RE: Ye Olde Network Password problem

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Hi Susan,

I'm so sorry to hear you've been given the runaround so badly. I was
considering the MS support route but it sounds like a lost cause. :-( It's
not about Dell, since my machine is not Dell. Plus, I never had this
particular problem with Office/Outlook 2000; only since I upgraded to 2003.

I don't see how they can deny the problem. If you do a search for "password"
especially in the Outlook forums, you see tons of posts about the same
problem. It's infuriating!

I'm having other annoying problems with outlook too, where the reminder
windows that come up are totally inconsistent about whether they pop up or
under or foreground or background. If it pops up as foreground, whatever I'm
typing is now typed into that window, so if I happen to be hitting Delete, I
wind up deleting reminders and I don't even know which ones!! (This problem
was also in Outlook 2000, even though the reminders are handled a bit
differently.) The same often happens with the Password windows -- I wind up
typing into the password area. It's crazy-making!!!

I'm so frustrated with this that I'm seriously considering looking for
another calendar/reminder program because this is getting to be more
agravation than it's worth. I don't want to do that, but unless MS is
prepared to do something about this, I may have no other choice. :-( I keep
waiting for the next Office to come out, but it's months overdue now.
Sigh.....

If I find any other solutions, I'll post it to this forum.

Jo


"Dog Lover" wrote:

Jo - if you get any kind of helpful response to your question, could you
please let me know? I'm having the same problem and it's getting terribly
annoying. I tried the registry fix, too, and it did nothing. I've also
contacted Microsoft, but they told me that I needed to contact Dell. 'Did
that and they said to contact my ISP. 'Did *that* and they said it's a
Microsoft issue. I've even tried paying the $35 to talk with a Microsoft
technician, but they were of no help. They're the ones who told me to contact
Dell.

Susan in Indianapolis

"Jo" wrote:

I see a lot of posts about this subject, and have tried many solutions from
them, but nothing works for me. I'm running Outlook 2003 on a Windows XP-Pro
machine, using several different POP3 email accounts. On a very frequent
basis, I keep getting that little message window come up that asks me to
enter my Network Password. The thing is, it already has the correct password.
So I click the option that says to Save Password (which is already selected
in my settings) and click OK and it goes through. But it doesn't retain it
and I get the same message again for the same account or a different one,
anywhere from seconds later to days later (I have Outlook set up to check
automatically for email every 2 minutes).

The email account that comes up will vary, and how often this happens also
varies from every couple of days to dozens of times a day. There doesn't seem
to be any rhyme or reason to why or when it does this. I've tried following
the instructions on this page
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290684) but it
didn't change anything. I also tried changing the security settings to log me
in automatically (can't remember off-hand where that was, but I got the idea
from one of the discussions here in the forums), but it didn't change
anything either.

It started doing this after I upgraded from Office 2000 to Office 2003 in
December 2005, and it transferred my email accounts into the new version. So,
thinking it might be an upgrade problem, I tried creating a new email account
from scratch in Outlook 2003, but it still does it.

This is driving me nuts! Could someone please help me with this? Thank you.

Jo
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