Outlook Guru's

[TAMUz28]

Ok....
Send yourself an attachment.

double click the attachment - you get a "Open It" or "Save to file" selection of radio buttons.

At the bottom of the box, there is a grayed out box that says "Ask this for all files of this type", and it is checked.

If this box where to somehow get unchecked, how do you go about changing it back to selected?

In my particular case, All .EXE files must be saved to disk before they can be opened, as this checkbox has been unchecked, and it is no longer an option to open .EXE files from the Exch. server.

any help? ideas?

[TonyT]

try here
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe5/

[crazyman]

see if this helps:

Coming from the "Fixing The Fix" Department, Lockergnomie Edward Kreis may have discovered a workaround for the Outlook 2000 SP2 attachment security update. "I remember you where disappointed to discover that the latest Outlook 2000 patches disabled the ability to directly open 'EXE' attachments (as well as others). To enable such functionality again, you may try the following hack." In the Registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Security. If this subkey is not present, then you may not be affected. Assuming it is there, create a new DWORD Value and name it: "CheckAdminSettings" (sans quotes). Double-left-click on the newly-created option and enter the number one (1). Now, I cannot verify that this setting will change anything -- only because I did not install any one of Microsoft's Office 2000 service packs. Edward claims that it will return attachment functionality. As always, I recommend that you perform a full backup of all your vital system data before doing any serious system tweaking.

[TAMUz28]

I will try this out, thank you!