At the weekend I switched on my PC, fired up Outlook 2010 and was presented with this splash screen on which the program informed me it was “Contacting: \\change-production.s3.amazonaws.com\photos\6\iw\yd…”
I’ve never seen that before.
Tag: Outlook 2010
Updating Outlook Appointments gadget for Outlook 2010
One of my favourite Windows 7 gadgets is the Outlook Appointments gadget. As gadgets go it’s pretty simple: it shows me upcoming appointments. From Outlook.
But oddly, only when Outlook is open.
Anyhow, when I upgraded Microsoft Office from 2007 to 2010 a couple of weeks ago I discovered that it no longer worked … it just complained that it didn’t have the correct version of Outlook installed.
The hack
But there is a simple hack:
- Make sure that you can view hidden and system files (Control Panel > Folder Options > under View tab select “Show hidden files, folders, or drives”).
- Close the Outlook upcoming appointments gadget.
- In Windows Explorer navigate to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\OutlookAppointmentsGadget.gadget\en-US\js\” where YOURNAME is the name of your user account.
- Open the file “outlook.vbs” with Notepad (or other text editor; personally I wouldn’t use WordPad).
- On lines 22 and 42 change the two occurrences of the number “12” to “14”.
- Save the file.
- Open the Outlook Appointments gadget again.
Outlook Tasks gadget
The same hack also works for the “Outlook Tasks” gadget.
Update
It looks like someone has released pre-hacked versions of Appointments and Tasks called iOutlook which work with Outlook 2010. The iOutlook Appointments one now offers 3, 5 or 10 appointments.