Using Vista with Outlook 2002 I can't save passwords.

[Hal]

Using Vista with Outlook 2002 I can't save my passwords. They have to be
re-entered every time I check my mail.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Using Vista with Outlook 2002 I can't save my passwords. They have to
be re-entered every time I check my mail.

You've just made a true statement. Outlook 2002 is not compatible with
Vista. Had you checked in this newsgroup, you would have discovered that
that is the most common incompatibility and that there is no fix for it, nor
does Microsoft intend to provide one, as far as we know.

 

[DL]

Thats a known problem, which wont be fixed by MS as its out of support.
Only OL2003 and 2007 are fully compatible with Vista

 

[VanguardLH]

Using Vista with Outlook 2002 I can't save my passwords. They have to be
re-entered every time I check my mail.

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) which 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 can use either pstore or the newer DPAPI which means
they work under Vista and pre-Vista versions of Windows. Mainstream
support for Outlook 2002/XP is long dead. There will be no further
feature changes, bug fixes, or enhancements to it. This means it will
remain incompatible for use under 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