Re: hang up after sending/receiving, registry key?

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From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:20:41 -0600

"Lee C." <ChestnutLee[SpamBlock]@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:%237a9eysFEHA.1600@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl
> I want to make a VBS script (I think I know how to write it, that
> will quickly change the setting on OE 6 (WIN 2000 Pro) to the "hang
> up after sending or receiving setting". Yes, I know how to do that
> manually, but for reasons I don't want to bother with, I want to be
> able to do it and also launch OE from the script. I think I know how
> to write the script too. What I can't find is the place in the
> registry where this setting is maintained.
>
> Anybody know where this is? It's probably the same, or nearly so, as
> in WIN XP, so anybody know where that one is?
>
> (Or perhaps it's not maintained in the registry at all? Perhaps
> somebody knows that and can help me by telling me to give it up and
> quit looking around blind hoping to find it?)
>
> TIA.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities\{GUID}\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express\5.0
where GUID is the identification number for the Identity.
the
Hangup After Spool
value 

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