Comments on: Fix For Outlook 2007 Constantly Asking for Password on Vista

By: Pratap

Pratap — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:50:18 +0000

Alex and Ramy thank you so very much. Renaming didn’t work, but deleting the Protect folder did work. Thanks a lot.

By: Stan

Stan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:54:45 +0000

Your solution worked like a charm. I’m using Windows 7 and Outlook 2007. Previously, I tried removing the Protected Storage System Provider subkeys per Microsoft Support’s article 290684, but that didn’t work. Thank you again very much for this solution!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:38:55 +0000

This sounded like it was going to work, but, alas, it didn’t.
It did recreate the folder, but I’m still getting prompted.
I’ve read everything on the MS website that I can.
I’m so exasperated at this annoyance now, I’m almost ready to shell out the $$ to call MS Tech support.

By: Marge

Marge — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:03:04 +0000

I just upgraded to Windows 7 and am now having this problem. I didn’t have the problem with Vista. When I searched for %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect, it doesn’t find it. Has anyone found a solution for this problem with Windows 7?

By: Seth

Seth — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:55:04 +0000

I don’t believe this will work if you use Outlook Anywhere a.k.a. RPC over HTTP.

By: Derek Stocker

Derek Stocker — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:33:20 +0000

Thank you so much for the fix for office 2007 and the dreaded password request, all running well now.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:01:52 +0000

This, nor any M$ article worked for me.. even tried this one repeatedly:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=290684

We have XP machine running 2007 after upgrading from 2003.

Tried: Edited registry (protected storage keys), new profiles, the works.

What fixed it finally was ditching the old XP user account, creating a new one and setting everything back up from scratch.

From: http://www.graphinex.com computer geeks

By: srt

srt — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:59:05 +0000

i got the same problem, with shared-maps on my network, maybe you got a solution to that problem also? (wishful thinking)

By: srt

srt — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:56:07 +0000

holy cow, it worked. thnx bro XD

By: kmv

kmv — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:31 +0000

Worked like a Charm! Thanks