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Guest
I have read many of the questions from Outlook users here in this folder, I
have been wrestling with my own Outlook problems ever since updating my
Outlook 2000 (regretting it a ton), and I am just wondering what in the world
Microsoft was thinking when they arbitrarily and unilaterally decided that
Outlook users could not longer open "dangerous" attachments? I mean, no
warning on the update that the email program would be severely crippled. No
option to opt out from this ridiculous policy. No user option to turn it
off. Hello! I am a server-side web designer and I need to attach and open
..exe, .url, .jpg, .zip files on a daily basis and many other users need this
capability also. So what have I done? I have applied the registry settings
using the Level1Remove value for.url, but I still cannot open urls
attachments. I have looked in the Add/Remove programs for the Outlook SP3
update, but no – Microsoft did not list it there and I see no other way to
undo this damage. It is funny, the whole reason that I choose to update
Outlook was that I had naively thought that the update might fix Outlook’s
pathetic junk email filter. You know, the one that when you enter a filter
for the body of an email, it has no affect whatsoever. Or it filters only
text not within a tag. How smart is that, Microsoft? Well, the update did
no good at all, and now I am left with a crippled email program. It looks
like I have no other choice other than to reinstall Outlook. How many other
problems is that going to create with my extensive Contact list, emails, and
Calendar items. Boy, if there where another program from another company
that were available – I would jump to it in a minute, just like I have with
Firefox. Let me just finish my rant with a really big question – how is it
that such a large, seemingly successful company – Microsoft - can put out
such flawed products, and get away with it year after year? Its not like
they couldn’t make this stuff work better, its just that they choose not to.
I wonder how long this post will last? If anyone has a real solution for
this mess, I would appreciate the help.
Doug
have been wrestling with my own Outlook problems ever since updating my
Outlook 2000 (regretting it a ton), and I am just wondering what in the world
Microsoft was thinking when they arbitrarily and unilaterally decided that
Outlook users could not longer open "dangerous" attachments? I mean, no
warning on the update that the email program would be severely crippled. No
option to opt out from this ridiculous policy. No user option to turn it
off. Hello! I am a server-side web designer and I need to attach and open
..exe, .url, .jpg, .zip files on a daily basis and many other users need this
capability also. So what have I done? I have applied the registry settings
using the Level1Remove value for.url, but I still cannot open urls
attachments. I have looked in the Add/Remove programs for the Outlook SP3
update, but no – Microsoft did not list it there and I see no other way to
undo this damage. It is funny, the whole reason that I choose to update
Outlook was that I had naively thought that the update might fix Outlook’s
pathetic junk email filter. You know, the one that when you enter a filter
for the body of an email, it has no affect whatsoever. Or it filters only
text not within a tag. How smart is that, Microsoft? Well, the update did
no good at all, and now I am left with a crippled email program. It looks
like I have no other choice other than to reinstall Outlook. How many other
problems is that going to create with my extensive Contact list, emails, and
Calendar items. Boy, if there where another program from another company
that were available – I would jump to it in a minute, just like I have with
Firefox. Let me just finish my rant with a really big question – how is it
that such a large, seemingly successful company – Microsoft - can put out
such flawed products, and get away with it year after year? Its not like
they couldn’t make this stuff work better, its just that they choose not to.
I wonder how long this post will last? If anyone has a real solution for
this mess, I would appreciate the help.
Doug