Outlook still won't start

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Jim Craig

After over a year of flawless operation, suddenly my
Outlook won't open. When I try to open it, the logo pops
up, then I get the following error message: "Cannot start
Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open Outlook Window"

I ran detect and repair to no avail!

I then wrote to this forun, and after Russ Responded, I
took his advice and renamed the file "outcmd.dat" (with
Outlook closed) to clear the toolbars. I searched my hard
drive for a file called outcmd.dat and renamed it to
outcmd.old then restarted Outlook (as this didn't cure my
problem, I renamed the file back to outcmd.dat so as to
regain any customization of the Toolbars).

It didn't help, The error continued. I then uninstalled
Office XP, including deleting al the Office files in the
Windows\Application Data\ subdirectory, and reinstalled
Office XP, and that was after totally emptying the system
Tray. Upon restart the error continued! Any idea what's
wronmg here?
 
Can you open Outlook in Safe Mode? Start->run->outlook.exe /safe (notice
the space after the .exe)

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Jim Craig <[email protected]> asked:
| After over a year of flawless operation, suddenly my
| Outlook won't open. When I try to open it, the logo pops
| up, then I get the following error message: "Cannot start
| Microsoft Outlook. Unable to open Outlook Window"
|
| I ran detect and repair to no avail!
|
| I then wrote to this forun, and after Russ Responded, I
| took his advice and renamed the file "outcmd.dat" (with
| Outlook closed) to clear the toolbars. I searched my hard
| drive for a file called outcmd.dat and renamed it to
| outcmd.old then restarted Outlook (as this didn't cure my
| problem, I renamed the file back to outcmd.dat so as to
| regain any customization of the Toolbars).
|
| It didn't help, The error continued. I then uninstalled
| Office XP, including deleting al the Office files in the
| Windows\Application Data\ subdirectory, and reinstalled
| Office XP, and that was after totally emptying the system
| Tray. Upon restart the error continued! Any idea what's
| wronmg here?
 
Tried, it doesn't do anything different in the safe mode
than it does in the Normal mode, and it still wont open.
 
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