Help me restore the last closed window

By Adam Cogan in Internet Explorer 0 Comment

Quite often I accidentally close an IE window by mistake. It would be very handy to be able to reopen the last closed window using an File-Re-open Last Window option. Not sure if this can happen, but when I accidentally close an IE window by mistake, I would like to be able to do a Control+Z to undo it and have the window open again. I would like to reboot my PC and all my IE windows come back. Note: Firefox allows you reopen your tabs.

Figure: I want IE to have this "Recently Closed Tabs" feature

Figure: I want IE to have this “Recently Closed Tabs” feature

Help me reopen a previous browsing sessions

By Adam Cogan in Internet Explorer 0 Comment

Say you have 3 IE sessions and each one has 3 tabs. If I’m forced to shut down my machine, how do I reopen all those browser sessions?

IE needs to extend the current
“Reopen Last Browsing Session” feature
to
“Reopen Previous Browsing Sessions” and include a sub-menu with a number of previous sessions. I would say 10 prior sessions would be a nice number.

Note: The 3rd Party Addin for IE8 called IEPRO does not have this feature either.

Figure: I want to open more than the last browsing session

Figure: I want to open more than the last browsing session

Figure: This is the same feature as above but is lost when you install the Google toolbar

Figure: This is the same feature as above but is lost when you install the Google toolbar

Firefox does this well, IE does not.

Figure: It is easy to open a recently closed tab in Firefox. Not in IE

Figure: It is easy to open a recently closed tab in Firefox. Not in IE

Tip: Did you know it’s actually possible in IE?
Answer: Use the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+T, but it’s not in the menus. IE users are not mind readers.

Add the same menu item “Open last closed browser tab”, please.

Tip: How to remember this shortcut? Answer: It is the equivalent of Ctrl+T, which inserts a tab. To do the reverse, add “Shift” and it does the reverse

Exchange Proxy UI + get settings from the server

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

The “Connection” tab needs reordering as a minimum change.
The first two sections are hardly ever touched (Being “Connection” and “Modem”).
However the “Outlook Anywhere” is used a lot, so that should be the first section.

PS: On the “Microsoft Exchange Proxy Settings” form, we need button under the first textbox “Populate Settings From Mail Server”(or is there a security reason this could not be done).

Figure: Settings are hardly ever touched

Figure: Settings are hardly ever touched

Outlook should warn of deleted emails on the server

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

Here is my sad story…

  1. Exchange goes corrupt…. be frightened of running out of space with virtualization :-)
  2. We go back to a backup a 3-4 days old :-(
  3. Outlook (the ‘smart’ client) connects…. it sees that the server doesnt have the emails that it has… so it proceeds to quickly and violently delete hundreds of emails, from the last few days.
  4. Everybody is not happy

Why doesn’t Outlook not work better? It could say.

Since you last connected, 356 emails have been deleted from ‘Inbox’ on the server.
Do you want these emails to be deleted on your PC? [DELETE]
Do you want to put your emails onto the server? [UPLOAD]

Is there a downside to this? I can’t think of anything….

(with this feature, outlook would not just be a copy, it could be included into disaster recovery plans)

Refresh Conversation ID after changing the subject

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

I don’t think subjects should be changed today, because those use the threading in Outlook, the thread is now ruined. However people do, so I wish Outlook gave the functionality to change a subject and then use “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” to change the Conversation ID.
PS: Better still just refresh the Conversation ID after you change a subject

Figure: Need an option "Tools | Refresh Conversation ID" for use after you change a subject

Figure: Need an option “Tools | Refresh Conversation ID” for use after you change a subject

Check Names Improvement

By Adam Cogan in Outlook 0 Comment

If I get more than one contacts with the same email address when checking the names, I’d like to know which is in my Local Contacts and which in the Exchange User List. So please add a column to identify this.

For instance, if I know the one in my Local Contacts is the latest and the first one is identified as Local Contacts, I can select it easily without checking details of these two.

Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from

Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from