will be appreciated.</blockquote>
      <p>&nbsp;</p>

  • 1063

    Premium Member
    28 December, 2016 - 10:30 am

    <p>Xbox question. &nbsp;I started using the One guide as just that, a TV guide for all my apps and live TV. &nbsp;I have added ESPN apps ESPN Live and ESPN3 channels and several other HBO Go channels to my apps list. &nbsp;However, it appears that it has not updated the information for 4 days. &nbsp;This is okay for sites like HBO Go, but when I want to see something on ESPN Live "live" and get last weeks information that doesn’t help. &nbsp;Anyway to force a refresh on the one guide? &nbsp;I have tried using the RT LT y trick, but that doesn’t help as it only refreshes the home screen. &nbsp;</p>
    <p>Thanks,</p>
    <p>Todd</p>

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