Unblocking attachments in Office 2003

[Barry Watzman]

I want to turn off the blocking of ALL attachments in Outlook 2003.

Is there a way to do this by editing the registry?

I understand the dangers, but I also have need to exchange EXE and other
blocked filetypes, indeed I have some such attachments in old messages
(from before I upgraded) that I now cannot get to.

Thanks

 

[Barry Watzman]

Actually, I found it:

1. Make sure that Outlook is not running.
2. Open Regedit
3. Navigate to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security
4. Choose EDIT | NEW | String Value
5. Name the new string Level1Remove
6. Right Click on Level1Remove and choose Modify
7. For its value enter the file extensions that you do not want to be
blocked (use a semicolon to separate each file extension)
8. Close Regedit and you are done.

(well, it doesn't turn off blocking but it unblocks whichever and as
many blocked types as you want. A list of types blocked by default is
available from the Help function, type "blocked attachments" then "see
also" at the bottom)