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Saturday, February 28, 2009 – Permalink –

Parameter Queries Deux

Another look at parameters

The ability to use dynamic criteria in a Query makes Access even more valuable.

David Badurina operates NlueMooseTech.com.

He has produced an Access Parameter Query Tutorial video that walks the viewer gently through the process.

The site also has information on Excel and Word.

(Parameter queries are also referenced here:
Parameter v. Form)

How to create a parameter query

Using Parameter Queries

[Edited entry from 2/26/2005]

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Friday, February 27, 2009 – Permalink –

Yeah, Sure, That's My Email

A lie will set you free

Dodgeit.com allows you to create throwaway email addresses. It then delivers the email that comes into the resulting mailbox as an RSS feed that you and everyone else who can guess at your throwaway email address can read.

Pick a throwaway address, say: NotMyAddress@dodgeit.com Give that address out to inconsequential sites.

Check NotMyAddress from homepage of Dodgeit.com.

Subscribe to an RSS feed to keep an eye on the mailbox.

Also see:
Protect Your Address

[Edited entry from 12/25/2004]

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Thursday, February 26, 2009 – Permalink –

Justify Clean Up

Minimize white space

When a document is formatted with columns, the text is often Justified. This can lead to a messy layout of words and letters.

"When justifying text in Microsoft Word use the hyphenation feature to improve the look of your page. (Without hyphens). . . unnecessary 'white space' is distributed throughout. When hyphenation is turned on the overall typographic color of the page is much more even. To enable this feature in Microsoft Word do the following: After you have justified the columns in your document, choose from the "Tools menu" > Language > then from the dropdown menu, choose "Hyphenation", then choose "Automatically hyphenate document"

FontBlog:
Typography Tip #2

BTW, this goes along with one space after punctuation.
Bill Hill - There is only one space after a period

In Woody's Office Watch look for #2:
"SQUISHED" JUSTIFICATION IN WORD

[Edited entry from 12/23/2005]

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 – Permalink –

Hide Digits

Simple obfuscation

The kid said,
"Daddy, I know the secret password!
It's star, star, star, star!"
****
You can use functions to hide parts of sensitive data.

Social Security Number 555-55-5555

=CONCATENATE("***-**-", RIGHT(B2,4))

Combines the last four digits of the SSN with the "***-**-" text string

(***-**-5555)

Credit Card Number 5555-5555-5555-5555

=CONCATENATE(REPT("****-",3), RIGHT(B3,4))

Repeats the "****-" text string three times and combines the result with the last four digits of the credit card number

(****-****-****-5555)

Microsoft Office Online:
Display only the last four digits of identification numbers

[Edited entry from 12/22/2005]

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 – Permalink –

Form Design

Fancy functionals

Here is a discussion about how to design a form for use on the web.

"Computers are supposed to make our lives easier, not more difficult. As usability-conscious designers, we can make our users' lives easier by thinking about the way people interact with our websites, providing clear direction, and then putting the burden of sorting out the details in the hands of the computers—not the users.

It's that last part that we're going to focus on here. We've all heard and read about big usability mistakes time and time again: "Don't use images or flash for navigation," "Don't use Javascript for links," and I certainly hope we're all applying those lessons in our work. It's often the smallest usability quirks, however, that create the biggest annoyances for users, especially when it comes to HTML forms. Follow these guidelines, and you'll be off to a good start."

Use the right field for the task
Give them room to type
Shorten your forms and question "mandatory" fields
Mark mandatory fields clearly
Provide descriptive labels for all of your fields
Let the computer, not the user, handle information formatting
Use informative error messages
Don't return users to an altered form

Sensible Forms Brian Crescimanno

[Edited entry from 12/21/2005]

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Monday, February 23, 2009 – Permalink –

Stars on Your Desktop

Space image wallpaper

NASA is wandering around space snapping photos with an advanced form of a Brownie SureShot.

Here is a collection of interstellar portraits and space art the can be used as wallpaper to be viewed as you warp thought the Internet.

Veil nebula

SpaceWallpapers.net

[Edited entry from 12/20/2005]

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Sunday, February 22, 2009 – Permalink –

Troubleshoot PowerPoint

Live on tape

On occasion, Microsoft presents Webcasts on interesting subjects.

Unfortunately they are usually offered at inconvenient times for people with real jobs.
Fortunately they are offered in a form that you can download or watch "on-demand".

Here's one on how to find and fix problems with PowerPoint presentations.

