The answer is right before your post - Outlook 2002 requires a registry key to retain passwords that does not exist in Windows Vista. You will ALWAYS have this issue and it cannot be fixed.
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After furious head scratching, Max Findlay asked:
| I have the same problem with Outlook (in my case, Outlook on Office
| XP), the retention of password settings and Vista that clearly many
| other people have had. I've read Microsoft article 290684 and tried
| to follow its instructions. (I say "tried" only because maybe I've
| made some mistake when following the instructions.) The problem still
| isn't resolved. One suggestion is that I disable the email scanning
| section of my antivirus software (I'm using AVG / Grisoft which works
| fine on my XP machine) but I'm concerned that by doing so I might be
| vulnerable to viruses etc. Do you have any thoughts about this
| particular point -- and of course about generally getting Outlook to
| remember my password. Thank you.
|
| Max
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
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||| Does anybody know why my outlook 2002 does not retain email account
||| passwords. The passwords disappear after program is re-loaded.
||
|| That's the most common manifestation of the incompatibility between
|| Vista and OL 2002. The registry keys that contained that
|| informaiton in earlier versions of Windows do not exist in Vista.
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|| Brian Tillman
