Outlook 2002 asks for permission to access email addresses.

[larlyles]

Every time I try to start Outlook 2002 or use an Outlook-related feature in
another Office 2002 program I get a popup that asks to allow for 1 to 10
minutes or deny. If I choose allow, Outlook stops working. If I choose deny,
Outlook closes and does nothing. The OS is Vista Business. How can I prevent
this popup from asking to allow or deny every time I try to start Outlook? I
think this popup may be why Outlook stops working. Office 2003 came
pre-installed on the machine, but it was not activated and subsequently
uninstalled it.

 

[DL]

Did you uninstall the trial prior to installing Office?
You are aware that OL2002 is not fully compatible with Vista?

 

[larlyles]

Did you uninstall the trial prior to installing Office?
You are aware that OL2002 is not fully compatible with Vista?




No. I uninstalled Office 2003 after installing Office 2002. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook 2002 several times with no luck. This last time I uninstalled Outlook 2002, I went into the registry and searched for every instance of Outlook I could find. I deleted the ones I thought to be relevant, and then reinstalled Outlook 2002. This not only got rid of the popup security message completely, but Outlook now opens correctly instead of freezing up and closing after choosing yes from the popup message. I don't have any idea exactly what registry entry (or entries) were causing my problem, but deleting all the remaining Outlook registry entries that I found and thought were relevant took care of the problem.