Re: Outlook Express Profile Password disappears after installing update
From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:34:23 -0700
Try using this script to force Outlook Expres to always ask for an identity
(and password) on startup.
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/tips/forceid.htm
-- Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express Please reply only to newsgroup. "Eternal" <eternal2010@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:ecNT6mJhEHA.3992@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... > In an attempt to resolve this problem I copied OE files from an outdated > PC. This didn't help. And this update you recommend so strongly is > precisely what is causing my problem. If I uninstall the update the > problem goes away. > > The require password option remains ticked after update, but I'm not > prompted for it. The only way I'm prompted for a password is if I manually > log out of the Identity. But I need it to log me out automatically if I > shutdown the PC which it doesn't. If I shutdown the PC while OE is open I > could come back a month later and it will just go straight back in without > a password. > > I removed the Use this identity option: nothing. Whether it the main > identity or not, single identity or multiple identities makes no > difference. Which ever identity it was in when the PC was shutdown it goes > right back in even if all identities have passwords. > > As I said before I've tested this on many different PCs and they all have > the same result so I know it's not specific to my PC. Simply put the > problem exist only when the update, or SP2 (which includes the update) is > installed. Without the update OE works exactly as I want it to! > > Grayson. > > > "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message > news:udQLQuIhEHA.704@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... >> Are you posting from the problem machine (from your headers: Microsoft >> Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106)? That machine is very out-of-date and >> running much less-secure versions of OE, IE and Windows. Check in at >> Windows Update ASAP. >> >> What are the other settings at File>Identities>Manage identities? Have >> you tried unchecking the 'Use this identity..." option? >> >> After installing updates, have you checked to see that 'Require a >> password' is still enabled for the identity? >> >> Is the identity-in-question the default 'Main Identity' or a user-created >> Named Identity? >> -- >> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) >> MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP >> >> Are You Ready for WinXP SP2? >> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=windowsxpsp2 >> >> What You Should Know About Spyware >> http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/devioussoftware.mspx >> >> AumHa Forums >> http://forum.aumha.org >> >> Eternal wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm running Outlook Express 6 on Windows XP. I configured my Outlook >>> Express profile with a password so I'd be prompted to enter it whenever >>> I >>> open the program. This prevented anyone from accessing my email without >>> the password. If OE is closed and then reopened without shutting down >>> the >>> PC it goes right back in, however once the PC is restarted the password >>> must be entered to get back into OE. >>> >>> Once the latest security update for OE is installed, or SP2, this >>> completely changes. If I log into OE and then restart the PC it goes >>> straight back in without prompting for password after the restart. If >>> the >>> update is uninstalled OE goes back to its normal behavior. I've tested >>> this on several different PCs of different brands within my company that >>> run Windows XP and the result is always the same. The user is no longer >>> prompted for the password after the update. >>> >>> Previously I was content with just installing all updates except the OE >>> update to prevent this problem, but now with the release of SP2 there >>> seems to be no way around this. In order to have a more secure system I >>> seem to be forced to have less secure email that is open to anyone that >>> sits at my desk (other people sometimes have to use my PC). The only >>> alternative is to not install SP2 and not benefit from the "security >>> improvements". Amazing how security can make you less secure. >>> >>> I hope someone at Microsoft can address this, and if their not aware of >>> this drawback in their security update (couldn't find any reference to >>> this problem on their support site) I hope someone can bring it to their >>> attention. >>> >>> Thanx. >>> >>> Grayson. >> > >
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