Outlook 2010 QAT file not found error – unable to change QAT

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 … cannot change my Outlook 2010 Quick Access Toolbar.  When I try to do so, I get an error message “the file does not exist.”  A web search indicated that the fix is to delete the access.officeUI file to force Outlook to create a new one.  However, I do not find any such file … It turns out that this was due to a missing sound file, if you can believe it. I was able to fix this by unchecking the “Play reminder sound:” in the Advanced section under Outlook Files/Options.

  • Outlook / File / Options / Advanced /
  • uncheck Play reminder sound
  • On QAT, right click and Customize Quick Access Toolbar
    • Choose Macros from Choose commands
      • Add
      • Press OK which should now save correctly.

As it turns out the file combo box was empty. This happened during upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as the Office14 folder moved to Program Files/Office14.

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Windows 10 changes – “previous versions” are now File History

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Surprise?! After Windows 7 System Restore no longer keeps backup copies of previous versions of your files. File History isn’t enabled by default, so you can’t restore previous versions of files unless make some changes.

Go to File History and add an external drive.

File History only backs up copies of files that are in the Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, and Desktop folders and the OneDrive files available offline on your PC. If you have files or folders elsewhere that you want backed up, you can add them to one of these folders.

Surprise #2. It will start backing up every file on your system without asking!

The reason I thought about using this feature is when my old Vista was hacked by ransomware, after I got control of the PC again, I was able to recovery all files (back to the previous version.)

External: Other choices of backing up your data.

Settings:

Make changes here as needed.

 

 

 

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Windows – 7 – Network Search workaround

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Here’s something which worked.

… simply index the network files as a workaround.
Add a non-indexed UNC as a library
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1. Create a folder on your hard drive for shares. i.e. c:\share
2. Create another folder in the above share. i.e. c:\share\music
2. Link the Library to this folder.
3. Delete the folder.
4. Use the mklink in an elevated command prompt to make a symbolic link. Name the link the same as the folder you created above.
i.e – mklink /d c:\share\music \\server\music
5. Done. Now you have non-indexed UNC path as a library.
Cecilia Zhou

But it appears to be slow.
Here’s another reference to the same topic.

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Windows Special Folders

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Windows special folder list and CLSID identifier codes.

e.g. Open Windows Explorer directly to Favorites, change the properties like this:
%windir%\explorer.exe Shell:::{323CA680-C24D-4099-B94D-446DD2D7249E}

Launching Windows Special Folders – Rainmeter Tips & TricksWindows has many “special folders” like “My Computer” and “Recycle Bin” that are not part of the normal folder system you can specify with a “path” on an !Execute statement in Rainmeter, or launch differently then they appear in Explorer.

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Also:

Windows 7 Documents:
explorer shell:DocumentsLibrary

Windows 7 Desktop:
explorer shell:Desktop

Windows 7 My Computer:
explorer shell:MyComputerFolder

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