Office & productivity software: Password Protect Microsoft Outlook 2003
Password Protect Microsoft Outlook 2003
by dsmoothest - 10/2/06 11:15 PMI currently have Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003 and I wanted to password protect it so I went to the help menu and the response was this, "Currently there is no way to password protect Outlook on startup or to lock Outlook if you need to quickly walk away from your computer other than by using your Microsoft Windows® logon password or by using third-party software written specifically to password protect Outlook. This is terrible! I wonder why that is? Anyway, does anyone know of free or inexpensive and good 3rd party software to password protect my Outlook? My Outlook is password protected at my job and I’m guessing that’s because it’s networked and on a server?... Oh well. Thanks Much!
Windows XP?
by R. Proffitt
- 10/3/06 6:17 AM
In reply to: Password Protect Microsoft Outlook 2003 by dsmoothest
It's already a feature of the operating system (OS.) To duplicate what the OS already offers is why you probably don't find this feature.
For example, XP has files and ownership settings in the file properties. We have passwords on the logins so the password is already given for our session.
Hope this explains this well enough.
Bob
Now I get It
by dsmoothest - 10/3/06 2:35 PM In reply to: Windows XP? by R. Proffitt
I understand now. Thanks. It's just that as a novice, I'm so used to being at work and loging into the server first and then having to log into Outlook seperately are the daily norm. Plus, it just seems simpler for me because when I used the Palm software for so long, it was always password protected. At times, I wouldn't mind people using my login as long as they didn't open up my calendar, contacts etc. Even here at the job, people ask to get on the web quickly but I don't have to stand behind them to make sure they don't open my Outlook because it's password protected.
Outlook password
by MSfan7 - 7/9/09 8:26 AM In reply to: Windows XP? by R. Proffitt
I disagree with all the replies thus far. There are many apps that have security in addition to the Windows login security.
Outlook doesn't have security simply because MS failed to provide that option.
They tend to give you what they want, not what you need. And when you complain, they go too far in the other direction (ie Vista).
Opps, gotta go! There are unused icons on my desktop--I better fix that.
MS failed to....
by R. Proffitt - 7/9/09 8:33 AM
In reply to: Outlook password by MSfan7
MSFT has as a company moved to "single sign on" for the security model. If you signed on, then you are you.
Why would I be asked again to say get to my Outlook emails?
Bob
Windows XP ...
by Kees Bakker - 10/3/06 12:05 PM
In reply to: Password Protect Microsoft Outlook 2003 by dsmoothest
also has the 'lock PC' feature (Win-key + L) which password-protects everything, not just your Outlook contents, if you walk away. What more to wish?
Kees
I didn't know that
by dsmoothest - 10/3/06 2:47 PM In reply to: Windows XP ... by Kees Bakker
Thanks for that. I didn't realize I could do that. Like I just wrote to Proffitt, though, I usually don't mind when people use my login for a quick net search or a fast letter in Word. But Outlook can have some confidential information and I guess I'm just accustomed to being at work and even if my desktop is wide open, people cannot simply sit down and open up my Outlook without my permission. I don't mind them using other apps. Now that I'm thinking about it, my Microsoft Money used to also be password protected but now that I switched to Quicken, it does not have that same feature. I guess I'd feel better knowing that I can leave friends and family at my login wihtout being concerned about them opening up applications they have no business opening. Thanks Again!
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