Archive for the ‘outlook’ Category

Schedule Outlook appointment in X number of days

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

In Outlook it is easy to find out what is X number of days away.

Open Outlook and flip to the calendar page. Click the New Appointment button. In the date field, type 60d (replace the 60 with the number of days in advance).

Unblock “unsafe” attachments in Outlook

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

So I went to open the .exe file that I sent myself yesterday and I found out that Outlook 2007 will not let you download “unsafe” attachments (unsafe meaning “Any file with an executable extension”). This bothered me, so I googled how to disable the feature.

Sadly you cannot completely disable it, you can only add file types that you want to download anyway.

Open the registry editor (Click Start->Run and type regedit)

• Browse to:

Outlook 2007

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Security

Outlook 2003

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security

Outlook 2002

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security

Outlook 2000

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Outlook\Security


• Add a new String value named: Level1Remove

• Edit the value and add the extension(s) that you would like to allow (use a ‘;’ as a delimeter)

Ex: .exe or .bat;.exe;.mst


• Restart Outlook (You don’t need to restart the computer)