Email Notification - 2003 1

[LadySlinger]

Hi Everyone:

I was wondering if its possible to increase the maximum seconds of the New Email Notification beyond its default max of 30 seconds.
I have a user that doesn't always notice the little envelope icon when he has new mail and when he's away from his desk, sometimes its for more than 30 seconds.

Thanks!
Ladyslinger

 

[mobyduck]

It can be done, but you'll need a calculator...

As always, backup your registry first or set a restore point.

Open regedit and navigate to

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).

Now for the calculator - the value is in milliseconds, so the max value shown below is more than 50 days...calculate an appropriate value.

Double click the key to give it a decimal value between 0 and 4294964295 (in Hexadecimal value this will be fffff448).
4,294,967,295 is the maximum value you can give to a DWORD value in the registry which is 32 bit .

Hope this helps

MD

 

[LadySlinger]

Thanks! I just tested and it works!

 

[mobyduck]

I'm surprised you doubted me....