Word, Excel, Outlook mouse pointer constantly busy – Office 2007

The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

When using any MS Office application I would find that the mouse pointer was constantly busy and the pc would come  to a crawl.

The fix for me was to;

1. Stop the print spooler service. (Start, Run, Services.msc). At this point you’ll notice the mouse issue is gone.

2. Either delete and reinstall the printer (or the offending one). Or reinstall the correct driver. If you have multiple printers, you can find the bad one by changing the default printer to another one and restarting the printer spooler service. Repeat the steps until the issue reoccurs. Once the bad printer has been removed, your office applications should return to normal.

I hope you too have found a fix!

Outlook Stuck on continuous loop in Send and Receive at 50%

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

Outlook was stuck in a continuous loop in Send/Receive at around 50%. It seemed to be downloading mails byte by byte but could not complete the task.  Also, the application itself was constantly hanging and bringing the pc to a standstill

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Irish Broadband POP3 and SMTP server settings

If you are setting up an Irish Broadband address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details

POP3 (Incoming) Server: pop3.irishbroadband.ie
SMTP (Outgoing) Server: smtp.irishbroadband.ie.

Eircom POP3 and SMTP server settings

If you are setting up an Eircom address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details.

POP3 (Incoming) Server: webmail.eircom.net (new webmail) or mail1.eircom.net  (classic webmail)
SMTP (Outgoing) Server: mail1.eircom.net.

Gmail POP3 and SMTP settings

If you are setting up an Gmail address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details.
note:POP needs to be manually enabled on the account.

POP3: pop.gmail.com
SMTP: smtp.gmail.com

Server Port Numbers
Incoming (POP3)Server: 995
Outgoing (SMTP)Server: 465

ICE Broadband POP3 and SMTP Server Settings

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

If you are setting up an ICE broadband address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details.

ICE Broadband

POP3 (Incoming) Server: mail.icecomms.net

SMTP (Outgoing) Server: mail.icecomms.net

NTL POP3 and SMTP Server Settings

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

If you are setting up a UPC (previously NTL) address in a Client (such as Outlook), then you will require the POP3 and SMTP server details.

POP3 (Incoming) Server: pop3.upcmail.ie

SMTP (Outgoing) Server: smtp.upcmail.ie

How to enable Out of Office notification

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

For e-mail accounts based on Exchange (as opposed to web based e-mail), Out of Office notification can be configured from Outlook.

Click on ‘Tools’, then ‘Out of Office Assistant’

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Setting up a signature in Office 2003

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

Here is how to set up a signature file referencing your new account when using Outlook 2003.

Go to the Tools menu and select Options

Select the tab for ‘Mail Format’ and from here click the ‘Signatures… ‘button.

From the Create Signature dialog box, click the New… button.

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Removing autocomplete entries

The other day while browsing the Internet I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows:

The auto complete feature is very useful when composing mails

Sometimes these shortcuts can cause problems if an address is no longer in use or if the address was previously misspelled.

You can simply remove these shortcuts manually by scrolling down to the relevant users and hit the ‘delete’ key.