HELP! ASP.Net has taken over!

[iamc3k]

Folks, thanks for any help. Here's the situation: I just woke my computer from sleep (Vista64 Ultimate). I did some web browsing which went fine. Then I opened my email, Outlook Express. That's when I ran into a problem. My attempt to "Send and Receive" caused a window to open. It says "Windows Security" and prompts me by username to logon to my email provider.

The image associated with this new logon prompt is the same as the image on one of my three accounts: the ASP.net account. My other two accounts are "Ken" (administrator) and "Guest" (Guest account is off). "ASP.Net Machine Account" (Standard User, Password Protected) is something I never created. I have searched and found out why it got created. Fine....

How do I shut off the password protection for my ASP.Net account? I understand it autogenerates passwords. If it does that, how am I supposed to figure out the password? I want to either make that account dormant, delete it, or just remove the password protection. Can any of that be done?

Thanks!
Ken

 

[Tarka Dal]

Refer to:~ Windows XP Common Issues > What is the ASP.NET Machine Account?

 

[iamc3k]

Trax1963; thanks, but that doesn't help. I've read up on ASP.Net, not that I understand it, or need to.

The issue is ONLY for Sending/Receiving email. I'm not sure it's the ASP.Net account causing problems. The reason I initially suspected it is twofold: it is the ONLY account on my computer needing passwords; the icon for ASP.Net account matches the icon on the security pop up. That icon is a orange flower, the default Vista account icon. My user account, which is the only account ever used (knowingly) on this computer is a custom image. (I do not know if the security pop up uses a default icon or if it uses the icon associated with the account.) Again, the icon visible on the security pop up matches the ASP.Net account, NOT my user account.

Now, I'm beginning to think it's an email program setting issue, not a different user account.

I guessed that the security pop up needed my email logins. (I have three email accounts.) Sure enough, that worked.

I have NEVER needed to login to send or receive email before!!! How can I get rid of this persistent block?

Full disclosure: last night, prior to this problem manifesting itself, I tried to put a parental block on the internet. To do so, I was prompted to put a password on my account, the admin account listed above. I did so. I rebooted and entered the password to enter windows. Then, looking at my parental block controls, I elected NOT to add any parental blocks. I then deleted the password from my user account. I rebooted.

I am SURE that had something to do with what I'm facing. But how???

Can anyone help?

How do I stop windows from making me login to send/receive emails?

Thanks,
Ken

 

[iamc3k]

Solved.

It was NOT ASP.Net. Red herring with the icon matching up and with the ASP.Net being the only account needing a password and the new pop up window requesting a password.

Solution: The password request was only for send/receive email. I opened into Outlook Express/Tools/Accounts. I have three accounts. I selected each one, sequentially, and opened Properties/Servers Tab, and went to the Incoming Mail Server portion of the screen. There were two entries, blank: E-mail Username and Password. I filled them in with my email account username (just the portion in front of the "@....com"), and the password associated with that account. Voila.

Of course, the obvious question is, "why did Vista suddenly drop/change/reconfigure how my email program worked?"

Regardless, it's now working.

Moderators: if this thread would be more appropriate elsewhere, please move it. Note; I tried to change the thread title to "Outlook Express security pop up issue", but I could not.

Thanks,
Ken