How do I enable Developer Mode for Outlook 2010 by only using the registry?

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I've researched this a bit and came up dry. I've checked HKCU/Software/Microsoft but Office is not listed. Our company uses Office 2010 Pro Plus. Under HKLM, I can see Office 14.0 but Outlook/Options keys are not there. I've created the DeveloperTools 32bit DWORD and set the value to 1 under HKLM and HKCU with the following paths, but neither worked:

HKCU/Software/Microsoft/Office/14.0/Outlook/Options/DeveloperTools = 1

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Office/14.0/Outlook/Options/DeveloperTools = 1

I am trying to use the registry because I need to modify many machines within our domain and don't want to send an email out asking everyone to "check the box" so-to-speak. Thanks for anyone's help.

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Did you restart Outlook after modifying the key? – Dmitry Streblechenko
I did. I closed and reopened it to no avail. – madwheel

2 Answers

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It looks like you have a wrong key - at least under Outlook 2013 the key is

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\General]
"ReportAddinCustomUIErrors"=dword:00000001
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You can use the Process Monitor utility for monitoring the windows registry activity.

Also check out whether the Click2Run edition of Outlook is installed on the machine. See Verify Whether Outlook Is a Click-to-Run Application on a Computer for more information.