At my workplace, we had Lotus Notes 8.5 on WinXP. Now we're moving to LN 8.5.3 on Windows 7, and some of the settings are different. On WinXP we also had access to the "Notes Basic" client (not installed on Win7) which we needed for setting up autocompletion for the address field:
I know that the Preferences contain the setting Disable type-ahead for all name fields, and it is off on our machines:
How can I turn on this incredibly convenient type-ahead without access to the "basic" client?
Best Answer
First of all: the basic client is already installed. You can always start the basic client by creating a shortcut for "notes.exe -sa" (or by using the Windows Run command to launch "notes.exe -sa").
Are you not able to turn on the setting in Preferences? Your administrator might have set a Desktop Policy to prevent this.
FYI: Here is a document from IBM describing various ways to disable the Notes 8.x Recent Contacts feature. Your administrator might need to be involved: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21267115