Opening mail attachment warning outlook 2007 windows 7

The Problem Microsoft has understandably made security a cornerstone of its recent software releases. The Solution in Windows 7 Warning: You should only do this if you have anti-virus software installed on your computer that checks for, and quarantines, all emails that contain attachments with malicious code. Comments comments. Last reviewed on September 27, Comments. We're hearing from many users: Outlook always prompts for permission to open attachments and the checkbox for "Always ask before opening this type of file" is grayed out.

After you set the desired file types to open without asking, you can run Outlook normally. After locating the key, create or change the EditFlags Binary value to 00 00 01 When you no longer need administrator permissions you should repeat the steps to disable Run as Administrator. Outlook is less secure when you use run as administrator and it should not be used permanently. This is the path for bit Windows and bit Office:. Outlook bit on Windows 10 bit:.

To always ask before opening, either delete the EditFlags value or change the value to 00 00 00 To identify other file types, look at the extension's key in the registry - most if not all will include a more descriptive name. For example, this is the key for the. If you don't want to edit the registry, you can use this Registry file. Edit Flags registry keys bit Outlook on bit Windows.

Download the file and double click to add the keys to the registry. Note that some browsers will save it with the. You'll need to change the extension to. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. I've tried a search with F3.

Hi Diane. Any more thoughts on why this problem keeps recurring? MP4 attachments have reverted to Outlook not giving me the option to open them with a straight double-click, but rather throws at me that stupid, greyed out 'Always ask before opening I had already 'fixed' this a few times in the past, by editing the Registry as recommended. The problem is back. I have by now done the most thorough search of the Registry for any mp4, or. The only thing that has knowingly changed in my computer Windows 10 setup is that, a few days ago, I installed another video viewing software called HPC-MC x64 which 'took possession' by itself as the default for opening video files.

I don't want this. However, it does not open with a double-click. Can you suggest anything? This is driving me mad! However, I would like to publish this setting to all of our internal clients. In Microsoft Office Outlook , you can specify that attachments to Outlook items are restricted based on the file type of the attachment.

A file type can have either a Level 1 or Level 2 restriction. You can also configure what users can do with attachment restrictions. For example, you might allow users to change the restrictions for a group of attachment file types from Level 1 user cannot view the file to Level 2 user can open the file after saving it to disk. You can configure attachment settings by using Group Policy. In Group Policy, load the Outlook template Outlk Since that option is a system wide change and not limited to the logged on user, you must perform this action with Administrator rights.

As Outlook runs with user-level permissions by default, even when logged on as an administrator, you must explicitly run Outlook as an administrator to change the option. However, depending on the file extension, this convenient trick may still not work. This option cannot be disabled with standard user privileges.