Re: Identity Problems with Outlook Express

See http://www.insideoe.com/tips/forceid.htm --
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Security, Shell/User)

Keith wrote:
Well, sure the identity would have been protected by the password for
the first time out - but if you forget to click "exit and log out" then
it just happily lets you back in. There's no other way of doing that
that I know about.

K

Ron Sommer wrote:
Wouldn't all of this been accomplished by creating a new Identity and
deleting the old one?
--
Ron Sommer

"Keith" <keithspragg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1159285381.090499.160180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,

I'm just writing to let you know of a problem that I recently solved
with the help of this group and for the 'tomsterdam' website, along
with a little bit of cunning.

A customer of mine had several annoying problems with their email using
Outlook Express, and after finally re-installing outlook express with
the registry setting turned on to disable OE, they were able to get
their mail again.

However, now the problem was that the Identity didn't request a
password, even though this option was turned on. The user also wanted
OE to ask for a password every time he opened OE.

So far so good - I added a second identity called "Do Not Use" which
kicked identities back in to life, and then applied the tomsterdam vbs
script method to change the shortcuts to OE so that they forced the
script to run.

http://www.insideoe.com/tips/forceid.htm
[link to the Force ID via VBS script article]

This left one last problem - as the user usually opens IE6 first, then
clicks Tools -> Mail and News -> Read mail, but obviously that does not
run the script - much googling found me the following key in the
registry

[the usual boilerplate applies - don't go and change things in the
registry unless you take a back up, etc, etc, yadda, yadda]

[HKLM/ Software/ Clients/ Mail/ Outlook Express]

From here, you can go to shell/open/command and change the (Default)
key away from "%ProgramFiles%\Outlook Express\msimn.exe" and change it
to the location of your script (I put my script in "c:\Documents and
settings\All Users\IDforOE.vbs").

This changes IE's link to Outlook Express. The last thing to change was
the most obscure of the settings, but is done for completeness. I
realised that if I clicked on an email link in a webpage, OE would
launch without asking for the identity log in - So, I went back and
looked, and worked out the following:

First, paste the following in to a new notepad file:

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

'Clear the values from the registry
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Identities\Last Username", ""
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Identities\Last User ID", ""
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Identities\Default User ID", ""
WshShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Identities\Start As", ""

'Launch Outlook Express, from a MAILTO link
WSHShell.Run "Msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1

It looks very like the Tomsterdam solution, except the final line -
notice the /mailurl:%1 there.

Save this file as OEmailTo.vbs and put it in the same place as your
other vbs script. I put it in the c:\documents and settings\all users\
folder.

Now head back to Regedit and go back to [HKLM/ Software/ Clients/ Mail/
Outlook Express]
Then navigate to:

....... Protocols /mailto /shell /open /command

and change the (default) key from ["%ProgramFiles%\Outlook
Express\msimn.exe" /mailurl:%1] (without the square brackets) to
["c:\documents and settings\all users\OEmailTo.vbs" %1] (also without
the square brackets).

Now go and check it in a web browser, and hey-presto - keeping your
identity secure is finally achieved!

Keith Spragg.
.

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