Trick of the Week 3 - Permiting Blocked Outlook Attachments

Certain file types are blocked in Outlook. I have experience with *.mdb and *.tmp files. By default, emails that contains that kind of files are blocked. That means, that you can't open these attachments. Outlook says that this file types might "harm" your system. But here is a trick, registry tweak, that will help you.

You can accomplish that with Registry Tweaker.

1. Run Registry Tweaker (1.8.5.153) and go to Windows XP database. Select Microsoft Office category and then select Outlook 2000/XP/2003 allowed attachments tweak from the list. Tick the box with appropriate Office version. Registry Tweaker supports Office 2000, XP and 2003. Maybe even Office 2007, but I haven't test this one.
2. After ticking the box, click Apply button.
3. You are prompted with an input window. If you want to unblock MDB and TMP files then write the value in this format: *.mdb;*.tmp. If you need more file types, add them and separate them with ;.
4. Click OK, and that's it. You need to restart Outlook for this to work.

More Information about the tweak:
For Office 2003 registry info look like this:
Path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security\
Value name: Level1Remove
Value: *.mdb;*.tmp

Tool: not available yet.
You need Microsoft Framework 2.0 to run this tool. Get it here.