"This Support WebCast will define troubleshooting issues in Microsoft PowerPoint and provide an overview of when and how to use available resources such as product Help and Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. We will also discuss how to determine where a problem is occurring and how to troubleshoot specific issues such as printing, opening a file, installation, movies, and starting the program."

Troubleshooting fundamentals in Microsoft PowerPoint

Here is a list of available downloadable webcasts

On-demand Webcasts

[Edited entry from 12/19/2005]

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Saturday, February 21, 2009 – Permalink –

Where in the World is . . .

Your spy dollars at work

The World Factbook

The World Factbook provides a 'snapshot' of the world.

The online Factbook is updated regularly - generally weekly - throughout the year.

A 46 Meg zipped version is also available.

The World Factbook is in the public domain and may be used freely by anyone at anytime without seeking permission. However, US Code prohibits use of the CIA seal in a manner which implies that the CIA approved, endorsed, or authorized such use."

When you find yourself worrying about the local car wash spilling drainage into the storm sewer, look at some of these environmental concerns:

Azerbaijan

Local scientists consider the Abseron Yasaqligi (Apsheron Peninsula) (including Baku and Sumqayit) and the Caspian Sea to be the ecologically most devastated area in the world because of severe air, soil, and water pollution; soil pollution results from oil spills, from the use of DDT as a pesticide, and from toxic defoliants used in the production of cotton

www.CIA.gov

[Edited entry from 12/18/2005]

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Friday, February 20, 2009 – Permalink –

Access on Line

Free Basic Instruction

Microsoft has developed a very good collection of tutorials and samples for Office applications. They're located at Office.Microsoft.com

Even if you haven't upgraded to 2007, these suggestions will work with most earlier versions.

For Access look at:
Access 2007

If you have avoided Access in the past, a least glance at "Getting started with Access and Database applications"

Also:

Access 2003 Training Modules

These are 30 to 55 minute demonstrations.

"When you click Practice in Access at the bottom of this page, a practice database will download to your computer and open in Access, and a separate window with practice instructions will appear alongside."

[Edited entry from 12/17/2005]

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Thursday, February 19, 2009 – Permalink –

Protect Your Address

Keep the bots at bay

"Spam is an incredible problem and it is getting worse - your e-mail address is a commodity and if you put it on a web page, it WILL eventually be found, spammed and sold to other spammers. The problem is that you have a web page and you need to make it possible for people to send you e-mail from your page but you don't want to get bombarded with spam - what can you do?

First you need to understand what is likely to happen. The most likely scenario is that an e-mail harvesting robot will find your page and look though it trying to find e-mail addresses. This robot may be programmed to look for a particular list of possible characters on either side of the @ in your e-mail address or it may look for the "mailto:" in your e-mail link or any number of other tricks."

MailMe
PHP Form Mailer With Spam Blocking

<script language="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin user = "myaddress"; domain = "mydomain"; document.write('<a href="\">');
document.write(user + '@' + domain + '</a>');
// End -->
</script>
<noscript>
Here goes some text that can be seen if Javascript is disabled.
</noscript>

Also:

Mailto script
a simple little Mailto: script that allows you to choose who you want to email from a pull down menu
(View source for code)

Software Listing: Mailto
Mailcrawlers and protectors

[Edited entry from 12/16/2005]

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The following website creates a script for you to encode your email address. It is called the enoder.

http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/form

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Kevin H. Stecyk : 2/19/2009

SCORE Templates

Free business advice

SCORE is a nonprofit organization providing small business advice and training.

SCORE's 10,500 volunteers have more than 600 business skills. Volunteers share their wisdom and lessons learned in business. Our volunteers are working/retired business owners, executives and corporate leaders.

SCORE offers Ask SCORE email advice online.

Face-to-face small business counseling at 389 chapter offices.

Low-cost workshops at 389 chapter offices nationwide.

"How to" articles and business templates

Here are some of the available templates:

A Business Plan for a Start-up Business: Microsoft Word
A Business Plan for an Established Business: Microsoft Word
Bank Loan Request for Small Business: Microsoft Word
Break-Even Analysis: Excel
Competitive Analysis: Microsoft Word
Financial History & Ratios: Excel
Loan Amortization Schedule: Excel
Opening Day Balance Sheet: Excel
Personal Financial Statement Excel
Projected Balance Sheet: Excel
Start-up Expenses: Excel
4-Year Profit Projection: Excel
12-Month Cash Flow Statement: Excel
12-Month Profit and Loss Projection: Excel
12-Month Sales Forecast: Excel

SCORE Template Gallery

[Edited entry from 12/15/2005]

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 – Permalink –

RSS with Expression Web/FrontPage

Roll your own

If you like the idea of building your own RSS feed, read on.

