Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

[rbeckert]

In HowTo-Outlook.com Newsletter Issue 27: Creating a
Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003 by Roady
[MVP-Outlook], he describes how to set the New Mail
Desktop Alert for up to 50 days. The instructions call
for editing the registry
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0
\Common\DesktopAlerts\TimeOn).

My registry has no "DesktopAlerts" entry
in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0
\Common\".

Now what!

Thanks

Bob

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Manually create it or modify the display time once by using Outlook. This
will create the key. If the key doesn't exist it will display the alert for
7 seconds.

In Regedit
Edit-> New-> Key; name it "DesktopAlerts" (without quotes but case
sensitive)
Edit-> New-> DWORD; name it "TimeOn" (without quotes but case sensitive)

Or in Outlook
Tools-> Options-> tab General-> button E-mail Options-> button Advanced
E-mail Options-> button Desktop Alert

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

 

[rbeckert]

In my version of OUTLOOK 2003 I found it under Tools->
Preferences-> E-mail Options...-> Advanced E-mail
Options...-> Desktop Alert Settings... . There I
found "sliders" for adjusting Transparency and Duration
(7 to 30 seconds). I adjusted to 30 seconds and closed
out. I then went to the registry and the key had been
created and I was able to modify it. Thanks for your help!

-----Original Message-----
Manually create it or modify the display time once by using Outlook. This
will create the key. If the key doesn't exist it will display the alert for
7 seconds.

In Regedit
Edit-> New-> Key; name it "DesktopAlerts" (without quotes but case
sensitive)
Edit-> New-> DWORD; name it "TimeOn" (without quotes but case sensitive)

Or in Outlook
Tools-> Options-> tab General-> button E-mail Options-> button Advanced
E-mail Options-> button Desktop Alert

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

Tips of the month:
-Properly back-up and restore your Outlook data
-Creating a Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003

-----

In HowTo-Outlook.com Newsletter Issue 27: Creating a
Permanent New Mail Desktop Alert in Outlook 2003 by Roady
[MVP-Outlook], he describes how to set the New Mail
Desktop Alert for up to 50 days. The instructions call
for editing the registry
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0
\Common\DesktopAlerts\TimeOn).

My registry has no "DesktopAlerts" entry
in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0
\Common\".

Now what!

Thanks

Bob

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