Outlook: Download pictures automatically without right-click
Posted by MickeyMouse in Microsoft Outlook
So Outlook prevented the automatic download of pictures within your email? Here is how to get outlook to download the pictures without any problems.
Users of recent versions of outlook will see this message frequently:
- Right-click here to download picture. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the internet.
First, let me explain why outlook does this. When you download a html-formatted email, your computer contacts a computer (other than your mail server) and grabs the pictures for you. From where those pictures are downloaded is based on the html in the email.
This spammer can use this to his/her gain. By formatting the email with certain techniques, the spammer can use this to detect which email addresses downloaded and viewed the email. If a spammer believes that your email address is reading the spam (by your email program downloading the pictures), then you are more likely to get more spam.
Have I scared you enough?
However, if you have a mail server based spam protection, you may not actually get much spam. If this is true, then you can download your pictures more safely.
Download pictures automatically in Outlook:
- 1. Open Outlook
2. Click Tools menu
3. Select Options
4. Click the Security tab
5. Click Change Automatic Download Settings button
6. Select when you want pictures downloaded
7. Click OK X 2
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July 31, 2010 at 5:13 am, jordy willow said:
That makes no sense what so ever, this is how you do it
The tools menu is the file button, click on the file button
Then on the left hand side you should see the “Options” button click on that
Then another screen will come up
on that screen on the left hand side click “Trust Centre”
In the trust centre menu down the bottom you should see “Trust Menu Settings”
click on that
Now on the left hand side of that menu you should see the button “Automatic Downloads” click on that
Where it says
“Dont download pictures automaticly in HTML in email mesages or RSS items”
you should see the tick next to this, click on the tick so that the tick is not there anymore
after that press “Ok” button down the bottom and the the “ok” button on the other menu and thats it
August 11, 2010 at 6:34 am, Pamela Kirsch said:
How is this done in Outlook 2010? Thanks.
August 12, 2010 at 9:23 pm, Scaccia101 said:
Wow You guys are suck really bad. IN VISTA or the newiest Version of Outlook
1.Start Outlook
2. Click Tools
3. Click Trust Center
4. Turn it off an click Okay
August 14, 2010 at 3:17 am, Lkracht said:
Works PERFECT in Outlook 2003. Thank You!
February 12, 2011 at 10:13 pm, DOCSTER said:
Outlook 2002 does not have a trusted center
March 03, 2011 at 1:28 pm, Guest said:
can it be done by changing registry / GPO?
March 07, 2011 at 4:19 pm, Rex the Strange said:
Just to dispel the rumours about spammers being “more likely” to spam you, consider the following rule of thumb – once you get on a spam list you ain’t ever getting off – you’ll get the same spam if you download the image or not.
June 26, 2011 at 8:44 am, Naughtyaashiq said:
@ jordy willow Scaccia101 Thank u guysssss..
September 11, 2011 at 11:02 am, 123beta said:
Automatically Download Pictures in Outlook…
-Outlook 2007- 1. Click Tools. 2. Select Trust Center. 3. In the left pane, select Automatic Download. 4. In the right pane, un-check the Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS items check-box. 5. Click OK. -Outlook 2010- …
November 11, 2011 at 4:06 pm, Richard said:
Your instructions did not work with Windows7 and Outlook 2007
To download Pictures Imbedded in Emails Automatically in Windows 7/Outlook 2007:
1. In Outlook 2007 click on the Tools tab and on the drop down menu click on “Trust Centre”
2. In the next window on the left hand side of that menu you should see the button “Automatic Downloads”, select that.
3. Where it says “Don’t download pictures automatically in HTML in email messages or RSS items” uncheck the box.
4. Make sure that box is no longer checked and then select the “OK” button at the bottom
December 12, 2011 at 8:20 pm, gio said:
when i open a picture of my friend in my facebook account, it will automatically downloading it. what should i do to prevent automatic dowloading?
January 07, 2012 at 2:16 pm, glmcg1 said:
Using Outlook 7 with Windows XP, I don’t see “Trust Centre” when I click on “Tools” What to do?