Then, drag all the way to the left until the folder pane cannot be made any narrower: Gain screen real estate by minimizing the Hotmail folder paneīetter still, Hotmail also lets you resize the folder pane on the left of the screen: simply move your mouse cursor above the border that separates the email listing from the folder pane until your cursor becomes a "column resize" pointer (a double-header arrow, as shown on the screenshot). For more information about removing Hotmail ads, please see our Hotmail Plus tutorial. Note that we are using the Hotmail Plus service, which among other things, hides the ads - not only does removing the Hotmail ads helps avoid distraction from flashing banners for example, their absence also allocates more screen real estate for your emails themselves. While this may be hard to tell on the screenshot, this is actually the content of the entire screen: just your email and email folders. Between showing the current email in Full Message View, and having the browser window in Full Screen mode, you gain a lot of "screen real estate" to read your emails: As shown on the tooltip floating above the close button, you can also hit the Esc key ("escape") on your keyboard to exit " Full Message View" and return to the normal Hotmail layout, with email folder content displayed alongside the current email:īut for now, let's remain in Full Message View: then, hit the F11 key on your keyboard to display the current browser window in Full Screen mode. To exit Full View mode, simply click on the Close button that appeared in place of the Full View link. Any email viewed in Full View has about 20% more space horizontally. Hotmail's " Full View" setting allows the current email to occupy the space on screen otherwise reserved to the current email and the list of emails contained inside the current folder (by default, your Hotmail inbox). To make the current email take the maximum amount of width possible outside full screen mode, click on the Full View link displayed in the top right corner of the email, right above the headers: View Hotmail in full screen modeīy default, Hotmail shows you your emails alongside the folder listing, the first page of emails contained in the selected folder, as well as the content (email headers and body) of the email currently selected.
If, instead, you are using an email program like Windows Live Mail to check your Hotmail account, simply double-click on an email to view it in its own window. This tutorial assumes that you are checking your Hotmail emails from a web browser (e.g.
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