judio said:
I have Outlook 2002. When I had XP, I could set an option to keep the BCC
field displayed every time I created a new email. So I would click on NEW,
and the BCC field was there and all I had to do was type in the names.
NOW, I have Vista (the worst in a long line of deficient MS products!) and I
can't find where I can do this (along with about 100 other things I can't do
with Vista). Can anyone tell me how I can set it so that the BCC field is
displayed every time I create a new email without having to go through all
the rigamarole of clicking on 'to' selecting a name, clicking on BCC, and
then saying Okay, and then typing all the names in the BCC field. I do this
with every email I send that has more than one recipient, so it's a huge pain.
So, since you are asking in an Outlook newsgroup, and because you never
mentioned using anything other than Outlook 2002, then the same features
you had in OL2002 under Windows XP are still there when you use the same
OL2002 under Windows Vista. Because you imply there was a change means
there was a change to which e-mail client you are now using under
Windows Vista but you never mentioned to what e-mail client or new
version of Outlook you changed to.
Thank you for any help you can give me. By the way, if anyone can tell me
if there's a patch for 'remembering my password' every time I close Outlook,
that would be doubly appreciated. As it is, everytime I close Outlook, when
I open it, I have to re-enter the password for each email account (twice
since my ISP requires authentication).
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. Vista
dropped pstore and went to DPAPI. For information on DPAPI, read
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms995355.aspx. DPAPI has been
around since 2001 starting in Windows 2000. 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
which means they will run under Vista and pre-Vista versions of Windows.
Mainstream support for Outlook 2002/XP has ended. There will be no
further feature changes, bug fixes, or enhancements to it. That means
it will remain incompatible for use under Windows Vista. Your
Microsoft-based solutions are: suffer with the problem when using
Outlook 2002 on Windows Vista, upgrade to Outlook 2003 or 2007, or use a
different e-mail program that runs properly on 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
The PStore keys in the registry are read-only in Windows Vista.
Removing the read-only attribute won't fix the problem. The PStore
interface used by Outlook is not available in Windows Vista. You cannot
manually edit the registry to retrieve or enter the passwords. PStore
isn't just a location in the registry with plain text data. It is a
method of encrypting the passwords using TripleDES that are cached in
the registry in a binary construct. Once a user is logged into Windows,
the CryptoAPI can be used to decrypt that Windows account's cached
passwords from the PStore in the registry. While Windows Vista no
longer provides support for PStore, it is possible to continue
supporting PStore using a program. Alas, there will be nothing
forthcoming as a hotfix or add-on from Microsoft to support PStore in
Outlook 2002 because that product is no longer supported.
A possible solution is to use a program (as a macro that runs inside of
Outlook) that manages the encrypted password for you in the protected
registry cache. If you don't want to write the macro or cannot find a
free one already written for you, there is OLAutoPW at
http://www.mgsware.de/index.php/OLAutoPW/138/0/#403. I've never used it
(because I don't use Windows Vista). Cost is 10 euro (~$16). It may
also be possible to use AutoIt, AutoHotkeys, or other keyboard macro
programs that can trigger on specific dialog windows to answer the
password prompt for you but then you need to leave them running all the
time and write up the macro that they run along with identifying the
trigger(s) on when and in which window to run their macro.
