Quotes 2002 is a fun utility that lets you manage your e-mail signature files, categorize and use quotations in your e-mail. Left-click the Quotes system tray icon and see a random quotation for an occasional grin. Brighten the day with a fun, historic, philosophical, or encouraging quotation. 

Move your mouse over the Quotes icon in the system tray and you see the active Quote. 

Click your left mouse button to change the active Quote and click your right mouse button to get the menu's as explained below. But before you read more about Quotes' menu features check out what your email can look like once you have installed Quotes 2002. 

Note: Quotes can only assign the shortcut key if it has not already been assigned, which it isn't by default.

This menu item opens the help file.
 

This menu item starts the screensaver and allow the screensaver settings to be changed. For help on configuring the screensaver click here.

Make your choice for a language here. The chosen language will be used in the Quotes menus. See menu on the right for choices of languages (see illustration and help in right table).

Active Quote will be added to the clipboard.

Active Quote: 
Current random Quote file. This is the Quote that pops up when you move the mouse over the Quotes icon in the system tray.

Contents of the clipboard will be added at the end of the active Quotes data file. Read more below (Change Quotes data file).

Active Quote will be deleted from the active Quotes data file.

For definitions active Quote and active Quotes data file see 'Browse' and 'Add Quote to clipboard'.

The active Quotes data files can be changed in the menu on the left (see illustration and help in left table).  You can select multiple Quotes data files. To uncheck a chosen data file select it again. If you prefer not to reopen the menu all the time to activate multiple Quotes files read more.

The change the contents of a specific Quotes data file. The file will be opened in notepad or your configured text editor.

With this menu you can change the interval that the active Quote is changed (see illustration and help in right table).

This menu item opens the signature management windows. For help on signature management click here.

For help on connecting you signature file to popular email programs click here.

First signature will be added to the clipboard. 

First signature:
The first signature is the signature that comes first in the signature management window. Quotes supports multiple signature files.

This menu item exits the program.

Registry
Open the registry by running the regedit.exe program. You can find the registry settings of Quotes in 'HKEY_CURRENT_USERS/SOFTWARE/QUOTES'.

Change signature and exit Quotes
It is possible to configure Quotes to run, change the signatures and quit by setting the ' QuickRun' property in the registry to the value true.

If the property 'QuickShow' if set to true than QuickRun will not only change your signature but will also show a Quote on screen.

Choose Quotes data file
To choose multiple Quotes data files you have to reopen the data file menu yourself a couple of times. This can be done automatically by setting the value 'ShowDataFilesAgain' in the registry to true.

Random versus sequential
By default Quotes searches a Quote in the selected Quotes datafile randomly. Quotes can also search statically and sequentially. The registry property 'Order' can contain the values 'Random', 'Sequential' and 'Static'. When you choose Sequential or Static the registry property 'Position' keeps track of the position in the active Quote file that contains the active Quote, where in the sequential scenario this property is automatically raised on every change.