E-mail Shortcut Trick

Do you have certain people you are always sending e-mail to? If so, try making an e-mail shortcut on your desktop or Quick Launch toolbar. Next time you need to send that person an e-mail, just double-click the shortcut and your default e-mail client will open with a new message started - already addressed.

Note that this will not work for everyone. If you have a web-based e-mail account, chances are this isn't going to work out too well. If you're using a regular e-mail program (Outlook, Netscape, etc) this should work just fine. Here's the steps:

1. Right-click an empty area of your desktop and select New, Shortcut from the resulting menu.

2. In the "Command Line" field, type in:

mailto:email@address

Where email@address is the e-mail address you want to mail to (for example, if you wanted to have my address handy, you would put mailto:steve@worldstart.com ). Also, make sure to include the colon after the "mailto" part.

Click Next.

3. Finally, give the shortcut an appropriate name, like "E-Mail Steve" or something.

That does it, your shortcut is all set. Click it and your default e-mail client should launch with the recipient's address in the "To" field.

One final note - you can make a generic new e-mail shortcut (where you type in the address) by just putting mailto: (no quotes) in the command line field.

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