Do you want a new email address with a proper user name, more storage for your messages and a excellent spam filter? A Gmail account can offer all of this. You can use it to access your existing email accounts and it will keep your inbox clean. You can use it to archive old emails, you can use it as a backup, and you can also use it as an email account.
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How to create a Gmail account on your computer: Go to gmail.com and click "Create an Account for Gmail". Enter your first name and surname under "Name". Type your desired user name under "Choose your username". Your Gmail email address will be that user name followed by "@gmail.com". If your Gmail user name is "johnsmith", for instance, your Gmail address will be "johnsmith@gmail.com".
If Gmail lets you know that your desired user name is not available, enter a different desired name under "Choose your username" or click one of the proposals under "Available".
Type the desired password for your Gmail account under "Create a Password" and Confirm your password. Make sure you pick a password which would be hard to guess. Select and enter your birthday under "Birthday". Choose your gender under "Gender". Optionally, enter an existing email address under "Your current email address" if you want to be able to recover a lost password with it.
You do not have to specify this secondary email address to create a Gmail account. Now type the characters in the captcha picture under "Prove you're not a robot". Select your country or location under "Location".
Read Google's terms for serving Gmail. Make sure I agree to Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy is checked. Now click Continue to Gmail.
Next week we look at setting up Gmail accounts on iPhones and Android phones.
Robert Morgan is the managing director at PIT Group.
