How to get rid of those blue vertical lines in email
There are probably several answers to this and other people have their own way of eliminating those blue vertical lines that appear in email - the more the email is replied to and/or forwarded, the more blue lines appear. We're going to give you one solution which is the simplest solution and the one we use. When replying to an email with one or more indented blue lines, click "Format" (on the toolbar) and click "Plain Text". The blue lines will disappear. Now, click "Format" then "HTML" and you'll be back to HTML email with nicely formatted text, etc. If there are pictures embedded in the email you will lose them when you click Format, Plain Text, but the text content of the email will be preserved. After you click "Format" "HTML" you can add embedded pictures to your reply.
We want to remind you that the best way to prevent indented blue lines or carets is not to put them in your email in the first place. So if one of the people you email often does not know how to prevent forwards and replies from being indented and blue lines or carets added to their replies and forward, you would be doing them and you a big favor by showing them how to set up Outlook Express (or Windows Mail on Vista) so it does not indent on replies or forwards - hence no blue vertical lines or carets (in plain text email) will be added. Here's how to do that:
Click Tools/Options then click the "Send" tab. You'll see a dialog similar to the one below. First, while you're here, uncheck "Automatically put people I reply to in my Contacts list (or Address Book, in some versions of Outlook Express). Otherwise, every person you've ever replied to or ever will reply to will be added to your contacts list or address book - not good. You'll wonder who some of these people are someday and how they got there.
OK, now on to making sure you're not adding vertical blue lines to your HTML replies (or carets to your plain text replies). First, let's take care of your HTML mail. Next to "Mail Sending Format" click the button labeled "HTML Settings..."click "Plain Text Settings..." Uncheck "Indent the original text with '>' when replying or forwarding.
The best way to remove vertical blue lines from HTML email and carets from plain text email is preventing them in the first place. If every one of you who are annoyed by those vertical lines or carets told your friends about this tip, you wouldn't have to worry about removing vertical blue lines or carets - and email would look much neater.
By-the-way, "Indent.... on reply...." is the default setting for Outlook Express and Windows Mail (on Vista). So, unless you've changed that setting, your messages will be indented on reply and you'll be adding blue vertical lines or carets to your replies too.
where to find System File Checker on Windows XP
it is one of the most important tools on Windows XP for fixing corrupted or missing system files. Anytime your Windows XP computer starts acting a bit odd; such as getting random error messages, erratic crashes, odd behavior, unexplained hesitation when opening a program, etc., SFC should come to mind first.
SFC or System File Checker, is included with every version of Windows XP. Trouble is, most people don't remember it's there or how to use it even if they do remember it's there.
So here's your memory refreshment for today: You can run the SFC utility to verify that your important operating systems files have not been changed or somehow been corrupted. If any of these important system files have changed or been corrupted, they could be causing a lot of those erratic errors and minor glitches and problems you've been experiencing recently.
SFC can restore important operating system files back to the pristine versions installed by Windows. This can correct many minor problems with applications, program crashes, or the system just plain behaving erratically. If you're sure a program is not at fault, System File Checker (SFC) might correct your problem, and it's worth a try.
Before you start running SFC, make sure you have your Windows XP CD handy (or the computer manufacturer's "restore disk"). When you're all ready, Windows XP CD in the CD drive ===> Click Start/Run and type in SFC /scannow (exactly as shown). You must leave the space exactly as you see it between SFC and the / . Be sure you leave that space, or SFC won't work. We've been there and done that :)
Update note: SFC also works on Windows Vista - exactly the same as it does on Windows XP.
Removing Old System Restore Points Windows XP and Windows Vista
The easiest way - and one that works on both Windows Vista and Windows XP is to use Windows Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe). Using the Windows Disk Cleanup eliminates a few steps and saves time and confusion.
To open Windows Disk Cleanup (this is the same for Windows XP and Windows Vista) - click Start, Run, and type in cleanmgr.exe and press Enter. You'll leave C: Drive selected (if you have more than one drive you can clean other drives after you've finished cleaning C:\).
Windows will proceed to remove all the old system restore points except the most recent one. In Vista it will also remove all old shadow copies and older Windows Complete Backup images. So, it's important that your computer is not experiencing any problems before you perform this procedure. If you are having serious computer problems you may wish you had left older restore points, shadow copies, and backup images on your computer. But, in cases where you're not having any problems with your computer, keeping only the most recent restore point, saves disk space. System restore points tend to be very large files, so if disk space is a concern, you'll definitely want to consider removing all those old system restore files. Windows XP users won't see the "shadow copies" or "Windows Complete PC Backup images" dialogs.
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