Outlook 2007 forgets password, how do I fix it?

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When I enter a password for my email account and press 'ave password' the
next time I try to send/receive I have to re-enter my password.

I've follwed the previous instructions in editing the register and that does
not fix it.

I'm running Outlook 2007 on Windows XP Media Edition
Computet is HP Athlon X2 4600, 4 gb memory, lots of disk space

Thanks
 
Try either a new profile or delete the account and add it back, using a
different account name.
 
I have three email accounts and have deleted them and re-added them several
times. By create a new profile do you mean create a new user on my PC? If
so, I have tried that. It still doesn't work. I can't tell you all of the
things I've tried but everything I can think of short of a complete reinstall
of everything from scratch.

I have another almost identical PC (my wife's) running Vista and Outlok 2007
and it does not have this problem. I've tried reinstalling Windows XP but
since I have automatic update turned on and SP2 has been added to my original
configuration Windows says the version on my PC is newer than the version I
am trying to use to upgrade. Seems like a vicious circle.

Fortunately, WordPerfect Mail X3 seems to work okay and can remember the
password. It has a bunch of baggage too since one has to export emails to
Netscape Communicator 4.x, then import into Outlook Express, then into
Outlook to change back to Outlook from WordPerfect Mail. A very ugly
procedure and it took a long time to figure that one out.

I guess I will wait a few weeks until HP decides to provide new Vista
Drivers for my almost new Scanner and almost new Photosmart Printer and then
I'll upgrade to Vista and reinstall Office 2007. If that doesn't work I
guess I'm stuck with WordPerfect for Mail.

Thanks, any other suggestions?

Jack
 
I have a slight variation on this problem:

I have two machines running Vista Home Premium, one running Vista
Business and one running Vista Ultimate. All machines are
running Outlook 2007 and connecting (via a VPN) to a remote Exchange server.

On the VB and VU machines there is no problem - Outlook remembers the
exchange passwords fine.

On the Home Premium machines Outlook was prompting for the password every
time it was launched - despite "Always prompt for logon credentials" being
unchecked, and despite checking the "remember password" option when logging
in.

I ran the fix mentioned elsewhere in this thread (deleting the "protect"
folder, etc) and it did do something - now Outlook will remember the password
even if you close and then relaunch Outlook.

However, when you shut the machine down and restart, then launch Outlook, it
prompts for the password again. As both machines in question are laptops,
this is an issue.

Tried upgrading both machines to Business, but the installer had the options
disabled - apparently you can't upgrade from Home Premium to Business.

This is really annoying me, so if anyone has a fix I would be eternally
grateful!
 
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