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Wont save passwords
I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7.
Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? |
Wont save passwords
HB wrote:
I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Passwords are saved in an encrypted registry entry. If corrupted, the result is not entering the correct login credentials at the server so Outlook Express prompts for a new password. However, entering and remembering the new login credentials won't repair the corrupted registry entry. https://www.google.com/search?q=outl...ber%20password found: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...utlook-express Use method 3. |
Wont save passwords
"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... HB wrote: I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Passwords are saved in an encrypted registry entry. If corrupted, the result is not entering the correct login credentials at the server so Outlook Express prompts for a new password. However, entering and remembering the new login credentials won't repair the corrupted registry entry. https://www.google.com/search?q=outl...ber%20password found: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...utlook-express Use method 3. 1. To create a new profile/identity I have to get new email accounts at Gmail or somewhere. It wont let me use the account names I already have. So that wont work. It doesn't explain how to use the old account's names and passwords with a new profile in OE, even AFTER I deleted one account to see if that would work. It didn't. Also, the info on the Tabs in EO are not the same as in the article. There is no "Info", then "account settings" under the File tab in OE. 2. As for the Key. I found it OK in the registry, but even following the simple directions, I get a "Unable to save permissions. Access is denied." I saw only 1 subkey key there though I have 4 accounts on this PC. So that will not work either. Moot since access is denied. The other info there was not for OE. The "save password" is grayed out. I have the same OE software on 4 different computers and this is the only one that is grayed out and will not save them. Googling brings up a lot of info that often doesn't work. That's why I ask on the NGs, hoping to find someone with first hand knowledge who tried something that worked for them. How can everything be removed from OE so I can install a fresh uncorrupt copy? Have any idea? That is short of doing a System Recovery. |
Wont save passwords
HB wrote:
"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... HB wrote: I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Passwords are saved in an encrypted registry entry. If corrupted, the result is not entering the correct login credentials at the server so Outlook Express prompts for a new password. However, entering and remembering the new login credentials won't repair the corrupted registry entry. https://www.google.com/search?q=outl...ber%20password found: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...utlook-express Use method 3. 1. To create a new profile/identity I have to get new email accounts at Gmail or somewhere. It wont let me use the account names I already have. So that wont work. It doesn't explain how to use the old account's names and passwords with a new profile in OE, even AFTER I deleted one account to see if that would work. It didn't. Also, the info on the Tabs in EO are not the same as in the article. There is no "Info", then "account settings" under the File tab in OE. 2. As for the Key. I found it OK in the registry, but even following the simple directions, I get a "Unable to save permissions. Access is denied." I saw only 1 subkey key there though I have 4 accounts on this PC. So that will not work either. Moot since access is denied. The other info there was not for OE. The "save password" is grayed out. I have the same OE software on 4 different computers and this is the only one that is grayed out and will not save them. Googling brings up a lot of info that often doesn't work. That's why I ask on the NGs, hoping to find someone with first hand knowledge who tried something that worked for them. How can everything be removed from OE so I can install a fresh uncorrupt copy? Have any idea? That is short of doing a System Recovery. Outlook Express profiles have nothing to do with separate e-mail accounts. You can have many OE profiles and each could point to the same e-mail servers doing the same logins. You have to define what e-mail account to use within a profile. It can be the same or different e-mail account than specified in another profile. Besides, method 3 is about deleting the registry entry that recorded the encrypted login credentials, not about creating new OE profiles. The MS article mentions having to change permissions on the registry key. You must be logged in under an admin-level account to use the registry and change permissions on the registry keys. |
Wont save passwords
In message , HB writes:
I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Sorry, can't help with your problem, but the above interests me: I have a friend who is fond of OE, but is under the impression (as was I) that it won't work under 7. (There is that "OE Classic", of which the free version is rather limited and people here thought the paid version was flawed too, but I get the impression you aren't talking about that anyway.) One of the reasons my friend is staying on XP (though not the only one). Can you tell us any more about your OE-that-works-on-7? And is it 7-32 or 7-64? [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Beatrix Potter was a bunny boiler. - Patricia Routledge, on "Today" 2016-1-26 |
Wont save passwords
HB wrote:
I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. |
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On 9/3/2018 02:06, HB wrote:
I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Not responding to your problem: I always type my passwords from my brain. Maybe you have too many websites. :) -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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On 10/3/2018 01:07, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. Just google "outlook express windows 7"! :) https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=outlook+express+windows+7 -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
Wont save passwords
On 9/3/2018 10:26, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Can you tell us any more about your OE-that-works-on-7? And is it 7-32 or 7-64? One simple method is to use a VM to run your license copy of WinXP. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不*錢! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 不求神! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
Wont save passwords
In message , Mr. Man-wai
Chang writes: On 10/3/2018 01:07, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. Just google "outlook express windows 7"! :) https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=outlook+express+windows+7 Before telling people to Google, please do it yourself, and actually follow the links. Of the first ten hits, that search yields one or two that point to runasxp's product, about seven that point to the "OE Classic" product, and two or three that just tell us OE doesn't work under 7 (which we know). The poster to whom I was responding - and which Mr. P. is writing about too - wrote as if he had an original version of OE (not a substitute, replacement, or whatever), that had worked under 7 (no mention of VM [virtual Machine] running XP, either), for some time (and was continuing to, for that matter, just had started to prompt for password frequently). Our interest is in where/when he got it, or, if it's just the original (msimn.exe?) copied from XP or earlier, whether there's something odd about his W7 (such as maybe being 32 bit, or a pre-release candidate, or something). But I fear the original poster is probably no longer reading this thread )-:. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Bother,"saidPoohwhenhisspacebarrefusedtowork. |
