Outlook 2007 will not open .Program has run well for 2 years. Now its impossible to open/start the program.Always get this message: "Cannot start with Microsoft Office Outlook.Cannot openthe Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened .Errors have been detected in the file C:\User\John Watkins\AppData\Local\\microsoft\outlook\outlook.pst.Quit Outlookand all mail-enabled aplicationsand then use Inbox repair tool (Scanpst.exe) to diagnose and repair errors in the file.For more information about the Inbox repair tool, see Help" This message appears every time and the window never opens. i have tried Scanpst but it just asks to input the file to repair--I have no idea what file is wrong and every file(outlook files) I put in its says is "invalid /wrong path" Help!!!!

1. In Outlook 2007, click the Tools menu and select Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click the Mail Setup tab and then click the Data Files button.
3. In the Account settings window, you will see all of your personal Outlook data files listed. Here, you want to note the full path to each data file. On my system, my Outlook personal and archive folders are stored in the C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder.
4. Once you have this information, close the Account Settings dialog box and then close the Outlook Options window.

Now that you have the location of your Outlook data files, you need to check and repair them using the Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Inbox Repair Tool-SCANPST.exe. By default, you should see SCANPST.exe in the Microsoft Office installation folder's "Office 12" subfolder. On my system, SCANPST.exe is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 12. For additional information on SCANPST.exe, take a look at the Microsoft Knowledge Base article, "How to use the Inbox Repair Tools to recover e-mail messages in Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2003."

To check and repair your Outlook data files, follow these steps:

1. First, close Outlook 2007.
2. Use Windows Explorer to browse to SCANPST.exe, then double-click it.
3. When the Outlook 2007 Inbox Repair Tool opens, click Browse and navigate to the Outlook data file location that you found earlier. Note that you will need to check each file listed. On my system, I start with the file archive.pst. To check that file, you would select it in the "Select File to Scan" dialog box and then click Open.
4. Now click Start to begin the repair process.

Try to open Outlook in safe mode. Follow thses steps to do it.

1.Click on start button (for Vista it will be Windows button ) and click on Run.
2.Type outlook.exe /safe and press enter.
3.If outlook is not starting then we have to do a detect and repair. Follow these steps to do that.

Detect and repair.

1.Click on Start button (for Vista it will be Windows button ) and click on Run.
2.Type outlook.exe /safe and press enter.
3.Go to Help tab in Outlook and select office diagnostics, click on continue and click on Run Diagnostics.

Method 2:

Try to open Outlook without addins.

1.Click on start button and click on Run.
2.Type outlook.exe /a and press enter.

If he can open Outlook in this way, then the third party addins are causing the issue. This can be resolved by
removing the third party addins. Follow these steps to remove third party addins.

1.Open Outlok and click On the Tools menu, click Trust Center, and then click Add-ins.(for Office 2007).
2.In the Add-ins box, identify the add-in that you want to disable and note the Add-in type located in the Type
column.
3.Select the Add-in type in the Manage box and then click Go.
4.clear the check box for the Add-in that you want to disable and then click OK.

Method3:

Press Cntrl+Alt+Delete to open task manager and click on processes. click on outlook.exe and click on End process.
If there is multiple outlook.exe running end all of them. Try to open outlook after ending all outlook.exe processes.

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Method4:
Take a back up of pst files and reinstall Outlook . follow these steps to take a backup of pst files.

1.Close any messaging programs such as Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, or Microsoft Windows Messaging.
2.Click on start button and go to setting and open control panel.
3.Double-click the Mail icon.
4.Click Show Profiles.
5.Click the appropriate profile, and then click Properties.
6.Click Data Files.
7.Under Name, click the Personal Folders Service that you want to back up. By default, this service is called Personal 8.Folders. However,
it may be named something else
9.Click Settings, and then note the path and file name that appears.
10.Close all the Properties windows.
11.Open the file through the path and copy it to a new folder as backup.

This issue may occur if you deploy Outlook 2003 with the Microsoft Office 2003 Custom Installation Wizard and specify a personal folder (.pst) file in the Windows Installer transform (MST file) by using the Default location for PST files path option. The problem occurs because you specify a file name instead of a folder path.

To resolve this issue for future installations of Office, use the Custom Installation Wizard to edit the MST file. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the Change Office User Settings page (page 10 of 24), expand Microsoft Outlook 2003, expand Miscellaneous, and then click PST Settings.
2. In the right pane, double-click Default location for PST files, and then type the path that you want in the Default location for PST files box. For example, type %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\.
3. Click OK, and then follow the steps to complete the wizard. When you have corrected the MST file, deploy Office by using the correct MST file.

To resolve this issue for an existing installation of Outlook that is experiencing this problem, specify the .pst file by using the Mail icon in Control Panel.

Or If you are receiving and Err like
Error message when you start Outlook: "Unable to open the Outlook window," "No profile has been created," or "The list of Profiles cannot be loaded"Follow the step's below:This issue may occur on a computer that is running Windows XP if the Outlook.exe file was configured to open with the Windows program compatibility mode setting. When you set compatibility for Outlook to Windows 95 or to Windows 98/Windows Millennium Edition, Outlook displays this error message. This is because the location of the Outlook Profile information in the registry differs on a Windows XP-based computer.

To resolve this issue, follow these steps:

1. Locate Outlook.exe.
   
   Outlook.exe is typically located in one of the following folders, depending on the version of Outlook that you are running:
   • Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
   • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
   • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 11
   • Microsoft Outlook 2002 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 10
   • Microsoft Outlook 2000 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office 9
2. Right-click Outlook.exe, and then click Properties.
3. On the Compatibility tab, click to clear the Run this program in compatibility mode for check box.
4. Click OK.
5. Try to start Outlook. If you receive error message again, use Method 2.

