New Posts For Thread: Tech Help Required - Accessing emails having changed computershttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computersHi all. Helping out an old gent with his new computer. He's running Windows 8.1 now but was previously on XP. To access his emails on the old computer, he would click a desktop icon and the old fashioned blue Outlook window would pop up, taking him tno outlook on 8.1...https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539760643#539760643no outlook on 8.1...Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:30:34 -0500Think I might have it. It seems you do it through the mail app icon on Windows 8.1 : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/setup-email-contacts-tutorialThanks awfully for all your help Pug. :)bluehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539759661#539759661Think I might have it. It seems you do it through the mail app icon on Windows 8.1 : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/setup-email-contacts-tutorialThanks awfully for all your help Pug. :)blueWed, 04 Jun 2014 13:43:17 -0500To be precise, earlier I tried to do just that by creating an alias, but that wasn't a solution.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539759397#539759397To be precise, earlier I tried to do just that by creating an alias, but that wasn't a solution.Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:23:43 -0500How do you go about doing that ? As an alias ?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539759349#539759349How do you go about doing that ? As an alias ?Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:19:54 -0500you can set up outlook to receive emails from any email provider.People find it easier doing it this way rather than having to go to the email providers websitehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539756055#539756055you can set up outlook to receive emails from any email provider.People find it easier doing it this way rather than having to go to the email providers websiteWed, 04 Jun 2014 10:29:50 -0500I remember helping someone else out in the past whose emails were all saved to his hard drive, making it impossible to access then remotely.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539755835#539755835I remember helping someone else out in the past whose emails were all saved to his hard drive, making it impossible to access then remotely.Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:21:47 -0500Well, his current address ends in plus.com ( he's a PlusNet user ), yet he was able to access them through Outlook, which seems odd.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539755739#539755739Well, his current address ends in plus.com ( he's a PlusNet user ), yet he was able to access them through Outlook, which seems odd.Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:17:58 -0500the old emails will still be there unless he has manually deleted them.To restore the emails you will need to set up a connection between the current outlook and the email he is using.Once this has been set up you would just retrive the emails via ouhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539755643#539755643the old emails will still be there unless he has manually deleted them.To restore the emails you will need to set up a connection between the current outlook and the email he is using.Once this has been set up you would just retrive the emails via ouWed, 04 Jun 2014 10:13:18 -0500Hi all. Helping out an old gent with his new computer. He's running Windows 8.1 now but was previously on XP. To access his emails on the old computer, he would click a desktop icon and the old fashioned blue Outlook window would pop up, taking him thttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30278555/tech-help-required---accessing-emails-having-changed-computers?post_id=539755315#539755315Hi all. Helping out an old gent with his new computer. He's running Windows 8.1 now but was previously on XP. To access his emails on the old computer, he would click a desktop icon and the old fashioned blue Outlook window would pop up, taking him tWed, 04 Jun 2014 09:57:35 -0500