Microsoft Outlook fails to start porperly

[Guest]

No rhyme or reason to this problem as no changes have been made to my
operating system. I am running Outlook 2002 SP3 as part of XP.
The past two days when opening outlook, I get the standard error message
that Microsoft outlook has encountered an error and needs to shut down. I
have allowed the programme to send an error report, and restarted in safe
mode. Though checking safe mode reveals that NO functions have been disabled.
The only hint I get to the problem is that when wanting to send a message I
am told that Word cannot be found or is busy.
-- Also a New problem.

Any advice?? Solutions??

I have run detect and repair NUMEROUS times the past two days since this
problem is reoccuring.

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Any error messages in the application log?

 

[Guest]

And I would find the application log to outlook how?

 

[Guest]

I've been having the same problem for a while now (with the exception that
Outlook doesn't want to shut down) and would be interested in how to find and
fix the problem as well.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

You could try a Repair setup of XP, or running SFC to see if a system file is damaged.

To repair all system files, go to Start/Run, and type (or paste in): SFC /SCANNOW
875350 - How to remove Windows XP Service Pack 2 from your computer: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=875350 How to
Perform a Windows XP Repair Install: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
If you run an XP "Upgrade"setup, from the original, or "Gold" version of the setup CD, and you have SP2 installed, it might go into
a setup loop, and you could lose your install. Uninstall SP2, BEFORE you Upgrade setup from CD (that lacks sp2 on it.)