24th January 2001
Coming from the "Fixing The Fix" Department, Lockergnomie Edward Kreis may have discovered a workaround for the Outlook 2000 SP2 attachment security update. "I remember you where disappointed to discover that the latest Outlook 2000 patches disabled the ability to directly open 'EXE' attachments (as well as others). To enable such functionality again, you may try the following hack." In the Registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Policies \ Microsoft \ Security. If this subkey is not present, then you may not be affected. Assuming it is there, create a new DWORD Value and name it: "CheckAdminSettings" (sans quotes). Double-left-click on the newly-created option and enter the number one (1). Now, I cannot verify that this setting will change anything -- only because I did not install any one of Microsoft's Office 2000 service packs. Edward claims that it will return attachment functionality. As always, I recommend that you perform a full backup of all your vital system data before doing any serious system tweaking.