Re: Paperclip-icon in preview pane disappeared

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From: DGuess (majik_at_mindspring.oops)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:59:15 -0500

look at HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express
See what value BlockExeAttachments has

0 should be off
1 should be on.

Makes me wonder if something is setting that value back such as a tweak
Windows type program.
WinXPManager comes to mind. A client was using it and would change the
setting and it would change back, turns out thats what was setting it back.

"Toby" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8bb201c485c2$ff162ed0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>>> At this moment, if favour the suggestion that the paper
>>> clip is not rendered correctly, because of the (not
>>> reproducible) toggling effect (see above).
>>
>>I'd agree except that I am really surprised that you
>>didn't see any more sign that it was supposed to be
>>there. That's why I asked about the ellipsis. The fact
>>that there is no ellipsis now makes me think that there
>>is something which is causing a decision not even to try
>>presenting the icon.
>>
>>I think I found the bitmap in msoeres.dll. (Bitmap 43, is
>>a yellow one. There is also a grey one in Bitmap 42.)
>
> Found it also there. Everything seems to be fine.
>
>>Both are 30 high. So what I would be wondering is if you
>>have done some Display customization which would have
>>left less room than that available on the Preview pane
>>header. To test that idea you would use Display
>>Properties, Appearance, Advanced. E.g. something as
>>seemingly innocuous as bigger window border might throw
>>off the fit of other elements.
>
> Tried it, but nothing changed (I didn't knowingly changed
> anything here before the effect occurs for the first time).
>
>>In case the problem is instead just in the resource file
>>you should check that you have the right version of
>>msoeres.dll.
>
> The number of the bitmaps fit to the numbers posted by
> you. The bitmaps aren't corrupt and everything seems to be
> fine. Version of msoeres.dll is 6.00.2800.1123 (looks
> good)!
>
>>A related test I think would be to see if you can see the
>>Address page icon when you double click on somebody's
>>E-mail address. (To the left of the label "Summary of
>>information about this contact".) If you don't see that
>>either then I would be suspecting that the .dll was
>>corrupt.
>
> No, the icon is shown correctly at the top left of the
> contact's preferences.
>
>>Of course, if you have any tools for doing resource
>>editing you could also inspect both bitmaps yourself.
>
> Visual Studio .NET seems to fit this task ;-)
>
>>There is supposedly another way that you can test
>>resource files in IE using the res:// protocol but I
>>haven't been able to figure out the syntax to show
>>bitmaps with it.
>
> res://msoeres.dll/#232/#42 seems to be the correct syntax
> when outlook's source folder is in your search path. #232
> is a numerical identifier for bitmaps.
> res://msoeres.dll/Bitmaps/#42 should fulfill the same
> task, but I cannot test it, because IE6 "thinks" the
> ressource is located in security domain Internet and shows
> only a blank page (look at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
> url=/workshop/networking/predefined/res.asp).
>
> Thanks so far,
>
> Toby
>

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