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Why w on’t m y Outlook f olders sync? Can I m ake

Q I u se Outlook 2 010 o n m y P C choose I MAP Folders. I n t he box t hat Windows
t he ‘When
with an IMAP email a ccount. I
d isplaying
appears untick
also access the I MAP a ccount on hierarchy in Outlook, show only remember m y
my phone. B ut while t he folders on my subscribed folders’ o ption (see
phone sync correctly , Outlook d oesn’t, screenshot). Y o u s hould now s ee all split-screen
and s ome f olders have disappeared. Also, possible folders.
when I d elete items f rom m y O utlook For t he emails that aren’t disappearing, settings?
inbox, they aren’t removed f rom t he click t he folder. Next, in the F older t ab in
server, s o m y p hone and w ebmail have the t oolbar, c lick Purge. Then c lick Purge
lots of deleted e mails. Can y ou help? Options and i n t he Deleted I tems tab I u se Windows 1 0 H ome
Kim S isson select ‘Purge items w hen s witching Q with a 2 7in m onitor that
folders while o nline’. C lick OK. F inally, has a 1 920x1080 resolution.
i n
s plit-screen
A Outlook c an get i nto a m ess w ith click P urge and c hoose ‘ Purge M arked I r outinely w t wo browser w indows
ork
IMAP folders. Y ou may n eed to
mode, w
ith
items i n
[ your email a ddress]’.
re-subscribe t o t hem. Click side by side. W hen I r estart my PC
Mail in the N avigation pane, r ight- one b rowser window is recreated,
click t he top f older f or your IMAP but for t he other w indow I h ave t o
account, t hen c lick IMAP Folders. manually drag a t ab into free space
Click Q uery, c hoose t he folders that on my desktop and s et it to a h alf-
aren’t appearing correctly , then click screen split d isplay. F or some r eason
Subscribe. If they show as already that shrinks t he original b rowser
subscribed, c lick UnSubscribe, then window to a t humbnail, w hich I
click S ubscribe. then have to expand again t o fi ll the
Also try altering which f olders other h alf o f t he screen. A s y ou can
Outlook d isplays. Click y our I MAP imagine, this is a v ery t edious
inbox a nd, f rom t he Folder m enu, Untick this b ox to see a ll IMAP folders process. Can I m ake W indows 10
remember my preferences a nd
recreate the c omplete s plit-screen
How d o I g et Chrome t o o pen P DF links? setup w hen i t r estarts? Paul Barrett

Q I g ot annoyed w ith m y C hrome the f eature, o nly f or it to dawn on me
browser a utomatically o pening
as actually the
that most of the t ime i t w
PDF l inks o n w ebsites, rather behaviour I’d p refer. Now I h ave t o s ave
than giving me the o ption to download any P DF to my hard drive b efore I c an
the fi le. S omehow, I m anaged to turn off view i t. I’d l ike t o t urn t his f eature back
on but I’ve forgotten w hat I d id! C an you
1 please explain h ow I c an do this?
Chris Miller

A Google has j ust c hanged the
layout of Chrome’s Settings
page, s o i t’s p ossible this
has c onfused you. But i t’s f airly
straightforward. Type chrome://settings Select ‘Show w indows side by side’ so
into the b rowser bar t hen p ress Enter. Windows remembers your settings
On the s ettings page, s croll d own a nd
click A dvanced t o e xpand t he advanced Y e s, there’s a n e asy s hortcut
2 options. N ear t he foot of the ‘ Privacy A to do this. C reate t he two
c lick Content S ettings,
browser w
and
s ecurity’ box
indows but don’t
then scroll down to the b ottom a nd click bother resizing or repositioning
‘PDF documents’ (see screenshot 1). them. H old d own t he Shift k ey and
Switch off the s lider o n t he next page right-click t he browser’s i con o n t he
(see screenshot 2). taskbar. Y o u s hould see t he option to
Close t he settings and y ou should find ‘Show w indows side by side’.
that Chrome’s default b ehaviour has Selecting this does what you r equire,
reverted to displaying P DFs o nline. Click although there w ill be a s lightly
the d ownload icon at the t op right t o s ave annoying g ap between t he windows.
a c opy o f a ny PDF .

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