How to Enable – Disable Pictures from Downloading
Inside Emails Windows 8 Email Client
If you use the default Mail
client for Windows 8 to access your email, you probably have noticed that
photos attached to messages are downloaded and displayed automatically.
Unfortunately, this may waste your Internet bandwidth. Also, privacy is
compromised since the images you receive might not be appropriate to view at
work. To be safe, you can disable this feature and force the application to display
text only.
Microsoft is very schizophrenic
about if pictures and images should load by default within email clients. If
images are loaded, the data from the image download can be analyzed by email
marketers to obtain some basic information about you. By downloading the image,
the markets can assume that you viewed the message and can estimate your
location based on your IP address. Using other sophisticated techniques, even
your email address can be confirmed to their database.
To Enable:
Canned Statement: Let me go ahead and enable pictures from downloading
inside emails on your computer.
To Disable:
Canned Statement: Let me go ahead and disable pictures from downloading
inside emails on your computer.
1. Access the Mail application
from the Start screen or from the search result. If you are in Desktop mode,
just press the Win key to switch to the Start screen.
2. When the Mail program
is loaded, press Win key + I to open the specific Settings page
for this application. From there, choose the Accounts option.
3. After that, you will be
presented with a list of all current accounts inside the application. Just
choose the account in which you no longer want images to be automatically
downloaded and displayed.
4. When you have accessed the
email setting page, find the automatically download external images option,
and change it from ON to OFF (For disabling images to be downloaded) change it
from OFF to ON (For enabling images to be downloaded).
5. Exit the Settings
page.
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