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From re-reading your post it looks like you want to have a number of email accounts available for use, so that your wife can use one from another machine, and you can use one for most of your mail and another to use when registering at internet shopping sites.

Although you’ll need to set up different accounts on OE to read these accounts, the main part of this question is concerned with setting up more than one account with your ISP.

My first ISP claimed to offer multiple email addresses, such that I could have owen@myname.myISP.com , nemo@myname.myisp.com etc, but downloading them from the mail server brought ALL the messages. If I only used the one machine I could have used rules to sort owen@ . . . into one folder and nemo@ . . . into another, but you want your wife to be able to receive hers on one machine and yours on another.

I have moved to another free ISP that does give proper separation of accounts.

My advice would be to check on the support / advice pages at your ISPs homepage and see whether they offer what you need. Probably you’ll have to use their homepages to manage the setting up of the new accounts, so make a note of the details of the username and passwords you are given. Often you end up with a page showing the settings that you can use to print off as a permanent record.

Then it’s straightforward to open OE, go to Tools / Accounts . . . and key the details of the account and server to be able to download your mail on your machine. Fill in the details of your wife’s account on her machine and you can each receive your own mail.

Hope this helps.

PS I would also thoroughly recommend Mailwasher it allows you to identify and delete spam and look out for virus infected mail BEFORE downloading anything nasty onto your machine.

Hi Oskar,
System Idle Processes is a catch-all heading for all unused CPU clicks. If Photo Shop seems to be running slow it’s not necessarily due to the lack of CPU resources. In fact, a high System Idle Processes count indicates that the bottleneck is elsewhere. More likely it’s to do with lack of Memory or a slow transfer between Memory and the Hard Drive.

Hope this helps.
Owen

Hi Oskar,
System Idle Processes is a catch-all heading for all unused CPU clicks. If Photo Shop seems to be running slow it’s not necessarily due to the lack of CPU resources. In fact, a high System Idle Processes count indicates that the bottleneck is elsewhere. More likely it’s to do with lack of Memory or a slow transfer between Memory and the Hard Drive.

Hope this helps.
Owen

I’ve been impressed by what you can do quite simply with MS Powerpoint and Paint Shop Pro Animation shop.
Powerpoint has fairly decent laying out tools that can mix images, drawing objects and text. The individual animation frames are setup as separate slides within the presentation. One of the save options is to save the images as separate gif images.
PSP animation shop can then stitch the individual static gifs into an animated image.

Here is webpage showing a nice animation that my 11 yo son put together in a few minutes . NB The animated image is about 125Kb,

I’ve been impressed by what you can do quite simply with MS Powerpoint and Paint Shop Pro Animation shop.
Powerpoint has fairly decent laying out tools that can mix images, drawing objects and text. The individual animation frames are setup as separate slides within the presentation. One of the save options is to save the images as separate gif images.
PSP animation shop can then stitch the individual static gifs into an animated image.

Here is webpage showing a nice animation that my 11 yo son put together in a few minutes . NB The animated image is about 125Kb,

HI Peter,
As well as the wise recommendation to turn off the Preview Pane for mail, you could also try using Mailwasher. This allows you to preview the text only parts of the messages before they even get downloaded from the server. Any nasties don’t need to go anywhere near your machine. Saves you from spam and attached viruses.

Free download for single mail accounts.

HI Peter,
As well as the wise recommendation to turn off the Preview Pane for mail, you could also try using Mailwasher. This allows you to preview the text only parts of the messages before they even get downloaded from the server. Any nasties don’t need to go anywhere near your machine. Saves you from spam and attached viruses.

Free download for single mail accounts.

Hi Guys,
I’ve got a reply from the colleague

“The Lotus Notes system Memo Wizard has a configuration document for each allowable memo type (about 70 types). This allows a “power user” to enter a printer name should the memos have to be printed out on a specific printer (as opposed to the user’s Default).

This system has mainly NT users but also a growing number of XP users. Prints requested from the NT users go to the old NT print servers, but prints from XP go to new Win2000 print servers. I was intending to modify the design of the config document to include two printer fields, one for XP and one for NT (although may have to be broader than that for other OSs). When the user prints a memo I was hoping to interrogate the OS and based on the result use the appropriate field for the printer name. I hope that makes some sense?!?!?

I don’t want to rely on questioning users for each print or storing a file on the local machine.”

So as it happens he’s going to be trying to differentiate between NT and XP users ( W2K was a red herring) and he may be able to use the GetVersionEx API to retrieve the version.

Many thanks for all your help.

Owen

Hi Guys,
I’ve got a reply from the colleague

“The Lotus Notes system Memo Wizard has a configuration document for each allowable memo type (about 70 types). This allows a “power user” to enter a printer name should the memos have to be printed out on a specific printer (as opposed to the user’s Default).

