Disabling that annoying question
 

I'm using Vista with Office XP. Is there any way to turn off that annoying
question that occurs every time I send an email?

The one that basically says "a program is trying to access your Outlook
file, blah, blah" and then asks for your ok for 1 to 10 minutes.

Thanks.

Disabling that annoying question
 

No, not really, although it really depends on what is causing the message
and what type of email acct you have. But you should only see it when you
use an automated system or other application to send mail, not when you
compose mail in Outlook and send it.

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"Ed" wrote in message
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I'm using Vista with Office XP. Is there any way to turn off that
annoying question that occurs every time I send an email?

The one that basically says "a program is trying to access your Outlook
file, blah, blah" and then asks for your ok for 1 to 10 minutes.

Thanks.

Disabling that annoying question
 

Disabling any anti virus scanning of outgoing messages might stop this.

"Ed" wrote:

I'm using Vista with Office XP. Is there any way to turn off that annoying
question that occurs every time I send an email?

The one that basically says "a program is trying to access your Outlook
file, blah, blah" and then asks for your ok for 1 to 10 minutes.

Thanks.

Disabling that annoying question
 

"Ed" wrote in message ...
I'm using Vista with Office XP. Is there any way to turn off that
annoying question that occurs every time I send an email?

The one that basically says "a program is trying to access your
Outlook file, blah, blah" and then asks for your ok for 1 to 10
minutes.


What is the OTHER program that you use to initiate sending an e-mail?
You don't get this message if you compose a new e-mail *within*
Outlook. It is a security feature to warn you when something OTHER
than Outlook is trying to send e-mail, like a mailer trojan.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/esecup.htm
http://www.add-in-express.com/outloo...odel-guard.php
http://support.microsoft.com/search/...mm=1&spid=2559

One solution (but not for OL2007):

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=573

Just be aware that you then allow any malware to send outbound e-mails
using Outlook (but most don't bother using someone else's e-mail
program and instead use their own mailer trojan). Of course, the
limited feature version of ClickYes is free because they want to lure
you into buying their Pro version ($20 for personal use, $40 and up
for commercial use).


By the way, you say that you are using Office XP (Outlook 2002) on
Windows Vista. There is a known problem using OL2002 on Vista: the
login password will not be remember between Outlook sessions. That is
because OL2002 was encoded to use the Password Storage (Pstore) in the
registry but Vista disallows the Pstore and requires using DPAPI (Data
Protection API). Vista still has the registry entries for Pstore but
makes them read-only.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756884.aspx
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/28

I have no interest in paying for an upgrade to OL2002 for features
that I don't need or can be handled by free 3rd party programs (like
using SpamPal's HTML-Modify plug-in to nullify externally linked
images). You'll have to consider upgrading to OL2003/2007 to get rid
of the password problem with OL2002. Or reconsider if you really want
to use Windows Vista (which may not be a choice if you bought a
pre-built computer and/or had Vista pre-installed).