• Outlook 2019 – recent update makes it impossible for an admin to uncheck “Always ask before opening this type of file”

    Posted on August 26, 2020 at 11:46 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    This in from BW:

    Until the June Outlook 2019 updates, I’ve always been able to uncheck “Always ask before opening this type of file” for various extensions by starting Outlook as administrator. It’s always been necessary after MS Office updates but at least it worked. Now it doesn’t. Remains greyed out even when running as admin. Really annoying since I know what I’m doing and don’t need the extra warning. Plus I open attachments all the time. It’s especially annoying when it’s an attachment in an email that I’ve saved and need to go back to often. Note that it also doesn’t work if you’ve, say, saved an Excel spreadsheet or Word document directly in an outlook folder, not as an attachment.

    I know there used to be registry settings for this. I no longer have those and could look them up online but given this latest change not sure even that would work.

    Anybody out there seeing the same problem? Got a solution?

    Office, Office Patches/Security
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