As you are aware, I tend to use older programs longer than most to save me a
whole lot of setting up and trying to find blind accessible ways to use the
new stuff.
So it is that I have here a Windows 7 machine with the ribbon remover for
explorer, and a modified version of Outlook Express for Email. This has
worked perfectly for me for many years, but over the weekend while doing a
windows back up to a portable drive there must have been so glitch which did
something. We have two problems. My most pressing at the moment is that
although my hacking tool can still see all the passwords, Outlook Express
has lost them all, or rather has no permission to access them or some other
reason has caused the problem so that every server now prompts for a
password. This gets very tiresome as you can imagine. So I'm sure in the dim
and mystic past this was a problem that Outlook express occasionally had,
but I can find now nothing about it on the web. I'm sure its a registry
glitch.
Likewise the second problem is that now I cannot restore to a point or
restore from the back up which quits at about 97 percent with a cryptic
error which seems to be that its moaning that when reading from the source
disc an index is pointing to a different drive for the file.
What did I try? Well I thought if its the basic bits of the registry, then
simply making a copy from a few days ago, the current one and restarting
should fix it I have a program that backs up the registry files every day
and keeps them fo a few months. Needless to say doing this makes no
difference to either email or back ups. I suspect these are not in a part of
the registry which is backud up. So has anyone got any ideas?Incidentally
the browsers like Firefox and edge have both retained their passwords, so
I'm suspecting something to do with the old protected passwords permissions
although they look sensible, they of course could be lying to me.
Brian

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