This system has mainly NT users but also a growing number of XP users. Prints requested from the NT users go to the old NT print servers, but prints from XP go to new Win2000 print servers. I was intending to modify the design of the config document to include two printer fields, one for XP and one for NT (although may have to be broader than that for other OSs). When the user prints a memo I was hoping to interrogate the OS and based on the result use the appropriate field for the printer name. I hope that makes some sense?!?!?

I don’t want to rely on questioning users for each print or storing a file on the local machine.”

So as it happens he’s going to be trying to differentiate between NT and XP users ( W2K was a red herring) and he may be able to use the GetVersionEx API to retrieve the version.

Many thanks for all your help.

Owen

I use Mailwasher and it’s a lifesaver. I started on the weekend of the Sobig Virus when I was getting hundreds of mail items each one with a 157Kb attachment so that my ISP connection was timing out before I could download everything from my mail server.

Mailwasher only polls for the mail header info – you can view the sender, title and size info in no time at all and this info is then routed to Mailwasher’s own servers where it is compared with their own list of probable spam messages/sources etc.

90% of the time it’s clear from the header info whether it is spam or not. If you need to view the body of the message, double click on a header and the body text is displayed in chunks – attachments stay on the server until you request them.

You can set your own list of Friends and your own Blacklist, so (unlike Emoustrap) you can still receive mass mailings (but only those you choose to download).

The main advantage of Mailwasher is that it is so quick – there’s no hanging about waiting for messages to be downloaded. When you have previewed the headers you can process the remaining messages for download. Mailwasher then signs on to your mail server and performs the server side ‘deletes’ and ‘gets’ – you get the mail and all the trash just disappears. You CAN set to bounce spam, but to be honest, the internet doesn’t need that wasted bandwidth.

So in answer to your question – the scan process is partly based on sending address, mostly on your scanning the header info; and there’s no need for a scan process on the server. You ask for ‘never downloading in the first place’, in fact that’s just what you get.

Owen

I use Mailwasher and it’s a lifesaver. I started on the weekend of the Sobig Virus when I was getting hundreds of mail items each one with a 157Kb attachment so that my ISP connection was timing out before I could download everything from my mail server.

Mailwasher only polls for the mail header info – you can view the sender, title and size info in no time at all and this info is then routed to Mailwasher’s own servers where it is compared with their own list of probable spam messages/sources etc.

90% of the time it’s clear from the header info whether it is spam or not. If you need to view the body of the message, double click on a header and the body text is displayed in chunks – attachments stay on the server until you request them.

You can set your own list of Friends and your own Blacklist, so (unlike Emoustrap) you can still receive mass mailings (but only those you choose to download).

The main advantage of Mailwasher is that it is so quick – there’s no hanging about waiting for messages to be downloaded. When you have previewed the headers you can process the remaining messages for download. Mailwasher then signs on to your mail server and performs the server side ‘deletes’ and ‘gets’ – you get the mail and all the trash just disappears. You CAN set to bounce spam, but to be honest, the internet doesn’t need that wasted bandwidth.

So in answer to your question – the scan process is partly based on sending address, mostly on your scanning the header info; and there’s no need for a scan process on the server. You ask for ‘never downloading in the first place’, in fact that’s just what you get.

Owen

Hi John,
Many thanks for your comprehensive attachment – I’ve been playing with it at home – Lots of food for thought there.

I’ve asked my colleague for more details on how he’s looking for the info, but I’ve not got a reply – so I don’t know whether he can incorporate a BATch file solution.

Windows 98 doesn’t use HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsNT for anything much; rather it uses HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion to store “Version” (“Windows 98”) and “VersionNumber” (“4.10.1998”)

Many thanks to everyone else who’s contributed – I suspect the solution will be to check whether it is WinXP and assume it’s W2K if not.

Owen

Hi John,
Many thanks for your comprehensive attachment – I’ve been playing with it at home – Lots of food for thought there.

I’ve asked my colleague for more details on how he’s looking for the info, but I’ve not got a reply – so I don’t know whether he can incorporate a BATch file solution.

Windows 98 doesn’t use HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsNT for anything much; rather it uses HKLMSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion to store “Version” (“Windows 98”) and “VersionNumber” (“4.10.1998”)

Many thanks to everyone else who’s contributed – I suspect the solution will be to check whether it is WinXP and assume it’s W2K if not.

Owen

Hi Mark,
I heard this was the case for XP, but I’m running NT 4 and I don’t have any “ProductName” under that key.
I do have a “CurrentVersion” (4), and a CurrentBuildNumber (1381), but nothing to say what actual product I’m using.

Thanks for looking though.

Owen

Hans points out the wide functionality of IrfanView, but I would like to advise people that most of the functionality is available through the command line and associated escape codes.

Using Visual Basic with its Shell command gives users programmatic control of the program, so users can add the IrfanView functionality to their own applications.
The attached file is a copy of the Help file for Command Line Options