Creating a permanent new mail desktop alert in Outlook 2003

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This setting lets you enter the length of time in milliseconds for stay of desktop alert on the screen by Outlook.

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Description:
The default desktop alert setting inside outlook is 30 seconds maximum but outlook is able to keep the desktop alert for a much longer period of time, yet it displays only 30 seconds. This mail desktop alert only shows that the mail has been delivered to the inbox and no other movement. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. If the subkeys \11.0\common\desktopalerts is not present, create it as explained below. Then, create a dword value name timeon, if this value does not exist. Now, right-click and modify the value data box to give a decimal value between 0 and 4294964295. This value is in milliseconds. The hexadecimal value is fffff448. Click ok and close the registry editor. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.

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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\DesktopAlerts\]</b> key, right-click on the blank area in the right pane and click on "New > DWORD Value" to create a new DWORD value with the name "TimeOn".