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Very interesting update on this.

Today, just by pure chance I found that you can store more characters in the ‘Comments’ field of the ‘Summary’ tab of a files properties in Window Explorer. As stated in my original post you can only insert 258 characters in the Comments field when the view is set to ‘Simple’. There is a link at the bottom of this Window that changes the view between Simple and Advanced. If you change the view to ‘Advanced’ then you can enter a lot more text in the Comments field. How much more? Well I stopped after 5,000 characters. Thats right, five thousand characters.

I don’t know why it works this way but it does. So if you are like me and like to store information with a file and that information is more then 256 characters then switch the view to ‘Advanced’ and have at it.

One important note. Don’t ever switch back to the ‘Simple’ view and click in the ‘Comments’ field else all text past the first 258 characters will be lost whether you click on the ‘Apply’ or ‘OK’ buttons or not.

Woody, if your reading this post I would think this would make an excellent Windows XP Tip.

Ed Carden

Very interesting update on this.

Today, just by pure chance I found that you can store more characters in the ‘Comments’ field of the ‘Summary’ tab of a files properties in Window Explorer. As stated in my original post you can only insert 258 characters in the Comments field when the view is set to ‘Simple’. There is a link at the bottom of this Window that changes the view between Simple and Advanced. If you change the view to ‘Advanced’ then you can enter a lot more text in the Comments field. How much more? Well I stopped after 5,000 characters. Thats right, five thousand characters.

I don’t know why it works this way but it does. So if you are like me and like to store information with a file and that information is more then 256 characters then switch the view to ‘Advanced’ and have at it.

One important note. Don’t ever switch back to the ‘Simple’ view and click in the ‘Comments’ field else all text past the first 258 characters will be lost whether you click on the ‘Apply’ or ‘OK’ buttons or not.

Woody, if your reading this post I would think this would make an excellent Windows XP Tip.

Ed Carden

I am ineterested. I believe I can recieve attachments up to 10 GB in size so just send each seperately.

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Ed

I am ineterested. I believe I can recieve attachments up to 10 GB in size so just send each seperately.

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Ed

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it doesn’t indicate what the Envelope object is for and that’s what I’m trying to figure out. Maybe it’s an obvious answer that is just eluding me but darned if I know what it’s for.

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Ed

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it doesn’t indicate what the Envelope object is for and that’s what I’m trying to figure out. Maybe it’s an obvious answer that is just eluding me but darned if I know what it’s for.

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Ed

First – thanks for replying and I apolagize for taking so long to answer but for some reason I never got an email that someone replied and so I didn’t realize there was a post.

I have learned more about this since my post back in May and the answer is that, as you have pointed out, connecting to Exchange directly is always slower then using POP or imap. I am working on line and because of that I believe that OL and Exchange are in constant communication with one another trying to keep both synchronized which is a serous drain on performance. To address this my company has increased our bandwdth and our IT dept is looking into placing Exchange servers in each main office and have them all synchronized with one another. That way the end user does not see a drag on their side since they are synchronizing with a system on the LAN and not one on a WAN.

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Thanks for the info Tony. I had a feeling that I probably would not be able to do something like this without the use of a program that extends the Windows shell. Heavy Sigh

Hopefully this type of customization will make it into Longhorn.

Thanks for the info Tony. I had a feeling that I probably would not be able to do something like this without the use of a program that extends the Windows shell. Heavy Sigh

Hopefully this type of customization will make it into Longhorn.

Thanks to everyone for the posts. I have done some research into the next version of Windows code named Longhorn. Longhorn has many reveloutionary changes in Windows and has broken down the different areas of the product in more detail than in the past. For example the presentation piece has it’s own code name and is being treated as a seperate piece of the Windows OS. I get the impression that Microsoft is taking the Object Oriented approach to Windows where each key system is being treated as a seperate piece of a larger system. This is not to say that internally MS has not been doing this all along just that this is the first time I have seen this level of importance to each system.
The presentation portion of Longhorn is code named Avalon. Accompanying Avalon is a specialized XML format called XAML (Extensable Application Markup Language). XAML is XML in a special format similiar to the XML schemas for Word & Excel 2003. In Loghorn you will be able to construct Windows or user interfaces via XAML. You will be able to build fully functional user inetractive Windows solely with a text editor using XAML. No longer will you need a full blown programming tool like VS(Visual Studio). This is not to say that you will not ever need VS only that you will now be able to construct the simplier programs without needing VS.
XAML is very fascinating and if you have not yet read about it I highly recomend that you do. XAML is just one piece of many in Longhorn that will dramatically change how Windows works and how information works work with the OS.

Ed

Thanks to everyone for the posts. I have done some research into the next version of Windows code named Longhorn. Longhorn has many reveloutionary changes in Windows and has broken down the different areas of the product in more detail than in the past. For example the presentation piece has it’s own code name and is being treated as a seperate piece of the Windows OS. I get the impression that Microsoft is taking the Object Oriented approach to Windows where each key system is being treated as a seperate piece of a larger system. This is not to say that internally MS has not been doing this all along just that this is the first time I have seen this level of importance to each system.
The presentation portion of Longhorn is code named Avalon. Accompanying Avalon is a specialized XML format called XAML (Extensable Application Markup Language). XAML is XML in a special format similiar to the XML schemas for Word & Excel 2003. In Loghorn you will be able to construct Windows or user interfaces via XAML. You will be able to build fully functional user inetractive Windows solely with a text editor using XAML. No longer will you need a full blown programming tool like VS(Visual Studio). This is not to say that you will not ever need VS only that you will now be able to construct the simplier programs without needing VS.
XAML is very fascinating and if you have not yet read about it I highly recomend that you do. XAML is just one piece of many in Longhorn that will dramatically change how Windows works and how information works work with the OS.

Ed

Joe, so do you feel that this is a good idea and that even if I submit it to MS I’d best be prepared to write a shell replacment myself if I want to actually see something like this? I’m most curious as to whether ither out there feel that this kind of functionality would be well recieved and used or if its just me.

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Ed

Joe, so do you feel that this is a good idea and that even if I submit it to MS I’d best be prepared to write a shell replacment myself if I want to actually see something like this? I’m most curious as to whether ither out there feel that this kind of functionality would be well recieved and used or if its just me.

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Ed

What you are referencing is the closest thiing yet to what I’m looking for but still not 0 there. I have a feeling I’m going to have to just find a Windows Explorer replacement program that does what I am looking for as it does not appear that Windows has any way to make these kinds of changes to Windows explorer without writing your own custom program that is an extension of the shell .

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What you are referencing is the closest thiing yet to what I’m looking for but still not 0 there. I have a feeling I’m going to have to just find a Windows Explorer replacement program that does what I am looking for as it does not appear that Windows has any way to make these kinds of changes to Windows explorer without writing your own custom program that is an extension of the shell .

Thanks