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I’ve figured a way in Outlook 2000, but have to test it in Outlook 97. The trick lies in the format. You have to set the format to HTML, then select the phrase (in my case, Privacy Statement) and then click Insert | Hyperlink. That done, type “about: You[P20]kidding[P20]me?” (without the quotes) in the URL field of the dialog box, and click ok. I left the Type field (http, ftp, etc.) showing http.
I had Outlook configured to send mails with unformatted text. You can, however, type http://www.anything.com in this mails and the address will appear as a blue, cickable underlined link. But so much for the links in mails with unformatted text. HTML formatted mails seem to be able to “save” information beyond what you type (i.e., in this case, you see “Privacy Statement” but the link behind it is completely different), just like Word, Excel, etc. Plain text mails won’t do this.

I’ll test it in Office 97 and let you know the outcome (that was the Office version in my first post)

Charlotte,

I know this isn’t really useful. In my case, I just wanted to send an e-mail to a friend o’ mine with a Privacy Statement link in the last line, and I wanted the link to open an IE window showing something like “You Kidding Me?”. Just a joke, and I wanted to know if it could be pulled off… that is, to put this link in an Outlook e-mail.
As I said before… Just can’t be beat by a machine!!! when I find out something works in a certain way, I stick to it until I find it works in a different way… It struck me to see that this “about: ” line thing had a kinda life of its own and wanted to know how it worked.

If anyone knows how to make the link work, I’ll really appreciate it.
TIA

Hey guys, sorry for the taking so much time. I just hadnt had the time to try this at home. And now I have to say…

AMAZING. I first tried to point the My Documents shortcut on the desktop to an empty C:xxx folder, but things just seemed to be the same. Just as your quote says, once i had pointed it to the new directory, whenever i double clicked on it, the directory showed up but the title bar displayed “C:My Documents”. Maybe it would take a while until windows took the new changes, I dunno; i just got fed up with this and most of the files and folders in My Documents to a new “C:My Docs” folder (I didn’t remove the .psts in My Documents cause… well, felt lazy and didn’t want to redirect outlook to the new folder). I also created a link in My Documents to My Docs so everytime i wanna save a file and windows prompts me to save it to the default My Documents folder I can easily go to MY default folder.
I’m digressing. The outcome was GREAT. A click on a folder on the left pane showed its contents right away, with no delay, flash. end of it. Just what I needed. Thank you so much guys!!!

As for PowerDesk, I tried it at work and is very fast indeed. It also has many useful features that Win Explorer lacks, but I’m suspecting it’s ad-supported (not causa the banner in the bottom, but when i start I explorer, always something shows up). Anyway, the launch bar is really useful, as so is its newly crafted search interface, the zipped files support, the customisable toolbars (dunno about other OSs, but in win 98 you cant customise your win explorer toolbars). The DriveBar is a great feature too (you can switch drives by just clicking on its button on the bar, great when you have many drives with their folders showing). All this said, im more friendly with win explorer and still prefer it, so thanks again. Didn’t want to go third-party this time

See ya around
Diegol

Leif, thanks a lot! Can’t wait to get hands to my home PC.

Just One question:

> Copy (don’t move) all your files from My Documents to a new folder and use them from there

Why shouldnt I move the files? If i just coppy them, My Documents would be as crammed as before copying them, even though I use the files from a different location.
Finally, you say “If you do not use My Documents you will find performance increases beyond belief.”. The slowdown is due to too many documents being stored in My Documents (ie, explorer looks in this directory whenever you tell it to show a specific folder) or due to actually checking files stored in My Documents (ie, you check files in that directory and from that point on exploring becomes a pain)?

Thanks again. The articles are very useful.
Diegol

Hey Mark, thanks. I knew that having a CD placed in the drive slows things down, do I never leave one spinning if I don’t really need to.

> The rest of the “slow” performance is a combination of factiors – the speed of the processor, the number of files on the disk itself, and the design of Windows Explorer itself

I really believe it might be the design of Windows Explorer, since as I said before, Win Commander “loads” things just fine, and is working with the same processor, # of files, etc. I will check out Power Desk and I’ll let you know how it does.

Thanks again
Diegol