Since the important parts of this thread aren't displayed here in vista.mail,
please follow the link to see what the problem is all about.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...6-50dbf7ade583

"Eric" wrote:

> > BTW what would be the significance of the 8.3 path name?
> > Surely OUTLOOK.EXE is not a 16-bit program? <eg>
>
> Probably just something stupid with Vista.
>
> > >> What happens if you replace your (assumed) association
> > >> with Outlook for the default association with Windows Mail?
> > >> Perhaps your Outlook(?) association is the cause of your symptom?
> > >
>
> I switched the association to Windows Mail and experienced the same problem.
>
> It's gotta be a bug in the Protected Mode feature.