Outlook not saving passwords after Vista upgrade

[Carmine Castiglia]

After installing the Vista Ultimate upgrade on an XP Pro/SP2 system, I find
that Outlook 2002/SP2 will no longer store mail account passwords. I enter
passwords and ensure that the "Save password" box is checked, however the
next time Outlook is started the passwords are gone and I must repeat the
entire procedure.

Ideas?

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Still no luck here...

I have tried deleting the Protected Storage System Provider Key as described
in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290684/en-us without success. No matter
what I do, I get an "Error while deleting key". It seems I am unable to
take ownership of the key.

 

[Diamontina Cocktail]

I wouldnt worry. I actually installed Outlook 2002 on my XP laptop, saved
the registry keys and compared them to Vista. When I did that I found Vista
was correct but I also found that my username and Administrators were 2
different things that could be owners and my name wasnt THE owner. I changed
that and took ownership and still nothing. I rebooted, did what was
necessary etc.

What I think may be the case - and I really am guessing here if one of you
experts who do know reads this - is that Vista stores passwords differently
and we need to find out how to fix this. The alternative which is probably
going to happen eventually is that Microsoft will release a patch to fix
this problem.