Outlook 2002 - Program is trying to access email addresses Loop

[Mike VoIP]

All,

Hoping that someone can help me here. I have outlook 2002 which was working
fine on my old XP laptop. I recently purchased a new lapt;op with Vista,
and loaded my Outlook 2002 on this, now, when I try to access my exchange
server I get almost an endless loop of the following message;

"A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
Do you want to allow this?"

I am then given choice to say Yes or No.

I tried going through this, but there are too many of them to get through
(probably 1 for each of my 500 contacts).

Anyone know how to stop this message?

thanks

Mike

 

[VanguardLH]

All,

Hoping that someone can help me here. I have outlook 2002 which was working
fine on my old XP laptop. I recently purchased a new lapt;op with Vista,
and loaded my Outlook 2002 on this, now, when I try to access my exchange
server I get almost an endless loop of the following message;

"A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
Do you want to allow this?"

I am then given choice to say Yes or No.

I tried going through this, but there are too many of them to get through
(probably 1 for each of my 500 contacts).

Anyone know how to stop this message?

thanks

Mike

You will run into another problem in trying to use Outlook 2002 on
Windows Vista. Outlook 2002 will NOT remember passwords when ran under
Windows Vista. Outlook 2002 was coded to use pstore (protected storage)
in the registry to cache the login credentials for the e-mail accounts
defined in Outlook. 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. The result is
that you will need to supply your login credentials for each e-mail
account that you have defined in Outlook for the first mail poll
performed by Outlook. After the first mail poll, the login credentials
are reused so you don't need to supply them again. However, if you exit
and reload Outlook then you need to supply the login credentials for
only the first mail poll.

Outlook 2003/2007 are coded to use either pstore or the newer DPAPI
(Data Protection Application Programming Interface; see
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx). Mainstream
support for Outlook 2002/XP died a couple years ago
(http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2533) so there will be no
further feature changes, bug fixes, or enhancements to it which means it
will remain incompatible for use under Windows Vista.

Read:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/28
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securi...w_to_Windows_Vista#Other_features_and_changes
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756884.aspx

I'm still using Outlook 2002. Another reason not to use Vista. You're
screwed unless to migrate to a pre-Vista Windows version or upgrade to
Outlook 2003 or 2007. Vista: where "better" is worse.

 

[VanguardLH]

All,

Hoping that someone can help me here. I have outlook 2002 which was working
fine on my old XP laptop. I recently purchased a new lapt;op with Vista,
and loaded my Outlook 2002 on this, now, when I try to access my exchange
server I get almost an endless loop of the following message;

"A program is trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in Outlook.
Do you want to allow this?"

I am then given choice to say Yes or No.

I tried going through this, but there are too many of them to get through
(probably 1 for each of my 500 contacts).

Anyone know how to stop this message?

thanks

Mike

MAPILabs has a free Outlook add-on to automatically answer the security
prompt. You will probably have to select to always allow the suspect
program to have access to Outlook and thereafter you shouldn't get
prompted again. http://www.mapilab.com/outlook/security/

Another choice is ClickYes but it is less secure and says Yes to
everything, including malware (mailer trojan) that wants to use Outlook.

 

[Mike VoIP]

Thanks for the "good" I really should have know that it was an
incompatibility between microsoft products. Downgrading to XP is not an
option, so either I don't use outlook or bite the dust and purchase the
upgrade to 2003 or 7.

Ohh well, what is another $300 anyway. I guess that will go to fund the
next windows version that will fail miserably.

Mike

 

[VanguardLH]

Thanks for the "good" I really should have know that it was an
incompatibility between microsoft products. Downgrading to XP is not an
option, so either I don't use outlook or bite the dust and purchase the
upgrade to 2003 or 7.

Ohh well, what is another $300 anyway. I guess that will go to fund the
next windows version that will fail miserably.

You might want to search this and other related newsgroups. I remember
seeing someone recommended software that answers the prompt
automatically when OL2002 opens to take care of the passwords. It
wasn't free (something around $15 USD). I think I was part of that
discussion so hold on ...

Look at Matthias response in the following thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...1f0128d5946/a0c1fba6424ad15e#a0c1fba6424ad15e

It has a [rather short] trial period to let you see if it works for you
or not.