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It’s a long shot, but have you checked Tools > Internet Options > Advanced (tab) > Display Images (under Multimedia) – this option must be checked for images to display. If it’s not checked, some cached images may still appear, but new one’s won’t. HTH

I’ve got a slightly different approach that’s worked extremely well for me since IE 4 (and I’m still using it with XP):

Get QuickSearch – available as one of the IE power toys from Microsoft.
Do a search from the home page of your favorite search engines (search for a single word if possible, like “test”).
On the results page, copy what’s in IE’s Address bar.
Run QuickSearch (it installs on IE’s Links bar), create a new shortcut (e.g., t for Teoma) and select Custom for search type, then paste the URL from your clipboard. Finally, edit the URL to replace your “test” phrase with “%s” (without quotes).
You can test before saving, but don’t forget to click Save in the main QuickSearch window or your changes will be lost.

As an example, I took this search from Teoma:
http://s.teoma.com/search?q=Sandisk+driver…amp;search.y=16

and created a Quick Search entry for the shortcut “t”:
http://s.teoma.com/search?q=%s&qcat=1&qsrc=0

Now when I want to search on Teoma, I just type the search right into the Address Bar, prefixing the search with “t” like this:

t Word Excel “Woody’s Office Watch”

QuickSearch handles special characters (like the quotes and spaces), and sends the request to the search engine. I’ve got these set up for Google, MSKB (by Q number), and a bunch of others. Also works from the Address bar in the Windows Task bar, in case I don’t have the browser running.

Advanced Tip: If the search engine has a long URL (query string), try removing some parameters (like the click coordinates in the example for Teoma). If it’s still too long and QuickSearch’s UI won’t accept it, don’t worry. Enter a temporary phrase and save it. Then edit the Registry entry for your shortcut under

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerSearchUrl

There’s a key for each shortcut. Find yours and edit the Default value. The entry in the registry can be much longer than the UI allows, and the search still works fine.

HTH

Glad you found it. It’s even more fun trying to find the streets where your ancestors lived 100+ years ago. But amazingly, with the Internet, even that’s possible. I’ve found streets that have been renamed and gotten pictures of buildings from the 1800’s. It’s a good time to do Genealogy.

Expedia, MultiMap.com and Rand McNally aren’t detailed enough. But it looks like the Austrialian Tourism Board has a good resource at http://www.arta.com.au/street_search.html%5B/url%5D that looks more detailed. And this site came up from a few places: http://www.whereis.com.au[/url%5D

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An email message has the same problems that a web page has when it comes to securing content. Once you’ve put it out there, you have little or no control over what happens to the content. There’s an array of technologies available to extract content from the PC’s screen, from simple cut & paste to OCR programs. If it’s really for a particular person only, don’t use email. If the receiver wants to share the information with others, they’ll find a way.

To date, no one I know of has found a secure way to deliver web content that can’t be copied and/or altered.

HTH

Well, I know about it. Does that make it a known issue? It’s also appeared a couple times in microsoft.public.outlook newsgroup. Take a look at this one: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&…&oe=UTF-8&hl=en%5B/url%5D

I’ve also seen the reverse problem with my Outbox (because I don’t send immediately) – the count shows even though the messages have been sent. And I’m up to date on Office XP and IE patches.

I think the syncronization between folders and the Outlook bar is good, but clearly not perfect. I remember this in OL2K and still have it in XP on occaision.

I’m seeing the same condition on one of our machines – Outlook 2000 (CW mode) stops connecting to the POP mail server until OL is restarted. Confirmed that the mail server is available while this is happening. Running Win98, OL2K SR1 with a DSL connection for LInkSys home network. Did anyone ever come up with a cause and/or solution for this?

Looks like a “lite” version of Visual InterDev.NET, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Note that the 1.2 MB download doesn’t include the prerequisite .NET framework, which is up to a 20 MB download if you don’t already have it installed. I think web matrix is a good idea for MS, since it gives people who wouldn’t install a full web application development environment a cheap and quick way to get started with .NET.

No change – can only save multiple HTML (or mixed formats) to text fle.

That “put a copy in each directory” really bothered me. So I took a look at the script, and added a little code so that you can specify the “home” directory in the script, but run the script from anywhere. And since I like JavaScript on the server, I did a version using JavaScript, which is easier for string manipulation, but more work for interating through collections. To each his/her own…

Typical response from a web host, but you have to try. If you can get them to allow ASP (active server pages) in your web, then it’s not hard. I prefer JavaScript to VBScript, and found it’s not hard at all to list folders and files. I co-wrote an article with a colleague about using just such a script to display a music catalog (MP3s) using just the native objects available in ASP. I’ve attached some of the code from those web pages – specifically the functions that use the File System Object to list folders and files.

Of course, most normal people use VBScript, not JavaScript on the server side. And this is probably more complicated than what you need. But I’m sure you can find code samples for this in VB if necessary. If not, let me know and I’ll come up with one.

HTH

If they’re hosting you on IIS, it may be very simple – depending on whether or not they allow you any control over the configuration of your web and/or virtual directories. IIS allows directory browsing (which is what you’re doing when you get a list of files from a directory in FTP like fashion), but not by default. It needs to be turned on. If you can get this turned on for the directory you want to make public, you’re all set with no coding. If they won’t do that, you’ll need to use script as suggested in the previous responses.

HTH

Many thanks, Leif! (Helpful graphic too – loungers are the best!)

Yes, if I understand this correctly, what you’re trying to do will cause problems. While the OL98 files are on the old machine, you’re trying to execute them on your XP machine, which has different versions of the Outlook DLLs and other necessary files. Outlook doesn’t know that you’re doing it this way, so it will go looking for DLLs on XP and get the wrong version for the copy of Outlook you’re running.

I have this same kind of setup with my wife’s desktop (Win98) and my laptop (WinXP). I use a free program called Virtual Network Computing to access the Win98 desktop from my laptop. The advantage of this is that the work is actually done on the desktop. You can also do this with NetMeeting with Remote Desktop Sharing. You could perform an export on the Win98 machine (from your laptop), and then copy the exported file to the WinXP and do the import into Outlook from there.

Does that help?

From what I’ve read, you can send but not receive (or forward) certain file types. You’ll get a warning on send, but the attachment goes through. Now if the receiver of your message has the patch installed, that’s another story. There’s good information on Attachment Security workarounds at Slipstick:

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm#attsec%5B/url%5D
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup/getexe.htm%5B/url%5D

One of the recommendations is to rename the file (e.g., change exe to ex_) and include instructions for renaming the file in your message.

Outlook 2002/XP users have some additional options, including a nice COM add-in to control this behavior. See the earlier post:
http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/showflat.p…p;Number=163400%5B/url%5D

HTH