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by matt5968

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I received a EMAIL from family member in Italy. A file was attached to it but outlook gave me a message that it had blocked a potentially unsafe attachment. It s proberly a picture but dont know what format its in. I tried looking around in the email options stettings but could not find anything that helped. How can I recover the attachment .. Thanks all. Merry Christmas!

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by wim

Opening ALL Attachments with the Outlook E-mail Security Update and Outlook 2002:
Outlook 2002 allows the user to use a registry key to open up access to blocked attachments.
To use this key:
Run Regedit, and go to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security
Under that key, add a new string value named Level1Remove.
For the value for Level1Remove, enter a semicolon-delimited list of file extensions.
For example, entering this:

mdb;url

would unblock Microsoft Access files and Internet shortcuts.
Here is a list of most of the extensions that are blocked. You can copy and paste this list into the registry key.
ade; adp; asx; bas; bat; chm; cmd; com; cpl; crt; exe; hlp; hta; inf; ins; isp; js; jse; lnk; mda; mdb; mde; mdz; msc; msi; msp; mst; pcd; pif; prf; reg; scf; scr; sct; shb; shs; url; vb; vbe; vbs; wsc; wsf; wsh
If you are using this registry entry, a glance at Help / About Microsoft Outlook will show Security Mode: User Controlled above the license information.

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