Outlook 2002 Question re "a program trying to access e-mail"

[Chakra]

I know, I know - twilight zone for support, but ....

I use Office XP 2002/Outlook for contractor address on my desktop running
Win2K, just fine ... it does all I require and see no reason whatsoever to
upgrade for functionality reasons.

However, with Vista Business on my laptop, Outlook 2002 is totally unusable
due to _multiple_ (read hundreds) pop up windows of "a program is trying to
access e-mail ..." (appears to be one screen for every e-mail address in the
database!?).

I've tried a security add-on (MapiLab) to no avail.

There are no viruses, Trojans, etc., and Vista says the way to solve the
problem is to upgrade to Outlook 2003.

Is there another solution or, if not, just how does one go about upgrading
just Outlook?

TIA ...

 

[Roady [MVP]]

The pop-ups are caused by some add-in you have installed. It depends a bit
on when it is being displayed to help guessing which application is causing
it. If you have Adobe Acrobat (full, not Reader) installed it could be
caused by their Office Toolbar.

You can upgrade just Outlook by buying just Outlook and not an Office Suite
with Outlook. Outlook is available as a separate product. I would upgrade to
Outlook 2007 then though ;-)

 

[Chakra]

The pop-ups are caused by some add-in you have installed. It depends a bit
on when it is being displayed to help guessing which application is causing
it. If you have Adobe Acrobat (full, not Reader) installed it could be
caused by their Office Toolbar.

You can upgrade just Outlook by buying just Outlook and not an Office Suite
with Outlook. Outlook is available as a separate product. I would upgrade to
Outlook 2007 then though ;-)

Thank you very much for the info. MapiLib will give you a list of the
possible programs, but none are listed that would appear to be the
offenders.

I did look on MSFT's site, but things have changed so much since I've been
there that I get lost in the forest of options. I'll take a closer look.

Once again, your help was much appreciated. Good to see you guys are still
around and dedicated to helping out.

<an old time ex-MVP from many, many years ago ... during the Win 95 era>

KarlC