Wont save passwords
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 10/3/2018 01:07, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. Just google "outlook express windows 7"! :) https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=outlook+express+windows+7 Been there. But thanks anyway. |
Wont save passwords
"VanguardLH" wrote in message ... HB wrote: "VanguardLH" wrote in message ... HB wrote: I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Passwords are saved in an encrypted registry entry. If corrupted, the result is not entering the correct login credentials at the server so Outlook Express prompts for a new password. However, entering and remembering the new login credentials won't repair the corrupted registry entry. https://www.google.com/search?q=outl...ber%20password found: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...utlook-express Use method 3. 1. To create a new profile/identity I have to get new email accounts at Gmail or somewhere. It wont let me use the account names I already have. So that wont work. It doesn't explain how to use the old account's names and passwords with a new profile in OE, even AFTER I deleted one account to see if that would work. It didn't. Also, the info on the Tabs in EO are not the same as in the article. There is no "Info", then "account settings" under the File tab in OE. 2. As for the Key. I found it OK in the registry, but even following the simple directions, I get a "Unable to save permissions. Access is denied." I saw only 1 subkey key there though I have 4 accounts on this PC. So that will not work either. Moot since access is denied. The other info there was not for OE. The "save password" is grayed out. I have the same OE software on 4 different computers and this is the only one that is grayed out and will not save them. Googling brings up a lot of info that often doesn't work. That's why I ask on the NGs, hoping to find someone with first hand knowledge who tried something that worked for them. How can everything be removed from OE so I can install a fresh uncorrupt copy? Have any idea? That is short of doing a System Recovery. Outlook Express profiles have nothing to do with separate e-mail accounts. You can have many OE profiles and each could point to the same e-mail servers doing the same logins. You have to define what e-mail account to use within a profile. It can be the same or different e-mail account than specified in another profile. I couldn't believe what happened this morning. As mentioned I deleted one of the email accounts because I wanted to use the same name profile. I didn't know there was a way to direct a new one to an existing account since I saw no way to do that. I had no idea how to switch back when it asked me if I wanted to switch. When I opened OE not only was the deleted account THERE, but the passwords were as well. All mail downloaded without asking for the passwords for each one. I did nothing to make this happen. WTF? I've been online since 1995 and something like this never happened before. Not unless a program was uninstalled and reinstalled. Besides, method 3 is about deleting the registry entry that recorded the encrypted login credentials, not about creating new OE profiles. The MS article mentions having to change permissions on the registry key. You must be logged in under an admin-level account to use the registry and change permissions on the registry keys. As mention, I did that but I got an "Unable to save permissions. Access is denied." So apparently somthing happened to make it work again, no credit to myself. |
Wont save passwords
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , HB writes: I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Sorry, can't help with your problem, but the above interests me: I have a friend who is fond of OE, but is under the impression (as was I) that it won't work under 7. (There is that "OE Classic", of which the free version is rather limited and people here thought the paid version was flawed too, but I get the impression you aren't talking about that anyway.) One of the reasons my friend is staying on XP (though not the only one). Can you tell us any more about your OE-that-works-on-7? And is it 7-32 or 7-64? It's 7-64. It works on W-10 also. I have the free copy that a website was giving away a few years ago. Now he charges for it. I have had no problems with the free version. The url is https://runasxp.com/ [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Beatrix Potter was a bunny boiler. - Patricia Routledge, on "Today" 2016-1-26 |
Wont save passwords
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message ... HB wrote: I have a copy of Outlook Express for several years now that worked on W-7. Then,suddenly, it would not save my passwords. It's a real PIA to have to add them every day when I check my email. Also, I uninstalled OE and thought that would remove the problem but files stay hidden somwhere because when I reinstalled OE, all the info was still there including deleted old email. And of course the same old problem of not saving passwords. Anyone know how I can completely remove it from my W-7 Home desktop so I can reinstall it fresh? Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. It was free at one time. Now I think it's donationware. Go he https://runasxp.com/ |
Wont save passwords
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Mr. Man-wai Chang writes: On 10/3/2018 01:07, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote: Don't know, sorry. But I would be very interested where you got a copy of OE that works on Windows 7. Just google "outlook express windows 7"! :) https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=outlook+express+windows+7 Before telling people to Google, please do it yourself, and actually follow the links. Of the first ten hits, that search yields one or two that point to runasxp's product, about seven that point to the "OE Classic" product, and two or three that just tell us OE doesn't work under 7 (which we know). The poster to whom I was responding - and which Mr. P. is writing about too - wrote as if he had an original version of OE (not a substitute, replacement, or whatever), that had worked under 7 (no mention of VM [virtual Machine] running XP, either), for some time (and was continuing to, for that matter, just had started to prompt for password frequently). Our interest is in where/when he got it, or, if it's just the original (msimn.exe?) copied from XP or earlier, whether there's something odd about his W7 (such as maybe being 32 bit, or a pre-release candidate, or something). Wasn't the original somehow connected to IE? There was no way as I underatand it, that it could be moved to another computer. But I fear the original poster is probably no longer reading this thread )-:. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Bother,"saidPoohwhenhisspacebarrefusedtowork. |
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