Outlook ATTACKS Itself After Service Pack 3

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Mike Fox

I installed Office XP Pro's Sevice Pack 3, and now when I click on
"Reply" to an email the following window pops up: "A program is trying
to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to
grant access? Yes? No? Now that's dumb! I can see it's an
important feature if your computer was taken over by a hacker, but
it's annoying in this case.

Is there a way to turn off the feature just for Outlook itself?

Thanks Mike
 
Really didn't help! Why is it that Outlook won't let Outlook 'reply'
to an email that came into Outlook? Even dumber, if I click on "New
Mail Message" in Outlook the window pops up saying: "A program is
trying to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you
want to grant access? Yes? No?" Is this what the programers really
intended, or do I have some settings wrong?

Mike
 
Mike,

You either have an Outlook add-in or Word add-in that's causing this
problem. Some of the most common add-ins that are known to generate this
dialog are listed on the link below. To see if it's a Word add-in, turn off
Word as your e-mail editor. If the problem goes away then it's definitely a
Word add-in. If you are not using Word as your e-mail editor then it's
probably an Outlook add-in. Now, if you still cannot isolate the problem to
an add-in, it could be something else like anti-virus or anti-spam software
or another product like Hotbar.

Hope this helps.
 
Mike,

It sounds like it is a Word add-in. The following article has information on
how to locate/isolate Word add-ins.

235678 WD2002: Legal Pleading Wizard Error Message: The Project Item Cannot
Be
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=235678

Hope this helps.

--
Greg Mansius [MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Mike Fox said:
Greg

It's WORD. Any way to stop the problem just for WORD?

Thanks

Mike
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Read the page that Greg first suggested. It explains how to disable the
Acrobat component that most likely is triggering the prompt.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Mike Fox said:
Greg

It's WORD. Any way to stop the problem just for WORD?

Thanks

Mike
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