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

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

By: Gilad

Gilad — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:34:11 +0000

Here’s a solution that worked for me:

I’ve been struggling with this problem (not being able to download mail to Outlook via POP) for quite some time
now with my Gmail accounts, and have tried all the proposed solutions out there (registry changes, mail profiles etc.),
but to no avail.

Then I noticed something interesting – when I tried accessing these accounts via Webmail, GMail wouldn’t let
me log in without entering the security picture characters. This made me realize that my POP could not access
the account because it is locked (I have no idea why, but it was). Once I unlocked the account, Outlook could access
the mail again via POP.

I ran a search for “gmail account unlock”, and found the following URL for unlocking Gmail accounts:
https://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

If you are experiencing the annoying “Enter Network Password” prompt, all you need to do is to follow the above
link, enter your Gmail login details (and the security characters), after which your account will become unlocked
and Outlook will be able to access it again.

Hope this helps.

Gilad

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:19:46 +0000

Thanks Alex, The idea about deleting the protect folder was what it took for mine to be fixed… hopefully that wont create a problem down the road.