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The ActiveWindow.Next.Activate statement produces the error Object variable or With block variable not set (Error 91). I’m not enough of a VBA programmer (yet) to figure out how to fix this.

Yes, you are correct. The vexing issue is that the toolbar shown above only appears when (a) Word is the editor and ( HTML is selected as the mail format. I cannot seem to locate the form with that toolbar.

Thanks for your post. I will go and eventually succeed in setting up a W2K boot floppy as you and Mark have suggested. One never knows when one might need it again. Interesting footnote – once W2K was installed on the system, it recognized the W2K CD-ROM as bootable. Go figure.

Thanks. I’ll give it a whirl. Why do you think that the Word meisters at MSFT have not offered this capabaility?

A form, eh. I think it’s MAIL.OFT and it’s located in the F:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeTemplates1033 folder. Unfortunately, it does not include the toolbar. I’ve embedded a screenshot of the toolbal I’d like to customize.

Sorry, I want AutoArchive to run. But I want it to use the default setting for an entire mailbox, which I set through Tools -> Options -> Other -> AutoArchive… (see attached dialog box screenshot). My understanding is that, unless one wants special settings on each folder, this will archive every folder according to the settings in the dialog box.

Here’s my problem (stupid me). A few years ago when I didn’t really understand just how AA works, I decided to establish individual settings for a number of folders. Since then I have created a few PST files to archive old messages – primarily because my mailbox had far exceeded the maximum allowable corporate size (almost a GByte). Somewhere along the way, I must have dragged some of these folders to the archive PST with their individual archive settings. Since I keep these archive PST files open in Outlook, when AA kicks off, it thinks it has to autoarchive the archive PST files, too . Hence, my original post for a way to perform a blanket disable of the individual archive settings for all folders.

Hopefully, this is clearer.

I became really frustrated and … (see © below). Anyway, data…

(a) Updated CD-ROM drive firmware – problem remained, i.e., couldn’t recognize the CD disk (“not formatted”).

( Was using Windows 98 startup floppy because of (a) above and was only floppy-based OS I had. Thanks for the pointer to Ultimate Boot Disk.

© On target system #1 today, went through the Windows 2000 install and then installed SP-3…

(d) Target system #2 – couldn’t boot from the CD but could read it after Windows 98 loaded. So, after 98 was loaded, did a SMARTDRV and went to I386 folder on my new CD and started winnt.exe. Worked fine…

Mark, thanks for all your help.

Is the Windows 2000 CD readable in another drive?
Does another CD work in the E: drive of the target computer?

• An XP system reads it fine and recognizes it as a bootable CD (of course telling me that it won’t let me install it ).
• Another W98 system reads it fine, doesn’t recognize it as a bootable CD but, when I right-click on the CD drive in Explorer and select Autoplay, it invokes setup.exe and asks me if I want to install Windows 2000.
• On the target machine:
  • BIOS boot setup is CD, Floppy, HD.
  • Doesn’t recognize the Windows 2000 CD as bootable.
  • Will not read the CD after using a W98 install CD to boot with CD support.
  • Reads another CD just fine.
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I built the “W2K w/ SP3′ integrated directory – burned it to a CDROM with the following root-level contents:

BOOTDISK.dir
DISCOVER.dir
I386.dir
SETUPTXT.dir
SUPPORT.dir
VALUEADD.dir
AUTORUN.INF
CDROM_IP.5
CDROM_NT.5
CDROMSP2.TST
READ1ST.TXT
README.DOC
SETUP.EXE
SPNOTES.HTM

When I boot from a W98-generated boot disk and attempt to access the CDROM driv – E: – I receive the following error message:

“cdr101: not ready reading drive e”

So, I cannot even invoke the winnt.exe installation file since it’s on the inaccessible E: drive.

Here are the contents of the Boot “Floppy”:

ASPI2DOS.SYS
ASPI4DOS.SYS
ASPI8DOS.SYS
ASPI8U2.SYS
ASPICD.SYS
AUTOEXEC.BAT
BTCDROM.SYS
BTDOSM.SYS
COMMAND.COM
CONFIG.SYS
DOSKEY.COM
DRVSPACE.BIN
EBD.CAB
EXTRACT.EXE
FDISK.EXE
FINDRAMD.EXE
FLASHPT.SYS
HIMEM.SYS
OAKCDROM.SYS
RAMDRIVE.SYS
README.TXT
SETRAMD.BAT
SMARTDRV.EXE

Here’s the contents of the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files:

================AUTOEXEC.BAT =================================
@ECHO OFF
set EXPAND=YES
SET DIRCMD=/O:N
set LglDrv=27 * 26 Z 25 Y 24 X 23 W 22 V 21 U 20 T 19 S 18 R 17 Q 16 P 15
set LglDrv=%LglDrv% O 14 N 13 M 12 L 11 K 10 J 9 I 8 H 7 G 6 F 5 E 4 D 3 C
cls
call setramd.bat %LglDrv%
set temp=c:
set tmp=c:
path=%RAMD%:;a:;

Thanks. I’ll try that. That certainly was clearly articulated in the “instructions”

Probably first use botches but I’m receiving the error shown in the attachment. Here’s the way the folders are setup:

W2K original I386 directory = E:W2K setupI386
SP3 expanded directory = E:W2K SP3i386

So, by my read of the MSFT directions, the command line should be

“E:W2K SP3i386updateUpdate.exe” -s:”E:W2K setupI386″

What am I doing incorrectly?

Can I create an integrated W2000 installation CD (W2000 + SP3) using a machine that is running XP?
Ref. Installing Windows 2000 integrated with the service pack

Jeff, I’ll try Personality Tranxport Pro and post my experiences. Tranxiiton allows an evaluation download that is good for 30 days or 5 migrations.

Many thanks,

RE: SP3 install – I’ll certainly do that since I have a DSL line.

Mark, is slipstreaming difficult? I’ve seen it mentioned a number of times in various posts. I pulled up Paul Thurrott ‘s “Slipstreaming Service Pack 1…” but it’s more directed at creating a slipstream setup for network servers.

How about the O2000 settings?

Lief,

Thanks for the pointers. Some good info on installing. Actually, neither of the sites actually had the Readiness Analyzer, so I did what I should have done first – I searched the Web. For the record, here’s one Web site that has the tool for downloading:

Windows 2000 Readiness Analyzer