Try this, save the attachment, navigate to it in Explorer, right click,
select "Open With|Choose Default program". Is the "Always use..." checkbox
available now?

Hal
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"JP" wrote in message
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Windows Vista Ultimate, Outlook 2007, no Google desktop installed

The following issue: When trying to open or save an attachment (word,
excel,
powerpoint), you get a dialogue box asking whether you want to save/open
the
file. In the last line, there is a checkbox "Ask always before opening
this
file type". This checkbox is gray, and cannot be unchecked (view he
http://www.poetzsch-consulting.de/test/Nachfrage.jpg). Strange enough,
this
issue ocurrs with all attachments, except pdfs. For pdfs, for instance,
the
box can be unchecked.

How the box can be made accessable? Any clue?
Thanks