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Thursday, February 13, 2003 by Keila | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
A thread for tips and tricks. Anything you want, from computers to getting that nasty stain out. 
Keila will start off simple.
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JamMeister33
Reply #42 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:32 PM
Reply #42 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:32 PM
Does anyone know why Outlook Express 6.0 would make an computer with XP SP1 installed freeze up every so often?
Perhaps too many saved emails bloating the program?
Perhaps too many saved emails bloating the program?
Keila
Reply #43 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:44 PM
Reply #43 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:44 PM
Do you have Messenger blocked? The first time I took off Messenger it was not a good way to do it and it really slowed Outlook Express down and it locked up a lot. Other then that I have not had any problems with it. Oh and yes I have the XP SP1.
JamMeister33
Reply #44 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:59 PM
Reply #44 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:59 PM
I'll ask her, it's a friend's computer... thanks Keila!
Keila
Reply #45 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:37 PM
Reply #45 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:37 PM
What I did to fix it was back track on the way I got rid of the Messenger.
This is then the way I got rid of it again.
Bring up Outlook Express and select Options from the Tools menu. Locate and un-check the box that reads "Enable instant messaging..."
Then run the following command to uninstall Messenger:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
This is then the way I got rid of it again.
Bring up Outlook Express and select Options from the Tools menu. Locate and un-check the box that reads "Enable instant messaging..."
Then run the following command to uninstall Messenger:
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
JamMeister33
Reply #46 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:09 PM
Reply #46 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:09 PM
Thanks Keila, you've been very helpful... maybe this will fix her problem.
We'll certainly give it a whirl...
We'll certainly give it a whirl...
HuronJoe
Reply #47 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:07 PM
Reply #47 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 6:07 PM
I keep Edit Pad (a free program similer to NotePad, but with more capabilities) "Pinned" to my start menu (right click on any program that you've just used in XP and select "Pin to Start Menu") That way whenever I run across a good tip no matter where I'm surfing, I can just right click the "tip" or "dialog", drag across it to highlight it, right click again to "copy" it, hit the start button to bring up edit pad, click on it and then paste the tip in. You can leave it running in the back ground or save it as a text file and name it for whatever the tip does.
It sounds like a lot of things to do but in reality, it only takes an instant. Anyone that tries it will soon see how handy this is.
BTW it will work with graphics also.
It sounds like a lot of things to do but in reality, it only takes an instant. Anyone that tries it will soon see how handy this is.
BTW it will work with graphics also.
IPlural
Reply #50 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:17 AM
Reply #50 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:17 AM
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#42 by Sir JamMeister33 - 2/19/2003 2:32:32 PM
Does anyone know why Outlook Express 6.0 would make an computer with XP SP1 installed freeze up every so often?
Perhaps too many saved emails bloating the program?
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My wife's pst file causes her p4 T30 thinkpad with 512 megs of ram take somewhere around 7 - 10 minutes to load outlook and it pretty much stops you from doing anything else, the pst file is 1.4 gig, I keep telling her to clean the dang thing up or move stuff over to the database and link it so it doesn't have to load constantly. She's got this thing about having past and present emails ready at hand...
so, yeah the size of your pst can very well do that....
#42 by Sir JamMeister33 - 2/19/2003 2:32:32 PM
Does anyone know why Outlook Express 6.0 would make an computer with XP SP1 installed freeze up every so often?
Perhaps too many saved emails bloating the program?
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My wife's pst file causes her p4 T30 thinkpad with 512 megs of ram take somewhere around 7 - 10 minutes to load outlook and it pretty much stops you from doing anything else, the pst file is 1.4 gig, I keep telling her to clean the dang thing up or move stuff over to the database and link it so it doesn't have to load constantly. She's got this thing about having past and present emails ready at hand...
so, yeah the size of your pst can very well do that....
JamMeister33
Reply #52 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:35 AM
Reply #52 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:35 AM
Whamma Lamma, shamma lamma, ding dong.....
JamMeister33
Reply #53 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:39 AM
Reply #53 Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:39 AM
#50 by IPlural - 2/20/2003 8:17:28 AM
My wife's pst file causes her p4 T30 thinkpad with 512 megs of ram take somewhere around 7 - 10 minutes to load outlook and it pretty much stops you from doing anything else, the pst file is 1.4 gig, I keep telling her to clean the dang thing up or move stuff over to the database and link it so it doesn't have to load constantly. She's got this thing about having past and present emails ready at hand...
so, yeah the size of your pst can very well do that....
IPlural, that's what I was thinking and she definitely has a lot of emails saved in there, I told her to back up the pst file and empty out the saved and deleted folders...
Keila, she can't turn off Messenger because she skins for it... so that wasn't an option.
My wife's pst file causes her p4 T30 thinkpad with 512 megs of ram take somewhere around 7 - 10 minutes to load outlook and it pretty much stops you from doing anything else, the pst file is 1.4 gig, I keep telling her to clean the dang thing up or move stuff over to the database and link it so it doesn't have to load constantly. She's got this thing about having past and present emails ready at hand...
so, yeah the size of your pst can very well do that....
IPlural, that's what I was thinking and she definitely has a lot of emails saved in there, I told her to back up the pst file and empty out the saved and deleted folders...