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As an old Outlook user (for over a decade). I ever met similar error with my Outlook PST files before and got it solved with this Outlook PST repair software, the software extracts & restores those inaccessible Outlook items in a new .pst file and enables complete Outlook data recovery. If you want to take the most effective way, then try that program. Hope it helps too with your case.

Hi, from the "Start Menu" go to the Conrol Panel, select the "Add a Program ? Uninstall a program, open the window, next find the "Microsoft OutLook," select to ("Repair") a program, the "Wizard" will Run! Next, restart the computer after the application finish. "If the solution helped? Rating it is appreciated, thanks."

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When opening a Microsoft Office program or file you may get a message that says “Office Application Version Does Not Match Error”. This is most likely caused by having the Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager installed on your computer. Many computers that come with the Office trial program installed will have this on their computer from when it was new.

There are a couple of ways to get rid of this error. First you can install the update from Microsoft that gets rid of the error.

Or you can go into Add and Remove Programs (XP) or Programs and Features (Vista) and uninstall the Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager if you don ’t use it. It won’t affect any of your Office programs. You may get a message during the uninstall process that it can’t remove it from your Outlook profile but just click Ok and finish the uninstall.

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Bit of an odd one this error message. It is issued when you start Microsoft Word 2007 (or indeed Excel 2007, PowerPoint 2007 or Publisher 2007) on a computer that has Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager installed. You can download a a patch that will stop this error message appearing here.


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Hey,

I was having the same problem with Outlook 2007 on my Laptop, looked for all the possible resolutions but no Clue..
Then I tried to check the addins I was using in Outlook 2007, I found that after disabling the unnecessary addins from Regsitry I am able to use outlook 2007 without any issues.

For Disabling the outlook addisn you have to go to:
Start> Run> Type Regedit> Hit Entre> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>SOFTWARE>MICROSOFT>OFFICE> OUTLOOK>ADDINS there you will find all the Addins, Please right click on the onw which is not required to go to modify & change the value to 0.
It will disable the Addins from Registry. we can enable the Addin when ever required.

Close & re launch your Outlook.

Hope this will help you in resolving the issue related to the outlook crashing.

Cheers!!!!

Vivek

Try this, sometimes you can get outlook to boot into safemode and then do a backup of your pst, uninstall outlook and reinstall, then import from your pst. Use User-Initiated Safe mode To start a Microsoft Office program in User-Initiated Safe mode:
On the Microsoft Windows Start menu

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, and then point to Microsoft Office.
2. Press and hold the CTRL key, and then click the name of the Microsoft Office program that you want to run.

In the Command Prompt window
At the command prompt, use the /safe option when you start the program.
To stop User-Initiated Safe mode, exit the program then start it again normally.
What User-Initiated Safe mode does The following restrictions apply when you start a program in User-Initiated Safe mode. (Some items listed below do not apply to all Microsoft Office programs.)

• No templates (template: A file or files that contain the structure and tools for shaping such elements as the style and page layout of finished files. For example, Word templates can shape a single document, and FrontPage templates can shape an entire Web site.) can be saved.
• In Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer, the last used Web site is not opened.
• Toolbar or command bar customizations are not loaded, and customizations cannot be saved.
• The AutoCorrect list is not loaded, and changes are not saved.
• Recovered documents are not automatically opened.
• Smart tags (smart tags: Data recognized and labeled as a particular type. For example, a person's name or the name of a recent Microsoft Outlook e-mail message recipient is a type of data that can be recognized and labeled with a smart tag.) are not loaded, and new tags cannot be saved.
• All command-line options are ignored except /a and /n.
• Files cannot be saved to the Alternate Startup Directory.
• Preferences cannot be saved.
• Additional features and programs are not automatically loaded.
• Documents with restricted permission cannot be created or opened.

Try opening Outlook from run command window
Start > Run > Outlook /safe

If it works fine close outlook

Go to following registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins

Delete the addin key from the regitry

Happy computing :)

Hi

I found the solutiom from microsoft

1. On the Start menu, point to All Programs or Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer. 2. In Windows Explorer, edit the file type. To do this, follow these steps, as appropriate for the version of Windows that you are running: • For Microsoft Windows XP or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition, follow these steps: a. On the Tools menu, click Folder Options. b. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol under the (NONE) section, and then click Advanced. c. Under Actions, click Open, and then click Edit. d. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2002, type the following text under Application used to perform action: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"If you are running Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, type the following text under Application used to perform action: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"If you are running Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, type the following text under Application used to perform action: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1" e. Click OK two times. • For Microsoft Windows 98, follow these steps: a. On the View menu, click Folder Options. b. On the File Types tab, click URL:MailTo Protocol, and then click Edit. c. Under Actions, click Open, and then click Edit. d. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2002, type the following text under Application used to perform action: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1"If you are running Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, type the following text under Application used to perform action: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\OUTLOOK.EXE" -c IPM.Note /m "%1" e. Click OK two times. 3. In Internet Explorer, verify the e-mail program. To do this, follow these steps: a. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options. b. On the tab, change the default mail program to Outlook Express in the E-mail box, and then click Apply. c. In the E-mail box, change the default mail program back to Outlook, and then click Apply. d. Close the Internet Options dialog box. e. Click Start, click Run, type mailto:, and then click OK.
you can also visit http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312346

Hope this will solve the problem