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Thank you. I learned enough from that article to order a light weight companion card that uses the same driver.

John

Thank you,

John

Thank you Charlotte,
The Object Browser is a new concept for me. (For that matter, as is everything to do with VB after 1990.) Can you recommend any resource (a book?) that can explain the object browser to one that is rather overwhelmed by the vastness of the VB 2005 Express Edition Help System?

Thank you again, John

Thank you Mark. Your remarks were enough to get me going. Now I just have to find some documentation on how to use the .dll .

John

Hans,
How do you remember this stuff? That was exactly the problem. Last week I was looking around for something else and stumbled open that screen without out a clue as to what the Error Trapping options meant. So I changed to Break on All Errors to see what happens. (Then I promptly forgot all about it.) Now I see what happens.

Al always (this is beginning to sound like a broken record), thank you for your knowledge and time,

John

Hans,
Two new methods I’ve never seen before. This is really neat.

As always, thank you for your knowledge and time,

John

Thanks Hans. Bummer.

John

Kool

John

Legare,
I have backed it up daily for ten years. Please explain the reason for your question.

(Sorry this reply took so long. Woody’s Lounge seems to have been down.)

John

[Shared] does Not appear in the title bar. However, your solution is correct. I went into Tools, Share Workbook and found the “Allow changes to more than one user at the same time” check box to be checked. I unchecked and now have my development environment back.

Thank you,

John

Hans,
That was the simple, straight forward answer I was looking for. I really gets to me that I can’t seem to remember everything.

Thanks,

John

Short answer: Send/Receive is set for every five minutes. I will try variations.

Long answer: I agree with all of your conclusions. I also have Googled another instance of someone in another forum asking the meaning of the “MCI” error window. From what I could tell, no answers were forthcoming.

In the mean time until the next version of Windows/Office, does anyone see any problems with my shutting down Outlook in a batch file (remember? That was the original question.) by these two steps which I’m reshowing from above?

1. Invoke the script that Rory contributed back in the March thread to close Outlook politely. My assumption is that this would flush any buffers that are still active. Here is the script:

Dim oAppOL
set oAppOL = CreateObject(“Outlook.Application”)
oAppOL.Quit
set oAppOL = Nothing

2. Then run FsKill to clear out the Task Manager process list.

The hope is that this would let me accomplish my overall objective of a) Backing up my data including the .PST files, and Powering down (I already know how to do this) all from an unattended scheduled batch file.

Thank you all for your contributions. It is a kick to know that this kind of support is available. (It’s also a kick to try to figure where in the world you’re located.)

John Littell
From the Oregon Coast

ZoneAlarm Security Suite spam blocking: The spam blocking column in the Settings tab is set to off. Remember, however, several entries in this conversion back, I ran the 1-6 test with ZA turned completely off.

Other Virus/Spam/Junk Mail/etc. programs: Once a week I run Ad-Aware SE Personal, Registry First Aid, Spy Sweeper (Webroot), CWShreadder, Spybot Search and Disproy, and once some months ago I ran RootKitRevealer but I’m not comfortable with its reviews. Of these Spy Sweeper runs in the background. So even though its help system made no mention of spam, I shut it down and ran the 1-6 test. The results were unchanged.

I tried to capture the MCI error screen image for you but Windows was shutting down and would not let me. So, the title says “End program – MCI command handling window”; an icon with the letters MCI appears at the top left of the screen body, and then appear the following messages “This program is not responding.” “To return to Windows and check the status of the program, click Cancel.” “If you choose to end the program immediately, you will loose any unsaved data. To end the program now, click End Now.” Then are the two buttons “End Now” and “Cancel”

Of course the “has anything changed” question is the first thing to ask. Unfortunately being on the web and downloading stuff several hours a day makes this impossible to answer. Various new versions of the programs mentioned above were implemented, but other than the Spy Sweeper possibility they don’t seem to apply.

I could say I hope this helps but I can’t see how is could. Please keep trying.

John

One more thing to eliminate. You have probably noted that my default browser is Firefox. I switched the default back to IE 6 and ran steps 1 – 6 in that environment. No change. Now how do I switch it back again? (Kidding. I’ve written it down somewhere.)

John

1. I turned both inbound and outbound MailSafe protection in ZA, rebooted, and did the above six steps. After I closed everything down still two Outlook.exe lines showed in the Task Manager list. I then shut down ZA completely. Did the same and the same thing happened. Reset ZA back to its norm.

2. Office 2003 was installed by Dell as a clean copy (new,empty .pst file) when I bought the PC. I have not re-installed anything. I did use the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard that came with Windows ME to transfer all office settings. That, however, was two years ago and this MCI Command Handling Window to delete each Outlook process in the task list only started some months ago.

3. IM. The following is from FireFox Help when I searched on Instant Message. The section is how to enable IM.
Quote… Enable Instant Messaging
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Other tab.
Under Person Names, select the Enable Person Names Smart Tag check box, and then select the Display Messenger Status in the From Field check box.
Unquote… Their terminology seems odd, but in those terms…

The Enable Person Names Smart Tag check box is checked.
The Display Messenger Status in the From Field check box is Not checked.

John