to: myself
I have more than enough gripes with Microsoft products to start a blog just about that. Normally I don’t take the time or effort to write about them here. But this is a quick one in the form of an open letter to Microsoft’s Outlook team:
Dear MS Outlookers,
When I hit “reply all” I DO NOT want my own name to come up in the “To:” field, even if the email is one that I wrote. I know, I know, it SAYS “From: Chris DiClerico” and so I MUST want to reply to him when I reply-all. But I don’t. Nobody wants to. It makes you them look dumb when they send emails to themselves. It makes you look dumb for not fucking knowing that in the first place. How long have you been doing email? Seriously. Fix this problem jackasses.
While I’m at it, the fact that you can’t name colored flags something useful is truly retarded. Not that anything you do is ever smarts.
You should try GMail. It’s pretty good.
Sincerely,
Chris DiClerico
I’m tired of reentering my password every half-second.
Remember it, motherfucker!!! I checked the goddamn box!
Andrew - much as I hate defending MS, your password problem may be to do with your server, not Outlook. Open up your account settings and check ‘My server requires authentication’ under the Advanced tab (I think that’s what it says, anyway - I don’t have Outlook on this machine), and then enter your UID and password in the fields below. This might solve the problem.
Thanks, Mike.
I tried everything. It only happens once in a while and I usually have to do a system restore to get rid of it.
Aside from the password pop-up issue, I actually love Outlook.
You can try this fix. I’ve used it before and it worked fine. I take no responsibility if it breaks something or you can’t follow directions
Windows XP Fix
1. Quit all programs.
2. Click Start, click Run, type regedt32 in the Open box, and then click OK.
3. Locate and click the following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Protected Storage System Provider
4. On the Edit menu, click Permissions.
5. Click the registry key for the user that is currently logged on and ensure that Read and Full Control permissions are both set to Allow.
6. Click the Advanced button, ensure that the user that is currently logged on is selected, that Full Control is listed in the Permissions column, and that This Key and Subkeys is listed in the Apply to column.
7. Click to select the Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects check box.
8. Click Apply, and then click Yes when you receive a prompt to continue.
9. Click OK, and then click OK again.
10. Double-click the Protected Storage System Provider key to expand the key, click the user subkey folder that is directly below the Protected Storage System Provider key, click Delete on the Edit menu, and then click Yes in the warning message dialog box.
The user subkey folder looks similar to the following example:
S-1-5-21-124525095-708259637-1543119021-16701
NOTE: For every identity that you have, there may be a subkey under the Protected Storage System Provider key. To resolve this issue in all of your identities, you must delete all of the user subkeys folders under the Protected Storage System Provider key.
11. On the Registry menu, click Exit, and then restart your computer.