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Send email from Access - Outlook security pop-up comes up BEHIND other windows, and sometimes can't be "found" to click on it!

In an Access application, users can click a button to send an email to the person whose record they are currently viewing, sometimes with an automatically composed message. In some places, Access collects a group of people to generate emails for.  When Access tries to set up the email in Outlook, the infamous security warning pops up - where you have to click to allow access to Outlook for 1 minute, 5 minutes, etc.  The users are OK with this. However, on some users machines recently, the security warning seems to pop up BEHIND other windows, and at times the users can't find it at all! The result is that they can't  click on it, the emails don't get generated, and my database is "broken".

Is there some way to make the security warning pop up on TOP of everything? Isn't that what it is supposed to do?
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Thanks for all the feedback! The forms in Access are neither pop-up nor modal, so that isn't it.  Also, the odd thing is that this has started to happen on some user's computers, but not for others.  Of course it seems to work just fine on mine.  I think I'll have to check out both this click yes thing and Redemption. However, I'm guessing that either one of them would have to be installed on every user's computer... And I'm not sure if the customer really wants to bypass the security.  I will check the code in the morning to see if there is any place where I don't actually activate Outlook - that could possibly be it.  I'll let you know tomorrow if it might be the case, though I'll still have to wait until Monday for the people with the problem to try out a solution, since I don't have a direct link to those particular PC's.
"... to those particular PC's", no, but you can try different working habits: Outlook open in the background, Outlook minimized to the toolbar, not opened at all, etc.

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I wasn't able to actually get rid of the problem - I couldn't put any new programs on every user's computer, and nothing else seems to work consistently - but then the problem isn't consistent on everyone's PC either.  Go ahead and split the points - everyone tried to offer something.  Thanks!