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"Peter Foldes" wrote in message ...
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"fvdasvsd" wrote in message oups.com...
Ok, I have two questions:

1. With Thunderbird I can use this with a hotkey manager to compose a
new message with Tbird "D:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird
\thunderbird.exe -compose" -- how can I do the same for Outlook
Express and Outlook 2003?


Is OE the default for mail? If so, create a shortcut which contains: mailto:
(with the colon.)

If not you could also create a Desktop shortcut (e.g. *.lnk file) which does
the equivalent of that when OE is the default, e.g. based on:

cmd_output
F:\ftype | find /i "mailto"
mailto="%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1
/cmd_output


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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