Change Registry settings for Outlook 1

[Hellooooooooo]

Hello everyone.

I'm trying to change the settings of the Outlook temp file that each user has. I have posted this in the Office Forum, but thought I would try posting here as well as it is more to do with the Win2k registry.

Here's the plot. We have Win2k Workstations with Office 2003 Pro installed connecting to a Exchange 5.5. When a user gets a email with an attachment, they double click on the attachment and open it. A copy of the file is saved in the users Temp location e.g.

C:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK### with 3 random numbers after OLK.

What I want to do is change the location to D:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK###. This way they will not be using up the space on the C Drive and stopping the virus scanner running.

I’ve had a look at the registry and tried to use the logon.vbs to write the following:

strKey="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cache"
objShell.RegWrite strKey, "D:\Documents and Settings\499465g\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files", "REG_SZ"

It changes the entry in the registry, however files are still saved onto the C: Drive.

Has anyone else played with this idea, or know of a better solution.

As it's Friday afternoon, I'm going to do runner while it's all looking good.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Laters

Marty

 

[wolluf]

suggestion

Change the location of temporary internet files from

C:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files to

D:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

(as you probably know you can do this in IE settings, general tab, Temporary Internet Files settings button).

Reboot and then delete the C: drive version.

Sounds like you really want to move the whole profile (or documents and settings) folder to the D: drive as there's lots of areas of the profile that windows reads from/writes to frequently - eg C:\Documents and Settings\Marty\Local Settings\Temp.

 

[Hellooooooooo]

Hello Wolluf.

I wanted to change the profile location to the D:, however some great legacy software that we have needs the main profile to live on the C:. It's coded into the program. Iv'e found the Registry entry that I need to alter:

strKey="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security\OutlookSecureTempFolder"

objShell.RegWrite strKey, "D:\Documents And Settings\%UserName%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files", "REG_EXPAND_SZ"

I have a logon script in vbs that sets loads of settings on logon. Im stuck now, Ive changed the Drive to D:, however I can tink how to get the %UsernName% to pick up the current loggen on user. With out this it's doing me head in.

One for the scrip gods out there i think.

Cheers

Marty