 | By Mark Joseph Edwards There’s always room for improvement in today’s browsers and e-mail clients, particularly when an improvement eliminates your frustration! This week, I present advice on how to get rid of annoying Outlook prompts, how to gain better control over your browser, how to manage your desktop boot sequence, and much more. |
Tame those annoying Outlook prompts
Sometimes Microsoft’s security enhancements also enhance people’s level of frustration. Such is the case with Outlook and its warning dialogs. Muriel Fox writes:
- “I’m contacting you as a last resort. I’ve been told by my broadband company, by my (Dell) computer company, and by my paid Palm tech support that the problem cannot be solved. But I hope you’ll figure something out.
“Ever since I switched to Microsoft Office XP, I’ve been getting the following message in Microsoft Outlook when I try to send an e-mail [by clicking] ‘New’ or ‘Reply’ or ‘Forward’:
A program is trying to access email addresses you have stored in Outlook. Do you want to allow this? If this is unexpected it may be a virus and you should choose No.
“I need to click Yes in order to proceed. I’ve been told that this prompt is caused because I use my Palm organizer through Microsoft Outlook (in addition to my desktop), and Palm is not compatible with Microsoft Office XP, although it was compatible with my previous Microsoft Office 2005. They say there’s no way to eliminate the prompts. I installed the Service Pack for Office XP, but that didn’t help.
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