Office 2007 login prompts stop Outlook cold until clicked.

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MNSwiftOne

How do I stop Outlook 2007 from repeatedly prompting with login prompts?
Password is save - even shown in login dialogs. I upgraded from 2003 to 2007
Professional hoping they had fixed this... nope. I paid big $$$ for this
program and it is worthless unless I sit in front of the computer to click an
un-needed login prompt.

I leave my home system running 24/day - check mail in the morning, leave.
Quite often I will return home and a Login for one of the Hotmail/Live
accounts entered will be waiting to be clicked. Clicking it - sometimes
fails, sometimes finishes - but Every time, doing a Send/Receive afterwards
will result in tons of mail waiting to be retrieved.
I have 3 hotmail accounts (All grandfathered original pre 2000 Outlook
ready), one for myself, one for my wife and one for my mother.
I also have a home business with 5 POP3 accounts and a gmail account. All
wait till the prompt is closed...
When a password is assigned to an account - the login prompt should NEVER be
shown - if an account cannot be logged into immediately - Outlook should
retry a few times and timeout. I would have it try 5 more times, 5 minutes
apart and then take the account offline...

Any ideas? Any registry setting I can modify/add? I am a Software
Developer/Engineer IV... I do not understand why such a flaw exists in a
'Professional' product.
Thanks,
Todd
 
T

Todd

(I'm MNSwiftOne - logging in from work...)
Yes - I first imported everything from Outlook 2003 so I retained all my
folders, then deleted and reacreated all hotmail based profiles... I also
tried the Hotmail Plug-in that MS offers on their site - actually made it
worse in that much more intervention and annoying stuff and still same login
prompts so I uninstalled that.
My system is Vista Ultimate with 100% all available updates OS and Office.
Also VS 2008, 2005, SQL Server 2005 (Standard edition), IE7, Mozilla, and a
few more programs...
This has been occuring since Office XP (2002) - and exists in ALL Versions
of Office.
Office 2007 has some really bad problems - it does not run in threads very
well - i.e. If it is in the middle of trying to login to a HTML email, maybe
trying to download from a hotmail server - sometimes it will literally HANG.
I believe their servers sometimes go down and Outlook 2007 cannot recover.
This has happened multiple times and I reported it...
My only concern is the annoying Logins that lock up Outlook until I get home
- sometimes resulting in Hotmail accounts being switched ofline and having to
shut down and restart Outlook.

Hope someone has an idea...
Thanks, Todd
 

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