.. . .winston wrote:

Jason wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:27:00 -0500 "Paul" wrote in
article

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This article is old, but suggests there may be a setting in Outlook
to make it prompt you.

http://www.petri.com/configure_outlo...pas sword.htm

Paul

Thanks, Paul. Outlook is set up to prompt for a password, and it does so
*except* the first time I run Outlook after starting Windows. Every other
time 'til shutdown, it asks...


Sounds like a credential override on first use with the stored password
tied to and retained for the user logon authentication. A subsequent
Outlook closure/open thus not loading the previously used
credential...which if that makes sense would seem that if the Windows
profile is logged off without restarting (or shutdown/restart) Windows
then the same would occur - no password prompt on first OL use but
thereafter until user logoff or shutdown.

Hmm, maybe he's "shutting down" by using hibernate mode. That means the
first use of Outlook is not the first use but the next use. The prior
load of the password protected .pst file was already validated and
cached, he hibernates, and the reload of the memory image means the .pst
file is still cached so no password is needed. Then he actually unloads
Outlook and later upon loading Outlook again gets the password request.

However he is shutting down and then later starting Windows, the OP
should look in Task Manager's processes tab to see of outlook.exe is
already running. If it wasn't loaded as a startup item (e.g., a
shortcut to outlook.exe in his Startup folder) then next would be to
determine why outlook.exe is already running when he "first" starts
Windows.