AFAIK, no, because they files which are called to write the passwords are
not present in vista.

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"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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VanguardLH wrote:

Outlook 2002 will NOT remember passwords when ran under Windows Vista.
Outlook 2002 was coded to use pstore (protected storage system) in the
registry to cache the login credentials for the e-mail accounts
defined in Outlook; see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb432403.aspx. pstore is no
longer available under Windows Vista. The registry keys are still
there but are read-only so Outlook cannot record your login
credentials into those registry keys but cannot update them.

I wonder if one could modify the protection on those keys to make them
writable.
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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in
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AFAIK, no, because they files which are called to write the passwords are
not present in vista.

Accessing the registry is part of the Win32 API, so any program that
wants to store its configuration parameters can access the registry to
store them there. Because the protected storage keys are encrypted, I
suspect the crypto API would also be used. No extra files outside of
Outlook are required to write to the registry.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145679

However, it is possible the OS will interfere with the use of those
protected keys. So although the app can write to the registry and even
encrypt/decrypt the values stored there, they could be restricted from
accessing those key. I don't think we'll know if removing the read-only
accesss from those keys would get Outlook 2002/XP to work under Vista
without require the login credentials each time it is loaded until
someone tests it. I don't have Vista to do the testing.

And I tested it before I posted - so I know it doesn't work (VMWare is a
wonderful thing, as is a subscription to MSDN). From what little additional
research I did (since I have no desire to use Outlook 2002, let alone on
Vista), there are files which are needed for the PStore key to work that are
not present in Vista.

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"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in
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AFAIK, no, because they files which are called to write the passwords are
not present in vista.

Accessing the registry is part of the Win32 API, so any program that
wants to store its configuration parameters can access the registry to
store them there. Because the protected storage keys are encrypted, I
suspect the crypto API would also be used. No extra files outside of
Outlook are required to write to the registry.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145679

However, it is possible the OS will interfere with the use of those
protected keys. So although the app can write to the registry and even
encrypt/decrypt the values stored there, they could be restricted from
accessing those key. I don't think we'll know if removing the read-only
accesss from those keys would get Outlook 2002/XP to work under Vista
without require the login credentials each time it is loaded until
someone tests it. I don't have Vista to do the testing.