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The Problem
I have had a rather large number of people come to me recently with a problem regarding the dictionary in Outlook Express. For some it has randomly dissappeared and we can’t get it back, for others they have installed Office 2007 and it has removed the English dictionary changed the dictionary to French!

For some there is an easy fix by replacing a missing file, for others running a system file check (sfc /scannow) has done the job. But those two don’t seem to work for everyone!

Windows Mail is the new version of Outlook Express which is included in Windows Vista, it doesn’t come with an English UK dictionary at all, so essentially people using Windows Mail are in the same boat!

The Solution
With many clients suffering from this I felt I had to come up with some sort of solution. Which I seem to have done, nothing particularly mind blowing, but it works! It does however involve you changing your Email Client.

If you download Mozilla’s Email Client named Thunderbird and install that you will notice that it doesn’t come with a dictionary at all, but there is a link to get more dictionaries online. FANTASTIC! Download the dictionary and then open Thunderbird, Tools>Add-Ons and add the download dictionary, the only thing left to do is restart Thunderbird and write your email. Sorted

Conculsion
Ok, so it isn’t the most ideal solution, but it works and if having an English Dictionary is important then it is cheaper than going and buying the full blown Outlook 2007. The only other free alternative is to get an email account with hotmail, live or Gmail and they have dictionaries built in as well.

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The following blog will show you how to download pictures from your digital camera to your Windows XP computer and how to manage the photos once they are on your computer.
Firstly you must plug your camera into your computer using the USB cable provided with your camera.
Next switch you camera on.
A window very similar to the one on the left will appear. Double-click ‘Copy pictures to a folder on my computer’.
Click’Next’.
All your pictures will appearon the screen. If you wish for the picture to be copied you must ensure that that the box in the corner of the picture has a tick in. All the pictures already have a tick, to unselect click on the tick.
Then select ‘Next’.

Next select a name for the group of pictures. We suggest that you name your pictures in the following format: YYYY-MM-DD + short label. E.g. 2007-09-01-Tutorial Pictures.
Make sure that you are saving your photos in the folder ‘My Pictures’. To do this select ‘Browse’.

Select ‘My Pictures’. (The folder name will turn blue when it is selected.)
Click ‘OK’

You can also select to delete the pictures from your camera once they are downloaded to your computer. To do this simply click once in the box next to the sentence ‘Delete pictures from my device after copying them,’ until there is a green box.
Click ‘Next’.

Your pictures will now be downloading onto your computer. This shouldn’t take very long, depending on how many pictures you decide to upload.

Select ‘Nothing. I’ve finished working with these pictures,’ by clicking in the circle next to the option. (An option is selected when a green dot is in the circle.)
Click ‘Next’.

Click ‘Finish’.
By clicking ‘Finish’ the folder where your photos were saved will be opened.
Next we are going to show you how to find the folder where your pictures are saved.

Open start and click on ‘My Pictures’.

Your ‘My Pictures’ folder will now open. Then all you do is double-click on the folder which you created and added your pictures to. Your folders will be in date order if you named your folders as named previously.
The folder with your photos in will now be open.

If you have any questions, comments or problems please leave a comment!