"Learn about RSS and how to programmatically create an RSS file for your FrontPage 2003 Web site. The download that accompanies this article contains a VBA project and an XSLT file that you can use to generate and display RSS feeds.

If you spend any time on the Internet, you have probably heard of RSS, and you may decide that you need an RSS feed for your Web site. An RSS feed is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file that people can use to keep up to date with the content on a Web site. RSS feeds are frequently associated with weblogs (blogs), but you can use them for any Web site.

If you have a Web site that contains content that you frequently update, such as articles or stories, you may want an RSS feed to help your customers keep up with your updates. This article explains the XML behind RSS and provides a Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) project that you can use to programmatically generate an RSS feed for your FrontPage Web site. The download for this article includes an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) file that you can use to display the RSS XML file in a browser."

Microsoft Developers Network:
Creating an RSS Feed for Your FrontPage Web Site

[Edited entry from 12/13/2005]

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Monday, February 16, 2009 – Permalink –

Glossary

What does it all mean

We live in a world based on jargon and acronyms. For a little relief, try this site.

Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices are covered and more.

Security Glossaries
Multimedia Glossaries
Partner and Business Glossaries
Technical Glossaries
Non-English Language Glossaries

Microsoft Glossary Information Center

[Edited entry from 12/12/2005]

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Sunday, February 15, 2009 – Permalink –

If We're in Trouble

It's Probably Because People No Longer Really Listen

Yes, now we can add Iraq to the evils perpetuated by PowerPoint.

"Not only is it easier to throw together a stack of PowerPoint slides than it is to write that 10,000-word document, it is much easier to leave out or gloss over parts of the project that might not survive close scrutiny if they were described in complete sentences. Can you say "weapons of mass destruction?" If we cut to the heart of this current controversy about whether Iraq really had WMD, whether the U.S. honestly believed Iraq had WMD, and who got it wrong, I'm sure we'll end up with a guilty PowerPoint stack. In that stack, you'll find a slide containing the words "Iraq" and "WMD" but taken out of context, there is no way of knowing what the presenter even intended the slide to mean. Thus, we have plausible deniability through PowerPoint."

For eight years from 1987-95, Robert X. Cringely wrote the Notes From the Field column in InfoWorld, a weekly computer trade newspaper. He is also the author of the best-selling book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date.
Most recently, Cringely is the host and writer of the hit PBS-TV miniseries "Electric Money."

If We're in Trouble

Robert X. Cringely (www.pbs.org/cringely/)

[Edited entry from 2/11/2005]

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Saturday, February 14, 2009 – Permalink –

Dictionary means - never having to say huh?

Google dictionary

"To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word "define," then a space, and then the word(s) you want defined. If Google has seen a definition for the word or phrase on the Web, it will retrieve that information and display it at the top of your search results.

You can also get a list of definitions by including the special operator "define:" with no space between it and the term you want defined. For example, the search [define:World Wide Web] will show you a list of definitions for "World Wide Web" gathered from various online sources."

Also check out http://wordweb.info/

"WordWeb Pro is a quick and powerful international English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. It can be used to lookup words from almost any Windows program, showing definitions, synonyms and related words. There are also many proper nouns and usage examples. You can search for words matching a pattern, find and solve anagrams, and optionally search a large number of extra word lists."

[Edited entry from 2/10/2005]

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Friday, February 13, 2009 – Permalink –

Data Modeling

Data bits and pieces

While a few of us may be guilty of constructing databases on the run, and then trying to clean up the mess later, the wise ones plan ahead.

What information will you need in the future? What reports are going to be requested? If you're the bean counter, do you need to count all the legumes?

"Data modeling is probably the most labor intensive and time consuming part of the development process. Why bother especially if you are pressed for time? A common response by practitioners who write on the subject is that you should no more build a database without a model than you should build a house without blueprints.

The goal of the data model is to make sure that the all data objects required by the database are completely and accurately represented. Because the data model uses easily understood notations and natural language, it can be reviewed and verified as correct by the end-users.

The data model is also detailed enough to be used by the database developers to use as a "blueprint" for building the physical database. The information contained in the data model will be used to define the relational tables, primary and foreign keys, stored procedures, and triggers. A poorly designed database will require more time in the long-term. Without careful planning you may create a database that omits data required to create critical reports, produces results that are incorrect or inconsistent, and is unable to accommodate changes in the user's requirements."

