[Spambayes] RE: Please help run an Outlook plugin test

[Coe, Bob]

I should have specified that I'm referring to XP Professional. I don't know whether the test would make sense using the Home Edition.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coe, Bob 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:03 AM
> To: spambayes at Python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Please help run an Outlook plugin test
> 
> 
> I would greatly appreciate it if one or more readers of this 
> list would test the following proposition for me:
> 
> Start with a Windows XP SP1 computer without the Outlook 
> plugin installed. (Uninstall it if necessary.)
> In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager,
> set "SafeDllSearchMode"=dword:00000000
> Install version 0.81 of the Outlook plugin, using the 
> self-extracting load module as distributed.
> Reboot and start up Outlook. It should crash immediately.
> Uninstall the plugin.
> In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager,
> set "SafeDllSearchMode"=dword:00000001
> Install the plugin as before.
> Reboot and start up Outlook. It should run correctly.
> 
> I don't know that the proposition is true, but a test I ran 
> last night suggests that it may be. I've been trying to track 
> down a persistent problem with the plugin ever since I 
> converted two of my computers to XP last month. The above 
> approach was suggested by someone whose Windows credentials 
> are unusually good, so I'm hopeful that I may be onto something.
> 
> Bob
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