freddy

No one got any ideas? :x

Hi, I wonder if anyone could help... A small company I work for get hundreds of email enquiries everyday... they need to distribute the incoming emails evenly among 3 different people as each email comes in, so that one person doesnt have to deal with the whole lot! How can this be done, is there some software that will do this? They are using a mail server called Magic Winmail, and using Outlook 2002 (XP) to pick up the emails. Thanks, FREDDY

Hi, I've just set up a mail server (Winmail), and when sending email through the server the email show both the local IP and computer name of the sending computer, along with the local IP of the mail server. How can I stop the mail server attaching this information in the email headers? Thanks. FREDDY

Just to let you know, it didnt work. A Volume License Install doesn't seem to accept a legit OEM Key... so only solution is a fresh install ;( FREDDY

Excellent, thanks. The key is completely legit.

Does anyone know if this will work?

I've got to install SP1 on an XP machine that's using the illegitimate VLK. They've purchased an OEM version of XP Pro, as a clean install isn't an option can I just change the Product key from the VLK one to the new one they purchased. I know how to do this. From what I've read I think it should work? FREDDY

Hey, ages ago I downloaded a little utility that you could run on a computer and it would block chat programs like MSN, Yahoo, AIM... it would simply stop them running on a computer. To turn it off again you just ran the application again and it switched off. Ideal for blocking chat programs on a computer without having to fiddle with the registry, or install a program. But I don't have the program anymore... and can't find it. Does anyone know where I could find a simple program like this... probably the one I originally found. Was so useful.. dissapointed to have lost it, just spent a few hours trying to find it again without any luck! FREDDY

Got a problem with Outlook. I'm in the UK, got an XP machine with Office XP. For some reason Outlook shows all the email dates etc in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) not the UK format (dd/mm/yyyy). This is causing a problem, and is a big annoyance. I've checked regional settings in the control panel. Checked the Microsoft Office Language Settings. And explored all the options section of Outlook. Is there an obscure setting in the registry I could change? Every setting I've found in Outlook and Control Panel is set to English UK. Please help FREDDY

No, no joy at all. This morning it did work for awhile, after I had done a defrag. (computer was very badly fragmented) I've tried removing any Ad-ware, removing cookies, virus scan, done a scan disk, a defrag, reinstalling... Anyone got any other ideas please? On another computer I'm getting emails forwarded from a Rule on that Outlook Express... so it is working (picking up emails)... just the screen hangs. The machine has 512MB RAM... and plenty of hard disk space so the 1.23GB of mail shouldn't cause it. FREDDY

Wonder if you could help me with a problem I'm trying to fix on my Bosses computer! His 3 year old son was playing on his computer at work... he noticed "loads" of windows open... IE windows I assume. Now when opening Outlook Express 6, the application comes up but it then just freezes... can see the folder list but nothing else. Can only close it by ending the task. The machine is Windows XP. I've downloaded IE 6 with Outlook Express, and installed it again, that didn't solve anything. I changed the registry to tell IE setup Outlook Express wasnt installed, then tried installing again. That didn't help. He's got 1.23GB of messages in lots of .dbx files in the Outlook Express storage folder, so I tried deleting most of them and then opening it... that didn't work either (I had backed them up so I reinstated them again ) Could it be a virus? I'm not sure of other fixes to try on Outlook Express with Windows XP. Thanks. FREDDY

Sorry for the delay in this reply! Thanks very much for all your help Alec. The most simple thing ended up clearing the problem! Very frustrating! I simply ran a Windows "Disk Cleanup" on that disk, and that emptied the Recycle Bin and cleared the problem! FREDDY

I've found something on this in another forum, don't know if it's trustworthy though, any adivce? http://www.cyberiapc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2837 Here's a direct link to the recycle bin fix someone suggests, could someone check it out to see if it's safe, I've had a look at it but I've no idea what any of it does! http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/restorerecyclebin.reg I've just noticed, with the Disk Cleanup in windows. I have two hard drives, C: and D:, disk clean up says the recycle bin on drive C: is 0bytes, disk clean up for the D: drive says 6,575 KB in the recycle bin! But when I click view files....nothing in there still. FREDDY

I reduced the size of the recycle bin to 0%, for all the disks, restarted still with the same problem. How do I view the files corrupted in the recycle bin? It still looks empty when I open it with explorer. FREDDY

Thanks Alec, I'll try the suggestions when I get home shortly. FREDDY