Re: mailto: shortcut opens up Outlook Express, not new message

From: Kuay Tim (TimJohn_at_msn.com)
Date: 06/10/04 

Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 18:14:06 -0700

Hi alba,

Yes, that's the place. What do you find for application used to perform
action and for application? 

-- 
Tim K.
aka Kuay Tim
MVP - (IE/OE)
Lynnwood, WA
*
"alba" <alba1314@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:1a80101c44e84$008aea10$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for the reply Kuay Tim - I take it these
> instructions require me to go into Windows Explorer>
> Tools> Folder Options> File Types and make adjustments
> there?
>
> If so, to which application do I associate (or
> disassociate) mailto: shortcut??
>
> Hope you can advise?
>
> Cheers,
>
> alba
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hi alba,
> >
> >Don't know if I can help, but have you checked file
> types? Here's what I
> >have for mine and the mailto: shortcut has always
> worked. However, I don't
> >use identities.
> >
> >Extensions (NONE)
> >File Types: URL:MailTo Protocol
> >
> >Looking further under edit....
> >
> >Application used to perform action:
> >"C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1
> >Application:
> >msimn
> >Topic:
> >System
> >
> >
> >-- 
> >Tim K.
> >aka Kuay Tim
> >MVP - (IE/OE)
> >Lynnwood, WA
> >*
> >"alba" <alba1314@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> >news:Oo2KgmOTEHA.3756@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> >> Thanks PA Bear - to create the shortcut, I right-
> clicked my desktop and
> >> chose New> Shortcut.  In the command box that came up,
> I typed 'mailto:'
> >> (without the apostrophes) and then named the new
> shortcut " New Mail Out".
> >>     When I right-click on the new New Mail Out icon
> and select
> >'Properties',
> >> there is only a 'General' tab which informs me that
> the file type is an
> >> Internet Shortcut which opens with Outlook Express.
> >>     What I have just discovered is that, if I drag the
> shortcut to my
> >> Quicklaunch toolbar, the icon changes from the OE
> envelope to an IE icon
> >and
> >> going into 'Properties' in this icon brings up a
> second  shortcut tab to
> >> accompany the General tab - this tab does not appear
> in the desktop icon
> >> Properties?!
> >>     The Quicklaunch icon tells me that the Target
> is: "C:\Documents and
> >> Settings\XXXXX\Desktop\New Mail Out.url" and starts
> in "C:\Documents and
> >> Settings\XXXXX\Desktop".  Everything else seems normal
> with the
> >information
> >> in this icon but it STILL opens up OE and not a new
> blank message, as I
> >want
> >> it to.
> >>     I have come across this workaround "1. Open
> Outlook Express or Outlook
> >> and open a new email message. You can leave it blank
> or add whatever
> >> signature or text you want to appear whenever a new
> message is opened via
> >> the New Menu entry (in effect, you are creating a new
> message template)
> >> 2 Click File > Save As and save the file with a name
> like Blank.eml if you
> >> are using Outlook Express."  This saved *.eml message
> was then renamed
> >'New
> >> Mail Out' and bears the *.eml envelope icon.  As there
> are *.eml messages
> >on
> >> my desktop for quick access to, I want to change the
> icon for this blank
> >> template (to distinguish it from saved messages) but
> find that this option
> >> is not available in 'Properties.  Previously, I was
> able to change the OE
> >> blank message icon to something brighter and easier to
> distinguish it as a
> >> blank message template.
> >>     Ideally I would like to restore my previous icons
> and settings to
> >allow
> >> me to access my outgoing mail quicker, once again,
> without having to do a
> >> uninstall and then reinstallation of OE, risking
> losing all my identities
> >> and messages.
> >>
> >> HTH?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> alba.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >>
> >>
> >> Post the shortcut you created.
> >> HTH - Please Reply to This Thread
> >>
> >>  (PA Bear)
> >> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP
> >>
> >> alba wrote:
> >>     I am running XP Pro PC with OE6 (v6.00.2800.1123)
> and am having
> >problems
> >> sending e-mails via 'mailto:' shortcut on my desktop
> and in my start-up
> >> menu.
> >>     A short time ago, I created a 'mailto:' shortcut
> on my desktop to
> >allow
> >> me to send mail using OE without having to open OE to
> download messages
> >> while creating a new message.
> >>     Recently, this has happened - my mailto: shortcut
> opens up Outlook
> >> Express, not new message.  And, of course all manner
> of SPAM floods in
> >while
> >> I attempt to halt the flow to create a new message!
> >>     What can be causing this??
> >>     The problem has me very close to the point of
> seriously considering
> >> having to overwrite OE or uninstall OE and trying to
> reinstall it again
> >onto
> >> my XP Pro PC from disk?  Where would this leave me
> with my FOUR separate
> >> identities in OE and their archived messages?  Would
> this procedure wipe
> >> everything from OE from my PC?
> >>
> >> Can anyone please help??
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> alba.
> >>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free.
> >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system
> (http://www.grisoft.com).
> >> Version: 6.0.700 / Virus Database: 457 - Release Date:
> 07/06/2004
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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