Some of the e-mails that are sent to me have attachments which my system blocks out. How can I read these attachments? I also have a problem when trying to use spell check before sending e-mails. The computer is running Windows XP Home Edition. Can you help?

To overcome the email attachments being blocked in Outlook Express, go to the ‘Tools’ menu > ‘Options’ and click the ‘Security’ tab. Untick ‘Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus’. Click OK. Restart Outlook Express. You should now be able to open the attachments. Regarding your spell checker problem, you can only use the Outlook Express spell checker if you have another Microsoft program which has a spell checker inbuilt (e.g., Works, Word, etc’¦) and which supports Outlook Express (e.g., some versions of Works do not support spell checking in Outlook Express). So, if the spell checker is greyed out, this is your problem. If this is not the problem, can you please contact me again with more information on the exact nature of the problem.