Enable the disabled Add-Ins

[Yahya Saad]

Dear Sirs,

Upon exiting outlook and restarting it again I am sometimes confronted
by a pop up asking me whether to disable the add-in, which if disabled the
add-ins doesn't work and I need to go to "About Microsoft outlook" and
enable it from the "disabled items". How can this be done programmatically
or in the registry.

Thank you,
Yahya

 

[Peter Pan]

Hy,
in the registry under the follow key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\AddIns
are all installed addins. For each addin is an key
named "LoadBehavior" which describe how the addin should
start. If you change the value for the appropriate addin
to "0" it won't start with outlook. The value "3" means
that the addin will start with outlook.

i hope i could help you.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

When there is a disabled add-in, Outlook creates
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Resiliency\Disabled
Items
It adds a binary value for that add-in with a name that is randomly
generated.

The Resiliency key exists if there is at least one disabled item, but if you
re-enable the add-in then the Resiliency key and DisabledItems subkey are
both deleted. So the presence of the Resiliency key serves as a general test
for the existence of disabled items. You can re-enable the add-in by
deleting the specific binary reg value, or by removing the whole key.

The path would be 10.0 for Outlook 2002 where addins are disabled.