Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
Office 365 and the email is a PoP/IMAO
Outlook email keeps prompting for a password, and then not accept it. Blocked out of emails.
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Anonymous
Why does my Outlook email keep asking for a password, and then not accept it. This started today with a pop up window, and now after several restarts and password entries my Outlook will not open at all, so I cannot copy and paste the error message. Something seems to have changed since earlier in the day. I am using Outlook (not new, in Microsoft 365).
Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
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Anonymous
2025-03-12T19:52:14+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-03-11T19:08:46+00:00 "AutoDiscover" does not always exist. Try creating it and see what happens.
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Anonymous
2025-03-11T17:48:27+00:00 I am using an ISP server, gvtc, for my email. I also had a very recent issue based on a background update that will not let Outlook accept my email password.
This is a personal account through Microsoft 365 (current update), running New Outlook, IMAP.
It had been working fine. I have verified the password is correct and is still be accepted via webmail and the mobile version of Outlook.
My registry does not show an AutoDiscover path.
What would be next?
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Anonymous
2025-03-10T21:31:45+00:00 I know that other users in this thread are not using Hotmail/Outlook.com accounts... but holy cow, this is exactly what I needed to fix my Outlook 365 not allowing me to log in to my passwordless account! Not even the Microsoft Level 2 tech support that I dealt with in Quick Assist knew to do that! Thank you so much!
In my case, I noticed that a clean install on another computer did not have this value at all, yet on my computer with the issue, it existed with a value of "0", so changing it to "1" fixed it.
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Anonymous
2025-03-09T20:34:39+00:00 I need help with the password issues