Requirements: Email For Help

 

Email For Help is a small program that runs in the background and monitors your computer for inactivity. If you have been away for a specified period of time, Email For Help will send a custom email out to people you’ve configured. In order to do this, Email For Help needs a few things:

• Your computer must be turned on 24/7. It is recommended that you enable the ‘Run every time the computer is turned on’ feature, AND that you have set your BIOS to automatically turn your computer on when power is restored in case of a power outage. Each BIOS has a different method to do this, so you’ll have to read your computer manual or google search to find out how to change yours.
• Your computer must be connected to the internet.
• If you are sending the email from a Microsoft email account (someone@hotmail.com/someone@outlook.com) you must have the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook (the version that comes with an Office 365 subscription and Microsoft Office bundles, not the freeware version) installed and configured to use that account as the default email account. You will then need to configure Email For Help to use Outlook instead of a direct connection to a mail server.
• Microsoft Notepad must be installed on your computer. This is typical in 99.99% of computers, and would only be different if you manually replaced Notepad with something else.
• You will need to have administrator rights on the Windows computer account you are using. This is usually the case if you are the only or the main user.