Monday, 8. May 2006, 22:11:55
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/mailalert2003.htm#permanent_alertWell permanent isn't possible but how does 50 days sound? Through the registry you can set the New Mail Desktop Alert as long as 4,294,967,295 milliseconds ≈ 50 days.
Just a little math first to clarify the working of the registry key;
- the value is defined in milliseconds
- when the registry key is set to 0 the New Mail Alert still shows for 3 seconds so this is hard coded in the program thus 3,000 milliseconds
- 4,294,967,295 is the maximum value you can give to a DWORD value in the registry which is 32 bit
- as the object that controls the time of the New Mail Desktop Alert is also defined as a DWORD and is 3000 already we cannot give the TimeOn registry key a higher value than
- 4,294,967,295 - 3000 = 4,294,964,295
- To convert from milliseconds to days we must divide the milliseconds through; 1000 to convert to seconds, then 60 to convert to minutes, then 60 to convert to hours, then 24 to convert to days
- (4,294,967,295 - 3,000) / (1000 * 60 * 60 *24) ≈ 50
After all this math it's time to tell the registry key (to open the registry go to Start-> Run and type "regedit");
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DesktopAlerts\TimeOn
If this key isn't available choose Edit-> New-> DWORD Value and name it "TimeOn" (without the quotes but case sensitive).
Double click the key to give it a decimal value between 0 and 4294964295 (in Hexadecimal value this will be fffff448).
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