Network permissions to change Outlook file attachment dialog box annoyance

Factual Questions
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Today at work we switched E-mail servers, and also switched from Outlook Express to Outlook.

I am assigned documents to work on by E-mail, with links in the mail which I click to open the documents on the network. Today, after switching to Outlook, there began a persistent annoyance. That dialogue box asking: “Do you want to open this file or save it to disk?” Open it is all I ever do. I do not need to bother with this dialogue box. It defaults to “save,” so I have to click two extra clicks just to get this useless box out of the way.

Here’s the really annoying part: The check-box that says “Always ask when opening this kind of file” is GRAYED OUT. That means we CANNOT UNCHECK IT. :mad: We don’t have the system permissions that allow us to banish this demon from tormenting us. What kind of sadistic idiocy is Microsoft perpetrating on us?

I asked the workplace techie guy, with his sys admin login, to stop the demon from happening. He couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it. He asked the other techie guy, who didn’t know either. Microsoft network geniuses, please help!

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To clarify a couple of points about the OP:

Our network runs on Windows 2000.

The dialogue box that I don’t want to see is supposed to be about opening attachments. It’s supposed to make you take caution before opening an attachment which may hold a virus. Even though, in fact, I am not opening attachments, and we are on a secure network with no external connections, therefore no virus danger. I’m just clicking hyperlinks that point to documents on our LAN. So the box is useless, annoying, and for that matter inappropriate.