MakeURL

The MakeURL application was designed to be a very simple tool for creating the proper URL from a Knowledge Base article ID number.

Extract the EXE file to the location of your choice and create a shortcut to it on the QL bar or anyother place that suits you. When You open a text file containing an article ID number, select the number and copy it to the clipboard. Then click the icon to convert that number to an actual Microsoft KB URL Of course the best method of selecting the number is to just double click it then use either R-Click>Copy or Ctrl+C.

For example if you were to select and copy either "Q229154" or "229154" to the clipboard, clicking the shortcut would change your clipboard contents to "http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=229154".

It also comes in handy if you still have text pages with the old link style on them. You can use this to update to the new style by employing the same methods.