Revert “Always Ask Before Opening This Type of File” Option in Microsoft Outlook
In Microsoft Outlook 2003, XP (2002), 2000 and Outlook from the latest Office 2007, when attempting to open an attachment that came with an email, a dialog box will prompt for options that ask whether you like to open the file or save it to computer. Other than allowing users to choose which action user want to Outlook to perform, the dialog also has a check box of “Always ask before opening this type of file” setting, which if untick or clear, will make the choice permanent and Outlook always does the selected action by default for the type and extension of attachment file in the future without prompting again.
If you have accidentally unchecked the check box, or for whatever reason want to reset or revert the “Always ask before opening this type of file” setting so that Office Outlook will return change back to the default behavior with prompt to save or open functionality, we can use the same trick as reset the always ask setting in IE. The same trick will work because the “Always Ask Before Opening This Type of File” setting is actually an operating system variable, and both IE and Outlook use it to determine the action needed to perform.
To recap, follow this steps to reset the behavior so that Outlook will prompt you to open or save the file type:
- Open the Control Panel Folder Options applet or open it from Tools -> Folder Options in any Explorer window.
- Select the File Types tab.
- Scroll down to the extension type that you want to reset.
- Select the extension type, then click Advanced.
- Check the “Confirm open after download” check box, then click OK.
- Click Close to the Folder Options dialog box.
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March 20th, 2009 23:36
Thanks for the info!
February 3rd, 2009 01:07
Thank you. Outlook help did not help resolve this. I could not figure it out at all.
November 21st, 2008 19:50
¡¡¡Muchas gracias por la ayuda!!!
La verdad que nunca lo hibiese buscado por ahí.
November 17th, 2008 23:44
Thanks!! Not the most obvious place to make that change, but your advice worked perfectly!
October 23rd, 2008 04:20
Good listing..micrsoft help was not good.
July 9th, 2008 04:12
Perfect! I had the same dismal results with the Outlook HELP file that April had on the Microsoft web site. This article was the first result on Google search and had the problem resolved for me in under a minute.
June 29th, 2008 01:58
Does not work on Vista.
March 27th, 2008 04:40
Thanks. Very helpful
February 27th, 2008 05:35
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I couldn’t find *anything* on Microsoft’s site and here I found the solution immediately.
November 15th, 2007 23:52
thank you!!! i never would have thought of that.