A lot of times I need to be able to look at .reg, .vbs, .vb, etc - attachments that people send me via email. I don't go haphazardly running them, but I need to at least be able to save them to disk and drag them into my text editor. Here's how to make the changes in Vista to prevent Outlook 2007 from blocking these files. Note that with these changes, you still won't be able to just double-click on the attachment and run it (this is good), you'll have to save it to disk first.
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Make sure you really want to do this, it could be dangerous. :)
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Pick up the Office 2007 Administrative Templates.
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From MMC, add the Local Computer Policy snap-in, and go to User Configuration->Administrative Templates. Right click and add the new Office 2007 administrative templates that you downloaded.
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From there, go to Classic Administrative Templates (ADM)->Microsoft Office Outlook 2007->Security->Security Form Settings. Edit the properties of Outlook Security Mode to enable and choose which type you want. In my example I am using Group Policy settings.
- Go to Security Form Settings->Attachment Security, there you can enable display of level 1 attachments.