Is there a clever way to get all account folders to expand at star Livio 26.09.2006 21:46:01 receives Hello members Is there a way to have all personal 'Mail' folders auto expand at start-up in MS Outlook 2003, one is a a POP account the other two are IMAP (AOL) accounts. Is there some registry edit to do this, if so what is the procedure, if not, is there a third party utility that can do the job, something small, and even better freeware if pos. I've looked all over the net and found know info to help, the reason why i would like this to happen, is when mail arrives to either of the IMAP accounts the folders show no sign that anything is in them until i expand them. If, as it seems when reading similar post that request this, with no way to acheve the function, how can i make any folder appear in bold if it recieves it's own new mail, is there a way of doing this, clear directions would be great if this is a possibility. I'm running WinXP Home edition SP2 fully up-to-date. Any help, or advise would be great regards Livio

RE: Is there a clever way to get all account folders to expand at star Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] 26.09.2006 23:07:01 Not that I am aware of - only the main Outlook folders are expanded, not secondary accounts and not IMAP accounts either. -- Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook} Please post all followup questions to the newsgroups only to keep the discussion intact. "Livio" wrote: [Quoted Text] > receives Hello members > Is there a way to have all personal 'Mail' folders auto expand at start-up > in MS Outlook 2003, one is a a POP account the other two are IMAP (AOL) > accounts. > > Is there some registry edit to do this, if so what is the procedure, if not, > is there a third party utility that can do the job, something small, and even > better freeware if pos. > > I've looked all over the net and found know info to help, the reason why i > would like this to happen, is when mail arrives to either of the IMAP > accounts the folders show no sign that anything is in them until i expand > them. > > If, as it seems when reading similar post that request this, with no way to > acheve the function, how can i make any folder appear in bold if it recieves > it's own new mail, is there a way of doing this, clear directions would be > great if this is a possibility. > > I'm running WinXP Home edition SP2 fully up-to-date. > > Any help, or advise would be great > regards > Livio >

RE: Is there a clever way to get all account folders to expand at star Livio 27.09.2006 06:55:01 Thanks Milly I thought there's always some way to get any software to be adapted through the registry, i thought i read somwhere that there was a regedit to get Outlook Express to do this, surely there's something that can be done, even showing the main account folder (the closed folder) in bold would help, then atleast you'd know theres mail in that account to be looked at. regards Livio "Livio" wrote: [Quoted Text] > receives Hello members > Is there a way to have all personal 'Mail' folders auto expand at start-up > in MS Outlook 2003, one is a a POP account the other two are IMAP (AOL) > accounts. > > Is there some registry edit to do this, if so what is the procedure, if not, > is there a third party utility that can do the job, something small, and even > better freeware if pos. > > I've looked all over the net and found know info to help, the reason why i > would like this to happen, is when mail arrives to either of the IMAP > accounts the folders show no sign that anything is in them until i expand > them. > > If, as it seems when reading similar post that request this, with no way to > acheve the function, how can i make any folder appear in bold if it recieves > it's own new mail, is there a way of doing this, clear directions would be > great if this is a possibility. > > I'm running WinXP Home edition SP2 fully up-to-date. > > Any help, or advise would be great > regards > Livio >

Re: Is there a clever way to get all account folders to expand at star "Brian Tillman" <tillman1952[ at ]yahoo.com> 27.09.2006 18:37:03 Livio <Livio[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I thought there's always some way to get any software to be adapted > through the registry, Many things are configurable through the registry, but only if the programmers included the registry keys in the application. You can't customize an application in ways the writers didn't include. > i thought i read somwhere that there was a > regedit to get Outlook Express to do this, Maybe there is, but if there is, it has nothing to do with Outlook because they're not the same application and if there is, it's because OE's writers put it in the code. > surely there's something > that can be done, even showing the main account folder (the closed > folder) in bold would help, "Surely"? You can only make a program do something if the authors included the ability. Can your automobile sprout wings? Of course not, because the builders didn't include that particular feature (although there are automobiles that can fly or travel on water. See http://www.volanteaircraft.com/index.htm and http://www.amphicar.com/) > then atleast you'd know theres mail in > that account to be looked at. Do not confuse mail folders and accounts. They're not the same thing. Any folder will be bold when it contains unread items, but only non-IMAP, non-HTTP PST folder trees can stay open between subsequent Outlook invocations.. -- Brian Tillman