Outlook 2002 won't show "Outlook Today" at startup

[Guest]

My Outlook 2002 insists on bringing up my "Inbox" as the first thing it shows
at startup.

I assume I'm supposed to be able to set the startup page by going to "Tools
/ Options / Other / Advanced Options / Startup in this folder". But when I
set that to "Outlook Today" (or anything else), the first page that comes up
is always "Inbox". The options setting remains as it set it, but it doesn't
affect what actually shows up.

How to fix this?

- Thanks for your help, Ken Winter

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

How are you opening Outlook?

If you browse to Outlook.EXE in My Computer and double click on it, does
anything different happen?

 

[Guest]

Yesss! That's it!

I had been opening Outlook from a shortcut on the bar at the bottom of the
screen, and that shortcut simply pointed to something called "email" on my
desktop. Somehow, that was enough to open Outlook, but not apparently to
find its startup configuration file. Replacing that with a shortcut actually
pointing tyo outlook.exe makes it start up just fine.

- Thanks so much! Ken