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MS has taken a leaf out of “Alice in Wonderland” to further enhance Winspeak:

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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean

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The secret lies in All Users versus individual users. Hans has an answer here, and Mark gives an excellent step by step, right here.

That’s MS consistency for you. You can rename some drive names in explorer, but not all. Learn something new everyday.

My PC has the following drives & behaviour:

A: 3

I think the closest you’ll get to changing the drive label is to create a shortcut, and rename it to suit.

As Bryan says, you’re trying to change the disk label (click the “?” on the dialog title bar & then the input box). When you bring up the same dialog with a CD in the drive, it shows the name of the CD. Same in explorer – without a CD, you see the generic drive name, with a CD in the drive you see the disk name.

Ahhh

I think I understand the functionality you have with Eudora. I’m not so sure about why it’s important for your client, apart from keeping mail from different sources separate. That is, why is it needed (or what user function does it serve)? Maybe there’s an opportunity to review the user processes for any hint of “that’s the way it’s always been done”?

Anyway, is there a chance you could “fake” the source separation functionality, with rules? That is, create a folder for each mail source, and a corresponding rule to direct mail from each source to its associated folder. If needed, you could create shortcuts to use each of these folders as a start up folder for Outlook (I think there’s a command line switch for this).

This won’t function exactly way Eudora does. However, you could try to sell any differences as improvements.

If you still have this problem, you may find the solution via Office 2000 quits immediately on Win XP.

Dave, at the risk of somewhat unravelling this thread, I have a couple of questions:

First, about “install for allusers”. I’ve seen this mentioned in a few places, but not in real life on my system (XP Home SP1 & O2K Pro SR1a). Did I somehow miss it when I installed (& reinstalled ) Office? Should that option appear when installing software other than Office? Or is it inapplicable for my situation?

Second, you seem like someone who’d know the answer to my query re Office 2000 quits immediately on Win XP? If so, could you give me a yea, nay, or guidance there?

Part of the answer to your quest may lie in the thread Unsolicited Webpopups – the new Spam?. About halfway through, in a post by R2 is the following:[indent]

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Disallowing SVCHOST to accept connections (In ZA terms denying it server access) will assure that Net Send commands from outside your Network will never get to you.

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[/indent]I’ve had server access for svchost.exe (aka Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) disabled since last year without obvious problems. I would have passed on this reference sooner, had I been able to remember where I’d seen it.

Another, probably effective, solution, but, alas too late. Thanks anyway.

Now that you’ve reminded me about VBA, it probably would have been even quicker and simpler to use AutoIt, or a simple keyboard macro recorder to create a simple script or macro.

Maybe next time

True – Not in Outlook. But

Glad it all worked out for you, John.

An end note to save time for others that chance on this thread:

If you’re on Windows XP, save yourself some time & ignore the O2K remover utility references. I went to download them, just in case. The CD1 remover article was last reviewed in September ’02, and states: [indent]

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Version 3.1 dated April 25, 2002:

The utility is disabled when Microsoft Windows XP is installed.

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[/indent]Obviously it may be updated for XP sometime in the future, but I won’t hold my breath for it. I didn’t bother checking on the CD2 remover.

No guarantees, but maybe it had something to do with font sizing? I’m fairly sure that at one stage I had a two row task bar with three rows of icons (in W98). Maybe not so weird after all?

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I should be able to put my data wherever I choose to.

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[/indent]Couldn’t agree more – all that remains is to convince Bill .
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Restricting yourself to “supposed and undocumented” software limitations is counter-intuitive and stupid.

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[/indent]We all make choices, and most of them involve compromise. This is akin to saying that “using MS products is counter-intuitive and stupid” ( may be a grain of truth in there somewhere.) I’ve worked with, and around MS idiosyncracies since they managed to bury CP/M with the inferior MS-DOS (no, I’m not quite that old, just an early adopter ). Part of the deal is that you win some, Bill wins more. You make the best of your end of the deal, or get ulcers & go . Of course you may also throw in the odd , aimed at the right target, safe in the knowledge that MS will probably recover.

I keep glancing over at the freedom of choice in the Linux & Open Office world, but so far can’t see the mileage in switching.

Maybe you are ready for the jump?