{"id":96,"date":"2006-04-03T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-22T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T00:45:54","slug":"how-to-allow-specific-attachments-in-outlook-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/how-to-allow-specific-attachments-in-outlook-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Allow Specific Attachments in Outlook 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

By default Outlook blocks several types of attachments for security reasons. There are two levels of attachment security in Microsoft Outlook 2003. Access to Level 1 files is blocked and you can’t changed that. When you receive an attachment with a Level 2 file type, you will be prompted to save the file to your hard disk. There are no Level 2 files by default but you can add or remove Level 2 type files if you are an administrator. There are dozens of Level 1 type files. For a list of Level 1 file types that are blocked by Outlook, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you wish to allow certain types of attachments in Outlook 2003, e.g. URLs, you can modify the registry as described below.<\/p>\n

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1. Clik, Start, Run, and type regedit.exe to start the registry editor.
\n2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Office\\Your Version Number\\Outlook\\Security. The version number will be something like 10.0 or 11.0, depending on your version.
\n3. Click Edit, New, String Value.
\n4. For Value name type Level1Remove<\/b> and press Enter.
\n5. Double-click the new entry and set the Value data to a list of extensions seperated by semicolon that you want to allow. For example, if you want to allow URLs, EXE and VBS files, enter url;exe;vbs<\/b> in lowercase. Do not enter a period before file types.
\n5. Restart Outlook for the changes to take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By default Outlook blocks several types of attachments for security reasons. There are two levels of attachment security in Microsoft Outlook 2003. Access to Level 1 files is blocked and you can’t changed that. When you receive an attachment with a Level 2 file type, you will be prompted to save the file to your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34,24,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange-outlook","category-registry","category-security","category-tips-tricks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t