Outlook, Please STOP Asking Me ‘Do you want to save changes?’

A couple months back Outlook 2007 started asking if I wanted to save changes when I would close out of the program.  I could not put my finger on the change(s) that were made to my system to prompt the start of such behavior.  Finally after a couple months of putting up with it I did some googling and while I did not find a direct (acceptable) answer to my problem I did find a user that had a similar problem where an add-in was to blame.  They suggested that it was Adobe.  Given that I do not need the add-in integration in Outlook, I disabled that along with a bunch of others.  That seemed to do the trick.

To disable add-ins open Outlook 2007 as an administrator and then go to Tools>Trust Center>Add-ins.  Down at the bottom, you will see a drop down that is titled ‘Manage’.  Choose COM Add-ins and select Go.  From there you can uncheck the items you want to disable.  Some add-ins require admin privileges to disable but it will let you know if you forgot step 1 (run as admin).

Hope this helps someone else.

UPDATE:  DAMN YOU OUTLOOK!!! STOP ASKING ME!!!!

Published Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:16 PM by dotnetgeek
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