Printing+or+burning+your+E-Mails


 * Printing or burning your E-Mails **

You have in Win 7 the Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack installed.

All versions of Windows 7 and some newer versions of Windows Vista have this Pack installed by default. If you have Windows XP or an older version of Vista, you can download what you need here.:-

Just follow the on-page instructions to download and install the latest version of the Microsoft XML Paper Specification Essentials Pack before moving on to Step 1.

Step 1. Open your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and go to the [|MSN homepage].



Step 2. Click the ** Sign in ** link in the upper right corner of the page.



Step 3. You will be sent to the MSN sign in / sign up page. Enter your MSN e-mail address under **Windows Live ID** and your password in the **Password** box. Afterward, Click the **Sign In** button. You will be taken back to your MSN homepage.



Step 4. Look in the upper left corner for the **Hotmail** link. If you have any new messages in your inbox, the amount will be shown in parenthesis ""

Click the **Hotmail** link to be taken to your e-mail home screen.



Step 5. In your e-mail home screen, click **Go to inbox** to be taken to your inbox.



Step 6. Find the e-mail you would like to save and click on it to open.



Step 7. Once your e-mail is displayed, click on the small printer icon in the menu above your e-mails' title.



Step 8. The Print dialog will appear. Under **Printer** click the **Name**: drop down list and select **Microsoft XPS Document Writer**



(This will let you save your e-mail in a .xps file. Once saved, you will be able to view, copy text from, and print out your e-mail from this file at any time)

Step 9. Click **OK** and wait for the Save XPS dialog to appear.





Step 10. In the Save XPS dialog box, navigate to the folder on your **C:** drive where you would like to temporarily store your saved e-mails until you transfer them to your external drive or CD/DVD. Name your file, and click **Save**.



(If you do not yet have a temporary folder on your C: drive, simply right click in the white space in the save XPS dialog, select **New** > then **Folder**, name the folder that appears, and save your XPS file(s) in there.)



Step 10-1. Once saved, you will be taken back to the e-mail you just saved. If your e-mail has any attachments (images, zip files, pdfs, .doc files, etc.) they will be shown just above the body (text) of your message. Click the **Download** link underneath the file you would like to save, and save it to the same folder as your XPS file(s).

Step 11. Repeat steps 6 through 10 until all your important e-mails are saved as XPS files in your temporary folder on your C: drive.

Step 12. You are now ready to save your e-mails to an external hard drive, USB flash drive, or burn your e-mails to a CD or DVD.

**__Saving to an external drive:__**

Step 13. Open the folder where your e-mails are stored, then go into your **My Computer** drive listing, and find the folder you wish to backup your e-mails to on your external drive.

Step 13-1. In the folder containing your saved e-mails, press the **Ctrl** key and **A** at the same time (ctrl+A) to select all the saved e-mails (.xps files) in the folder.



Step 13-2. Place your mouse over any of the selected files, hold down the left click button on your mouse and drag the files over to your e-mail backup folder on your external drive. Wait a few moments for your files to transfer, and you're done



Step 14. If you prefer to burn your saved e-mails to a CD or DVD disc, there are a variety of ways to do so depending on what CD/DVD burning program(s) you have installed on your computer, and what version of Windows you are running.

__Caution:-__ Regardless of your back up medium, be it external drive or optical disc, have a backup of your backup (a second external drive or set of discs with your saved e-mails duplicated on them, even a hard copy print out of your e-mails) just in case your first backup fails for whatever reason.