Keila, she can't turn off Messenger because she skins for it... so that wasn't an option.
HuronJoe
Reply #54 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:18 PM
Reply #54 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:18 PM
I use a program named "Outback Plus" which will back up all the mail in Outlook to a file I keep on another drive. Then whenever outlook starts to slow down I just click on Outback Plus and when it is done I go in and delete all the various email files I've saved. If and when I ever need a particular email I can just restore the backup for that particular week, month, or year (depending on how often you want to run the cleanup.
The same company also makes this same kind of program for Outlook Express. You can try the program out free for 15 days.
The single user license fee for OUTBACK Plus is $29.95 (US) (Site Licenses are available.)
Registration for OUTBACK Plus is handled via LINK http://www.REGSOFT.com
The same company also makes this same kind of program for Outlook Express. You can try the program out free for 15 days.
The single user license fee for OUTBACK Plus is $29.95 (US) (Site Licenses are available.)
Registration for OUTBACK Plus is handled via LINK http://www.REGSOFT.com
JamMeister33
Reply #55 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:25 PM
Reply #55 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:25 PM
Thanks for that tip and link HuronJoe, I needed the information for a friend of mine.
I don't use OE myself, I use Outlook (and I just backup my .pst file)
My friend has limited income so I doubt she would want to pay for that program as good as it sounds.
I appreciate your input though....
I don't use OE myself, I use Outlook (and I just backup my .pst file)
My friend has limited income so I doubt she would want to pay for that program as good as it sounds.
I appreciate your input though....
HuronJoe
Reply #56 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:32 PM
Reply #56 Friday, February 21, 2003 3:32 PM
It is a bit expensive, but you can back up many other files at the same time. (Not actually a backup program per se but you can pick and choose quite a few different files that you want to "protect") It comes with a link you can put anywhere (of course anyone from this site can set up links themselves) like on the desktop and it remembers whatever your last configuration was and backsup them all in about 3 to 5 seconds. Really fast.
Keila
Reply #57 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:14 PM
Reply #57 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 2:14 PM
This is copied from WinXpnews.
Get a "pie-chart" for All Windows XP Drives
If you go into My Computer, right click on one of the drives and click Properties, you can see a pie chart for that drive, showing how much of its space is free and how much is used. But how about seeing multiple drives? Who wants to right click and click Properties on ten drives? Try this instead:
Click Start and then click on My Computer.
Click on your C: drive. Now, hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click on the the other drives. For example, if you have a C:, an E:, an F: and a G: drive, click on the C: drive, hold down the CTRL key, and then click on the C:, E: F: and G: drives. Now let go of the CTRL key. All of drives should be highlighted. Right click on one of the drives and click the Properties command.
The properties dialog box will now show several tabs, one tab for each drive. Now you can just click on a tab instead of having to repeat that right click operation over and over. Cool!
Get a "pie-chart" for All Windows XP Drives
If you go into My Computer, right click on one of the drives and click Properties, you can see a pie chart for that drive, showing how much of its space is free and how much is used. But how about seeing multiple drives? Who wants to right click and click Properties on ten drives? Try this instead:
Click Start and then click on My Computer.
Click on your C: drive. Now, hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click on the the other drives. For example, if you have a C:, an E:, an F: and a G: drive, click on the C: drive, hold down the CTRL key, and then click on the C:, E: F: and G: drives. Now let go of the CTRL key. All of drives should be highlighted. Right click on one of the drives and click the Properties command.
The properties dialog box will now show several tabs, one tab for each drive. Now you can just click on a tab instead of having to repeat that right click operation over and over. Cool!
jcg
Reply #58 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:05 PM
Reply #58 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:05 PM
Outlook has its own backup system (I think its a free plugin from Microsoft). You can schedule it to backup every so often and the nice thing is it only runs when Outlook is open. Also you should compact your folders every month or so. The pst file can get pretty big even if you have very few saved emails.
Cavanaugh
Reply #59 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:01 PM
Reply #59 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:01 PM
umm - how to play practical joke on your favorite techie assumming you have a few minutes alone with their computer.
1) Take a screenshot (Ctrl-PrtScr) of their desktop. Paste it into a drawing program and save it as a *.bmp
2) if using windows xp, hide desktop icons, other flavors, put them in a safe place (not on desktop)
3) move their taskbar to the top of the screen and resize it to nothing
4) disable any startup shells like desktopx for instance
5) set the screenshot in step 1 as the background.
6) and for gods sake - remember where you put anything and everything that you turned off so you can fix it when you hear the screaming.
1) Take a screenshot (Ctrl-PrtScr) of their desktop. Paste it into a drawing program and save it as a *.bmp
2) if using windows xp, hide desktop icons, other flavors, put them in a safe place (not on desktop)
3) move their taskbar to the top of the screen and resize it to nothing
4) disable any startup shells like desktopx for instance
5) set the screenshot in step 1 as the background.
6) and for gods sake - remember where you put anything and everything that you turned off so you can fix it when you hear the screaming.
jcg
Reply #60 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:28 PM
Reply #60 Tuesday, May 20, 2003 8:28 PM
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Reply #41 Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:24 PM
To keep Deer out of your garden you can make a cheap fence by putting a couple strands of string around the garden on poles. The deer will think it's a complete fence.