University of Texas at Austin
Introduction to Data Modeling

Finding the Perfect Fit
By Tim McLellan

AgileData.org:
Data Modeling 101

DataModel.org

[Edited entry from 12/9/2005]

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 – Permalink –

Digitally Sign

Messages

If you have a need to protect the contents of your email messages, these links should point you in the right direction.

Outlook supports the following features for cryptographic messaging:
Digitally sign an e-mail message. Digital signing provides nonrepudiation and verification of contents (the message contains what the person sent, with no changes).

Encrypt an e-mail message. Encryption helps to ensure privacy by making the message unreadable to anyone other than the intended recipient.

There are additional features that can be configured for Outlook 2003 for security-enhanced messaging, if your organization chooses to provide support for them, including:

Sending an e-mail message with an S/MIME receipt request. This helps to verify that the recipient is validating your digital signature (the certificate you applied to a message).

Adding a security label to an e-mail message. Your organization can create a customized S/MIME V3 security policy which can add labels to messages. An S/MIME V3 security policy is code that you add to Outlook that runs automatically to add information to the message header about the sensitivity of the message content. For example, an Internal Use Only label might be applied to mail that should not be sent or forwarded outside of your company.

Overview of Cryptography in Outlook 2003

Free digital ids

Slipstick.com:
Encryption and Message Security Tools

TheTechGap.com:
Digital IDs in Outlook

Verisign:
Digital IDs

[Edited entry from 12/8/2005]

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 – Permalink –

Page Numbers

A baker's dozen of ideas

Here is a collection of tips about how to display information in Headers and Footers.

Field codes are demonstrated. Remember that the brackets {} must be inserted with Ctrl+F9, not directly from the key board.

Here's one suggestion

Display the word "more" at the bottom of every page except the last page.

Insert an "if" field into the footer.

The field in this case will be a compound entity that consists of two fields nested within a third field.

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "" "more" }

Position cursor where you want the field.

Press Ctrl+F9 to insert the field braces.

Type the field expression as it appears below, using Ctrl+F9 and arrow keys as needed to keep text within the various braces as you type.
{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "" "more" }

Select the entire expression.

Right-click the selection and choose Toggle Field Codes.
(or use Alt+F9)

WordMacros.com: Headers and footers and page numbers

[Edited entry from 12/7/2005]

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 – Permalink –

Dynamic AutoShape Link

Show the star

Here's a hint that I had forgotten about.

You can tie the result of a cell to an AutoShape.

This displays the value in a more dramatic manner.

Create an AutoShape on the Worksheet
With the shape selected, type an equal sign in the formula bar.
Enter the address of the linking cell (or click the cell)
Hit Enter

Thanks to AutomateExcel.com for the reminder.

[Edited entry from 12/6/2005]

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Monday, February 09, 2009 – Permalink –

Photo Gallery

A CSS exercise

FrontPage had a Photo gallery template, and you can also save a PowerPoint show as a web page.

For another take on the problem, here are the instructions needed to create a gallery using CSS.

Click here to see what it might look like:

How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS
By Stu Nicholls

[Edited entry from 12/5/2005]

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Labels: Expression Web, FrontPage, HTML

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Sunday, February 08, 2009 – Permalink –

Zapf Your Own Dingbat

Private Character Editor

Windows XP/Vista has its own, hidden, character creator, called the Private Character Creator .

Using Private Character Editor (PCE), you can create up to 6,400 unique characters (such as special letters and logos) for use in your font library. PCE contains basic tools for creating and editing characters, along with more advanced options.

If you want to create a new private character using an existing character as your model, you can copy the existing character to the Edit grid and then modify it to suit your needs, or you can display the existing character in a Reference window alongside your Edit grid for use as a visual reference. You can use any character from any font that is installed on your computer.

The Private Character Editor is accessed at Start>Run and enter "Eudcedit" without the quotes.

After you have constructed and saved the design of your choosing, you can access it from the Character Map by selecting Start>Run "Charmap".

Drop the Font selection list down and choose All Fonts (Private Characters), then click on the character you have created, copying and pasting it into any document.

Hermann Zapf designed some of the 20th century's most important fonts, including Palatino and Optima. He also produced a collection of decorative symbols called "dingbats", modeled after the accidental lead drippings collected by old style typesetters.

Also:
Private Character Editor — Eudcedit
By Vic Laurie

Keyboard Utilities for Windows
Alan Woods

[Edited entry from 12/4/2005]

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Saturday, February 07, 2009 – Permalink –

Can We Serve Multiple Masters?

