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If you use Outlook 2007 and find yourself constantly bombarded with Desktop notifications for incoming spam, junk emails and other irrelevant messages, there’s an easy way to specify which contacts’ emails you want to be notified about. First, you need to turn off your Desktop notifications in Outlook Click Tools at the top, Options, E-mail Options, then Advanced Email Options. Untick all four boxes under the ‘When new items arrive in my Inbox’ section and click OK.

You now need to create a ‘rule’ for the email notifications you want to receive. To do this, click Tools, ‘Rules and Alerts’, then New Rule. Click ‘Check messages when they arrive’, then click

Next. Tick the boxes for ‘from people or distribution list’. In the bottom box, click ‘people or distribution list’, select the email addresses you want to receive notifications for (or type them

in the ‘From’ text box), then click OK. Click Next, scroll down and tick the ‘display a Desktop Alert’ box, and then click Finish.