OUTLOOK will not open

Dick_Turpin99

All of a sudden this morning when I try to open Outlook (on Win7) it opens and closes immediately and gives the following message. To say this is a disaster is putting it lightly!




What to do next?

rick@findthatfuchsia

Always worth trying Google: http://www.techforlunch.com/cannot-start-microsoft-office-outlook-cannot-open-the-outlook-window/

Dick_Turpin99

Thanks, will try that next!....I.T. guy is just running the error check on the Outlook files

rhythmsoup

As a alternative, you could download and install thunderbird for windows, then you could locate your outlook *pst files on your local machine and import them into thunderbird. At least then you have a way of reading any archived emails.

Thunderbird for windows
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-GB/thunderbird/

Importing pst files
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Import_.pst_files

You could even setup your email account in Thunderbird and have it there as an alternative until your fix outlook.

macman

IT Guy on call-out at 6.23am?

Dick_Turpin99

macman wrote: »

IT Guy on call-out at 6.23am?

Maybe 6:23am with you in UK, but its 10:23am with me :j

macman

!!!!!!_Turpin99 wrote: »

Maybe 6:23am with you in UK, but its 10:23am with me :j

I thought !!!!!! Turpin was last seen hanging around in in York? Which isn't 4 hours ahead of the rest of the UK

Dick_Turpin99

All sorted now, the IT king ran his repair thing on Outlook (where it checks in 8 stages?) he did it twice and when he hit the 'fix' button the second time Outlook opened immediately.

Anyway I think this was a result of the computer's batteries going flat with outlook running.
But it brought something home to me and that was the need to back-up a copy of all my mails on a seperate hard-drive, I guess the easiest way is through the export wizard, exporting as a .pst file selecting all the files and saving on a seperate drive - is it that simple?



All's well that ends up alright!

Dick_Turpin99

macman wrote: »

I thought !!!!!! Turpin was last seen hanging around in in York? Which isn't 4 hours ahead of the rest of the UK

Hahaha....working overseas now....work all dried up around York

Trinitrotoluene

!!!!!!_Turpin99 wrote: »

All sorted now, the IT king ran his repair thing on Outlook (where it checks in 8 stages?) he did it twice and when he hit the 'fix' button the second time Outlook opened immediately.

Anyway I think this was a result of the computer's batteries going flat with outlook running.
But it brought something home to me and that was the need to back-up a copy of all my mails on a seperate hard-drive, I guess the easiest way is through the export wizard, exporting as a .pst file selecting all the files and saving on a seperate drive - is it that simple?



All's well that ends up alright!

Yup it is that simple as long as you are on Outlook 2003 or above.