OLMAP32.DLL Error after upgrade from Office 2003 to Office 2007 onXP/SP3 machine

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Guest

Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!

I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).

Thanks in advance for any help!
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer until you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!

I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).

Thanks in advance for any help!
 
G

Guest

We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer until you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of Outlook..
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.

--
Russ Valentine

Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!

I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).

Thanks in advance for any help!

Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
 
H

Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]

Here's how:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
How to create a new e-mail profile in Outlook 2007 and in Outlook 2003

Hal
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We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer until you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.

--
Russ Valentine

Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!

I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).

Thanks in advance for any help!

Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Product=out2003

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.

--
Russ Valentine

Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!

I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).

Thanks in advance for any help!

Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...

--
Russ Valentine






Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?

Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
 
G

Guest

There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine

On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?

Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?

PS—I am in “classic view.”
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine

On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?

Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?

PS—I am in “classic view.”
 
G

Guest

Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]


There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterpriseon
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”

On the installation CD or am I missing something????

Thanks for your patience!
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]


There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”

On the installation CD or am I missing something????

Thanks for your patience!
 
G

Guest

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine

Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”

On the installation CD or am I missing something????

Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!
 
G

Guest

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine

Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007 Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”

On the installation CD or am I missing something????

Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine

Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”

On the installation CD or am I missing something????

Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!
 
G

Guest

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
--
Russ Valentine

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgradeof
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimentingwith
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!
 
G

Guest

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
--
Russ Valentine

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgradeof
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimentingwith
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!
 
G

Guest

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
--
Russ Valentine

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgradeof
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimentingwith
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!
 
R

Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]

Starting what in safe mode?

--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
--
Russ Valentine

You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot
answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade
of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that
works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in
multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting
with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!

I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!
 
G

Guest

Starting what in safe mode?

--
Russ Valentine

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
On Jul 4, 12:34 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot
answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade
of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that
works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in
multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting
with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!
I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!

Got it! Deleted the "Resiliency" key from the left-over Office 11
stuff in the registry and the problem vanished.
 
G

Guest

Starting what in safe mode?

--
Russ Valentine

Not the recommended procedure because that does nothing to correct the
Outlook profile that was corrupted by the "upgrade" installation. That
profile and its settings still remain. You should still run Office
diagnostics and create a new profile.
On Jul 4, 12:34 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
You can run it from your Start menu: Office Diagnostics
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 4, 10:59 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Then there is a lot more that's wrong with your installation. Run the
Office
Maintenance Wizard as I suggested.
--
Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]

On Jul 4, 10:00 am, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
There has to be if this is Windows XP and Outlook is installed. Are
you
using the classic view of Control Panel?
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 5:10 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;829918&Produc...
--
Russ Valentine
On Jul 3, 4:07 pm, "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
We have no idea what "solutions" you've tried so we cannot
answer
until
you
tell us.
In general, you should never attempt to do an in-place upgrade
of
Outlook.
If you must, then you must first create a brand new Outlook
profile
from
scratch. Any pre-existing profile won't work.
Create a new profile and run the Office Maintenance Wizard.
--
Russ Valentine
Two days ago I upgraded from Office 2003 to Office 2007
Enterprise
on
a laptop running XP/SP3. Everything I've tried in the office
suite
seems to work well except Outlook. Even after applying Office
SP1,
whenever I try to start Outlook I get a tiny error box that
simply
says error, OLMAPI32.DLL. I have spent more time than I would
like
to
admit Googling the problem but have found no solution that
works
for
me although I've tried various solutions that appear in
multiple
discussions of the problem—up to and including experimenting
with
removing all registry references to OLMAPI32.DLL. Nothing has
helped!
I definitely need Outlook on my laptop. Does anyone have a
solution
to this problem which, as far as I can see, Microsoft has not
documented (perhaps I'd missed something?).
Thanks in advance for any help!
Fair enough--how then do I create a new Outlook profile without
changing my user profile?
Thank you for this link which jogged my memory. I remember now
having
set up mail profiles in just this way. There is only one
problem—when
I go to control panel on the machine in question there is no “Mail”
applet. How could that be?
PS—I am in “classic view.”
On the installation CD or am I missing something????
Thanks for your patience!
I wound up uninstalling Office, manually deleting the Office folder,
and reinstalling. Now all is well--except that I keep getting an
"Outlook failed to start" error dialogue before Outlook starts. The
message asks if I would like to start Outlook in safe mode which I
have done but nothing is jumping out at me as to what to do about this
problem. Otherwise Outlook seems to be working perfectly!

I tried starting again in safe mode and ran diagnostics but the pesky
error box keeps coming up anyway!

Got it! Deleted the "Resiliency" key from the left-over Office 11
stuff in the registry and the problem vanished.
 

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