Dual Masters and more schemes

Earlier versions of PowerPoint were restricted to only one master design scheme per show. We strained to get around that by linking shows and pasting backgrounds over the designs.

PowerPoint 2002+ changed that by allowing more than one design scheme.

A PowerPoint master with the first name of "Echo", runs a nice tutorial site named EchosVoice.com.

She has written a step-by-step tutorial to create Multiple Masters for PPT 2002 and beyond.

Makes you want to dance. (Echo's own image)

[Edited entry from 12/3/2005]

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Friday, February 06, 2009 – Permalink –

Rewind DVDs

Speed the process

Sometimes one finds a solution to a problem that is not seeking an answer.

"Guaranteed Lowest Price on the Internet for DVD Rewinding
No More Embarrassing Fines or Hassles at your Video Rental Store !!!
No Fuss — No Waiting — Do It Online — Do It Now!
Rewind your DVDs

Digital Velocity

DVD Rewinder

[Edited entry from 12/2/2005]

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Thursday, February 05, 2009 – Permalink –

Other Right Clicks

A couple overlooked

Right-clicking on objects, such as Tables, Reports or Queries, gives you the opportunity to print, copy, and work with them.

There are other options revealed by right-clicking on the Database window itself.
Right-click on the empty white space of the Database window can lead to Relationships.

If you right-click on the edge of the window, you'll find a link to Access database properties, startup activity for the current database, or open a new database.

Right-clicking on the Database window also lets you configure the items in the Groups bar.

[Edited entry from 12/1/2005]

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Wednesday, February 04, 2009 – Permalink –

Automate Word Tables

VBA examples and instructions

The Microsoft Developer's Network has a pretty comprehensive article on programmatically working with data and Word tables.

"You can look at the world as split into applications that store data (databases) and applications that present information, such as Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Increasingly, the end user demands to display database content in documents and presentations.

While Word does provide some tools for displaying tables from databases in its documents, these are somewhat rudimentary, they require a basic understanding of how the database is built, and using them involves a number of steps. In addition, there may also be security and access issues involved, requiring additional layers of protection.

The developer is therefore increasingly confronted with the task of transferring data into Word, whether in the form of tables, or as part of the document text. This article considers some of the major aspects of using the Word object model to work with tables."

Introduction to Automating Tables
Creating Tables Programmatically in Word
Populating Word Tables with Data
Adding Linking in Word Tables Programmatically
Extracting Data from Word Tables Programmatically

A downloadable document is also available for those of us still addicted to paper. Automating Word Tables for Data Insertion and Extraction [Edited entry from 11/29/2005] See all Topics

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 – Permalink –

Internet 099

Basics and Beyond

A San Francisco company called Learn the Net has produced a basic on-line tutorial about the Internet.

If you need a fundamental primer, this might be a place to look.

It is not a series of scaled down "baby talk" lessons. You can drill down though the meaning of 403/404 error codes and links to WW3 Generic URI Syntax (RFC 2396) standards.

That is if you know how to drill down.

"Throughout Learn the Net--in fact on most web pages--you will see words that are in color and often underlined. By clicking on these words, known as hypertext, you jump to other places on the page, to other pages on the site, or to other resources on the Internet."

www.LearntheNet.com

[Edited entry from 11/27/2005]

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Monday, February 02, 2009 – Permalink –

Don't Display

Logon, Logoff, Startup and Shutdown Status Messages

To turn these off:

Start Regedit
Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\system
If it is not already there, create a DWORD value named DisableStatusMessages

Give it a value of 1

To turn on:

Locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.

Type verbosestatus, and then press ENTER.

Double-click the new key that you created, type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK.

Quit Registry Editor.

NOTE: Windows does not display status messages if the following key is present and the value is set to 1:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\DisableStatusMessages

Verbose Status Messages

[Edited entry from 11/06/2005]

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Sunday, February 01, 2009 – Permalink –

MailTo Shortcut

Just a quick note

You can create a shortcut on your desk top that will start or switch to your default email application. You can also fill in parts of the message if you want.

Right-click an empty spot on the desktop and choose New>Shortcut.
In the box that says "Type the location of the item", enter something like:

mailto:All@Once.com.

The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has some other entries you may want to try. They are intended as HTML hyperlink references, but some of them work as shortcuts too.
MailTo

Outfront.net also has some information:
Getting More From 'mailto'

[Edited entry from 11/30/2005]

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