Launchy: can't use a shorcut to create a new email for a specific person using Outlook 2013

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I have shortcuts for email sending. For example I open Launchy, type "new email Steeve" hit enter and window pop ups with Steeve's email address in "To" field.

Recently, my Office was upgraded to 2013 and it stopped working. The most problematic part is that if I open shortcut's folder in windows explorer and execute them, every shortcut does what it is supposed to do. If I launch them through command line, they work fine too.

BUT when I try to launch them using Launchy, it just opens a new full outlook instance. Not a new email window, but the whole outlook.

Any ideas how to fix it? Looks like Launchy does some additional stuff compared to just executing shortcuts?

Shortcut example: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15\OUTLOOK.EXE" /c ipm.note /m email@email.co.uk

Povilas Panavas

Posted 2015-02-19T09:30:50.353

Reputation: 11

Similar issue here: http://superuser.com/questions/963031/how-do-i-set-up-a-shortcut-to-start-conemu-from-launchy-with-a-certain-task. Did your shortcut in the classic office world also contain a /c?

– eckes – 2015-08-26T12:05:59.777

Seems like Launchy has an issue with whitespace in the paths when it comes to links: http://sourceforge.net/p/launchy/bugs/353/ My issue was solved by moving Console2 to a path without whitespace.

– eckes – 2015-08-26T14:20:18.997

@eckes Yes, my shortcuts are totally the same as with the old outlook. Also, I can't move outlook to a folder without spaces :( – Povilas Panavas – 2015-08-27T19:22:38.230

Answers

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I copied Outlook.exe to a new folder path without spaces, updated my shortcut with the "/c ipm.note" flags to point to that new exe location, and it did work. Unfortunately it takes a couple seconds to open - I think it's initializing a new instance of Outlook behind the scenes.

Mike

Posted 2015-02-19T09:30:50.353

Reputation: 1