Reading .eml files in Win7

I use webmail (Google) however some of my colleagues insist on using MS Outlook.

 Often when I get an email from them that contains another email that they forwarded the additional message arrives in an attachment called noname.eml

 This freaks me out ... and I have spent much time looking for an app that will read these files (there are some available but I can't really recommend any that stand out as being an elegant solution for me).

I stumbled onto a very simple solution today.

1. Simply download the file (noname.eml) from your original email
2. Rename it to noname.mht 
3. Open it with Internet Explorer 

 No need for any additional software .... which suits me.

Get Rid of "Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* ##" Entries in Vist

Shamelessly stolen from here as this was something that was REALLY becoming a pain in my backside.

Get Rid of "Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* ##" Entries in Vista

Vista seems to have an annoying habit of creating several "Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* ##" entries in my ipconfig results, which means I have to scroll up to see the actual entries I want to. That is a pain to do on a laptop with a touchpad, but also I think it was contributing to connectivity problems when switching between wireless and wired connections.

If you want to remove them, there is a method that seems to be harmless:

* Right-click My Computer, go to Manage.
* Go to Device Manager
* Click View on the top of the window, and check Show hidden devices.
* Now expand the Network adapters tree, and you should see several entries that start with isatap.(something).
* Disable (right-click, Disable) several of them, and verify that all your networking things still work.
* If that didn't cause any problems, you should be able to safely delete them (right-click, Uninstall).

Now your ipconfig readout should be a little more sane. This problems seems to be caused by IPv4 and IPv6 tunneling of some sort, which you can read about here.

I had to disable a few other hidden network adapters but a quick check of my ipconfig output and test of my network showed my progress and the fact that I hadn't broken anything.