Have you ever had a need to run Lotus Notes on a machine that didn’t have the minimum resource requirements? Or maybe you just wanted to get in quickly and read your mail or check your calendar. Starting Lotus Notes in Basic Mode may be your answer.
Starting Lotus Notes in Basic Mode requires fewer resources than in Eclipse Standard Mode. We can use that to our advantage.
We want to get in and out of Lotus Notes quickly.
We are expecting to get more memory or CPU for our computer but we don’t want to hold up our upgrade process.
We actually have two possible solutions. We can modify the Notes.INI or we can change the command line that starts Lotus Notes.
Notes.INI Changes
UseBasicNotes=1
If you ever need to return to eclipse mode, simply change the “1” to “0” and restart.
Command Line Changes
Right Click on Lotus Notes icon
Find the Target (It looks like this)
“C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe” “=C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.ini”
Add –sa to the end (I always think of this as not standard)
“C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.exe” “=C:\Program Files\IBM\Lotus\Notes\notes.ini” –sa
Click OK
The syntax for the notes.ini line is:
UseBasicNotes=1
Inserting the line:
UseNotesBasic=1
does not start Notes in Basic Mode.
Good point. I had it backward all this time. Thanks for pointing it out. Jeff