Darkman [Gothic San Diego] wrote:

I have read thru all these posts here regarding password retension in
outlook 2003, recreated a profile, done the registry fix by adding
permissions to the Protected Storage System Provider
reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290684/en-us

However there was no:
The user subkey folder resembles the following example:
S-1-5-21-124525095-708259637-1543119021-16701

it was empty except for the (default) entry, no user identity, and I
don't knwo how to create one.

If you have a functioning Windows system, this simply cannot be true for
every SID on your system. There will be at least one SID that will not be
empty.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]