Page 12      Diablo Blue    June, 2002

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When you click on a file attachment in Outlook and you accidentally un-check Always ask before opening this type of file? the option to select whether you want to open or save the file will no longer be displayed, and the file will always be opened by its default application. Here’s how to restore the option: Start Windows Explorer, select Folder Options from the Tools or View menu (depending on which version of Windows you’re using), click the File Types tab, find the file extension in the list, and click the Edit or Change button (again, depending on which version of Windows you’re using). If you’re using Windows 98, put a checkmark in Confirm open after download; if you’re using Windows XP click the Advanced button and put a checkmark in Confirm open after download. Click OK until you’re back to Windows Explorer, and close Windows Explorer. The next time you click on an attached file of this type, the dialog box with the option to open or save the file will be displayed.

Have you noticed that when you try to overwrite or delete a bunch of files at the same time that a dialog box will sometimes pop up and ask if it's OK to delete or overwrite a particular file? Then you get the options: Yes, No, or Yes to All. What happened to the No to All option? It's not there! However, you can get a No to All effect by holding down the SHIFT key when you click the No button.

On Wednesday the 24th of May I was perusing the Internet. To be more detailed, it was www.computernewsdaily.com, and there was a tip from a reader giving a description about how to see inside an email message without opening it. Surprise! surprise! because I had previously found this on my own. This is a neat thing: first open Outlook Express, click View, click Layout, Then deactivate Preview Pane, return back to the main window of Outlook Express. Right click the email message in question, click properties, click details [you can stop there to see the headers, or you can continue on], click message source and drag this to the left upper corner, then grab the bottom right corner, and drag to enlarge it to read the file if it is in text, but if its in HTML you can find something more. Don’t go too far, because you questioned this E-mail in the first place, and prudencia [my word] dictates that you do not open this potential Bomb.

Sorry, Outlook users, it doesn’t support this “message source”. What about Netscape Mail? Well I do not know, but you have already opted to live in a different world.

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Considering the cheap camera and the solar film on my window, not bad! Every minute or so, a fresh picture of the building next door beams itself up.

At the June meeting I will show you more about this software, and SNAGIT which also has this capability!