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Oops – obviously this system does not like blank spaces used to set out a table. I’ll try again

………………………… Hyperlink opens ………………………………….. Associated Program
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BMP ……………….. Adobe PhotoDelux ………………………………. Adobe PhotoDelux
GIF …………………. IE …………………………………………………………. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
JPEG ……………… IE …………………………………………………………. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
PNG ……………….. Adobe PhotoDelux ………………………………. Adobe PhotoDelux
TIFF ………………… Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ……….. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

David

FWIW on my system (OfficeXP / WinXP Home), the following applies:

Hyperlink opens Associated Program
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BMP Adobe PhotoDelux Adobe PhotoDelux
GIF IE Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
JPEG IE Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
PNG Adobe PhotoDelux Adobe PhotoDelux
TIFF Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Windows Picture and Fax Viewer

Looks like IE is set up to “capture” JPG & GIF (the two most common picture file types?)

Interestingly, in opening from the Excel Hyperlink, MS Office cautioned about potential viruses etc, only for the PNG file (not like open formats?).

David

Not inconvenient – just does not look right having the main data plotted on the right Y axis & the supplemental data on the left (main) Y axis.

David

Many thanks for such a prompt response. I had not appreciated that.

In my current implementation, I would like it to return a value of zero if no exact match (ZIP’s not in the lookup_vector being deemed to have a “population” of zero). Hence, for this case I will continue with my array formula (having made sure that all ZIP’s are unique).

David

I got no replies from this post, so I followed up again today in microsoft.public.outlook.fax, then did some more searching on the net.

After getting a lead from an article on the Slipstick site, I eventually cracked this one !!!!!

In case anyone else is interested in viewing .awd fax files on an XP system, a copy of the solution is pasted below.

David

~~~~~~~~~~ View .awd fax files in WinXP – solution ~~~~~~~~~~

As per the Slipstick article, Microsoft provides a “conversion utility” on the Windows XP CD that is located under i386win9xmigfax.

There are two files in this directory – AWDVSTUB.EXE & MIGRATE.DLL.

Simply copy both these files to any convenient directory on your local machine & THEN ASSOCIATE the .awd file extension with AWDVSTUB.EXE.

Thereafter, to view an old .awd fax, simply locate the fax “message” in Inbox (or other folder – or the file, if it has been saved to HD) & double click on the .awd file. The fax promptly opens in Picture & Fax Viewer, just like any “new” fax. By all means save a copy (who knows how long the support for .awd will last?), but for the present, opening .awd files is as simple as viewing any new fax.

Turns out that AWDVSTUB.EXE is primarily intended as a “Fax AWD Viewer” rather than a conversion facility (the “FileDescription” within the exe is “Fax AWD Viewer 6”). Despite this, searching for “AWDVSTUB” on the MS KnowledgeBase yeilds nothing.

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re … “The way you explained it a whole new PST file is made. Is that correct?”

Yes

re … “If so, I could theoretically store that on a CD somewhere as well. Is that so?”

Yes.

As Lief has explained, this is the way to go. Very simple.

David

Lief – you nailed it!

And such a simple fix to boot.

Ever so grateful – it was a real pain.

I’m not impressed by this backdoor attempt to yet again push Messenger & by extension, Passport. Especially when it ends up costing considerable time trying to fix the resultant problems.

Thanks
Many thanks also to Jefferson & Mary for offering suggestions.

David

A further / trivia take on this problem (having just read the latest copy of WWXP !).

Attached screen print of CPU usage shows two small “blips” followed by a “large” one, another two small ones, & then another large one. The tasks causing these blips in CPU usage were as follows:

1. (small) Open email (WWXP #2.48) using Fwd
2. (small) Open email (WWXP #2.48) using Reply
3. (“large”, double spike) Open email (WWXP #2.48) by double clicking – ie directly open
4. (small) Open Word2002 from “scratch” with blank page (opened from Office toolbar)
5. (small) – don’t know (may have shifted a window with the mouse)
6. (large) Open Photoshop7 from “scratch” (opened form Office toolbar)

– all the while WinAmp3 was playing streaming radio + AVG & CPU monitor running in background etc.

Sooo – directly opening the email is roughly equivalent to opening Photoshop! (no, I’m not using Photoshop as my email editor :-).

I can (just tolerate the 5-6 seconds for Photoshop opening, but it is very frustrating that it takes the same time to open each email (time scarcely varies ragardless of whether is is 3 lines of plain text, or 3 pages of HTML). Especially since this behaviour has just started a few days ago.

The CPU usage shed any light on this problem?

David

Outlook – at least that is what I always had it on.

Yes, just checked. Both MS Word options under Mail Format are still de-selected.

Still slow as a wet week opening. The open by using Fwd or Reply is still fast, but is a bit of a pain as it marks the post as having been replied to or forwarded, so I have stopped using that trick

David

A slight twist on this problem that just dawned on me.

Opening an email (still) takes 5 – 6 secs as described, but I just realised that if I hit Reply (or Fwd) with email un-opened in Inbox (or elsewhere), then the Reply (or Fwded) email opens “instantly”.

Any further clues as to why direct opening of an email may have become so slow?

David

Unfortunately made no difference – also other programs seem to be responding OK. Pst file is getting a bit on the big side – was 770 MB so I deleted a dozen or so sent items with large attachments & compacted (made no difference to the behaviour). Now back to 622 MB – been of that order of size for a while so should not be the problem.

Will start another thread about pst file size.

OL still taking a long time to open emails. Must be something wrong.

(BTW still responding OK in the Contacts, Journal & Calendar folders)

David

Thanks for such a quick reply. I just tried turning off the AVG Control Panel (disables checking) but it has made no difference.

David

Many thanks for the detailed replies – they indeed hit the nail on the head. Yes, same problem applied to my favorites lists. That did not bother me to the same extent as I have most frequently used links (weather, White Pages, Google etc) on the Links toolbar. Like to keep the names short so I can pack as many on as I can – hence the icons become more important. A bit embarrassing that I did not pick up on the _temporary_ aspect of the issue though (clearly no budding Newton here)!

Pity that “Add ..” to Favorites does not also save the favicons. I found I can just drag the favicons from “Temporary Internet Files” to a new folder “Web Icons” that I made under “C:Documents and Settings…user…” (prefer that to “C:WINDOWSsystem32” – keeps all settings together). So far seems to work OK, but of course there are many sites without the favicons visible so I will try FavOrg.

Again, many thanks for the replies
David

XP Home certainly has fax support that is an integral part of the OS – assuming that the PC does have a fax modem, of course. Cannot share the driver within a PP network, but otherwise is very good.

Be nice if it could be set up to use a modem on another PC though. Not exactly keen on the idea of all machines on a 5 PC home network connected to broadband having a modem just for faxing!

David

Unfortunately the procedure suggested actually sends the message (or rather, attempts to) via the selected account rather than “makes it appear to have been sent” via the account. I am connected to cable, but still have my old dial up account (through a different ISP) which much of my email comes via. While I can readily download email from my old account while on cable, attempts to send email via the dialup account fail. To send mail via my old account I have to disconnect the cable & connect to the dialup account via modem. Not particularly practical, especially since my PC is the gateway machine on a 5 PC network (and I deleted the dialup stuff anyway as it seemed to be causing problems when setting up the cable connection).

Is there any simple way to send emails via one ISP while connected to a second ISP?

David