25th January 2001

Coming from the "I'd Rather Be Somewhere Else" Department, Lockergnomaster Steve Janssen tells Outlook where to save attachments. "Whenever you want to add an attachment to Outlook mail, it always takes you to the Personal folder in your profile. Well, I don't keep anything there (for attachment). In Microsoft Knowledge Base document number Q253135, instructions are provided to tweak this behavior." Fire up REGEDIT.EXE and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders. Double-left-click the Personal key to open it. Now, enter the default attachment path you'd rather use. My suggestion: either the %USERPROFILE%\Desktop or %USERPROFILE%\My Documents folders. They'll work well for computers supporting more than user. When you're finished, exit the Registry editor and restart Outlook. Would you rather attach without going through the hassle? Drag & drop any file into an e-mail message window. Gee, that was difficult.