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unlovedwarrior

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    desktop alerts
    « on: July 26, 2006, 11:01:04 AM »
    how do i get a desktop alert when i recieve a new email through outlook express?

    im on a dell workstation

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    Re: desktop alerts
    « Reply #1 on: July 26, 2006, 01:48:18 PM »
    What exactly is it that you're asking?  You have therm and don't want them--or the other way around? :-?

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      Re: desktop alerts
      « Reply #2 on: July 26, 2006, 01:49:45 PM »
      i want to get an alert when i recieve an email through outlook express

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      Re: desktop alerts
      « Reply #3 on: July 26, 2006, 01:56:02 PM »
      Tools, Options, General tab, and check the box for "Play sound when new messages arrive".

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        Re: desktop alerts
        « Reply #4 on: July 26, 2006, 02:00:21 PM »
        in the outlook express options? if so i could not find a general tab

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        Re: desktop alerts
        « Reply #5 on: July 26, 2006, 02:18:12 PM »
        Yes, in OE.  At the top of the Options panel, you should see "tabs" labeled General, Read, Receipts, etc.  

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          Re: desktop alerts
          « Reply #6 on: July 26, 2006, 02:22:08 PM »
          this is what i see

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          Re: desktop alerts
          « Reply #7 on: July 26, 2006, 02:28:45 PM »
          You said, in your first post, outlook express.  Now, you're showing Outlook.  They are two different things.  

          In Outlook, go to Tools, Options, Email Options, and click on the button for Advanced E-mail Options.  Check the box for "Play a sound".

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            Re: desktop alerts
            « Reply #8 on: July 26, 2006, 02:33:52 PM »
            im sorry for some reason i thought it was outlook express..

            can u show me how to put a link in my signature like rob did with his web site?

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            Re: desktop alerts
            « Reply #9 on: July 26, 2006, 03:43:15 PM »
            It's the same code you see when insert a hyperlink in a message, the code that starts with url in brackets and ends with /url in brackets.  In the url part, you need to insert the web address after "url".  For example, if you wanted to link to http://www.mysite.com, you would insert that inside the brackets containing url.  Place an equal sign, =, after url, like this: [url=http://www.mysite.com   I'll leave the /url part out now, but you have to put it, with brackets around it, at the end of the string.
            « Last Edit: July 26, 2006, 03:47:08 PM by soybean »

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              Re: desktop alerts
              « Reply #10 on: July 26, 2006, 03:47:56 PM »
              ok thanks oh i got the desktop thing to work thanks


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              Re: desktop alerts
              « Reply #11 on: July 26, 2006, 03:59:14 PM »
              desktop thing?  You were asking how to put a link in your signature block, right?

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                Re: desktop alerts
                « Reply #12 on: July 26, 2006, 04:02:34 PM »
                ok i cant get the link in my signature to work this is exactly what im typing
                unlovedwarrior rises again come check out my new web site at
                """//"www.vmodeling.com"//""

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                  Re: desktop alerts
                  « Reply #13 on: July 26, 2006, 04:03:38 PM »
                  in my signature it doesnt give a link as you can see right now

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                  Re: desktop alerts
                  « Reply #14 on: July 26, 2006, 04:11:32 PM »
                  unloved warrior

                  I know what you need but I don't know how to display it so that it shows the actual code and not the hyperlink.

                  Let's see if this does it:
                  {url=http://www.vmodeling.com/}unloved warrior{/url}

                  OK, now replace the { and } with [ and ]
                  « Last Edit: July 26, 2006, 04:16:34 PM by soybean »