Solved Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.

[fdt]

Does anyone have a fix for this issue?

 

[mrwizard]

I had this problem on a customers laptop with Vista Home Premium and Microsoft office 2007 Enterprise.

I've often seen similar errors with Office including things going wrong with Word, Excel, basically any Microsoft Office application.
Nearly all of these errors can be solved by allowing Office to re-create it's profile folders. I fixed the same problem you are having with this procedure...

1. Close all office applications
2. Browse to and RENAME the following folders (do not delete them if you wish to avoid losing any emails and address books). I normally stick an _ on the end to make it "foldername_"

For Microsoft Outlook...
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook

For other Microsoft Office Programs...
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office

3. Open problematic application (Outlook in this case)

The next problem you will have with OUTLOOK is your Personal Folders file will be new and therfore empty (none of your old emails, calendar or contacts in there!).
Don't panic though, all you need to do is the following...

1. Open Outlook
2. Go to File>Import and Export...
3. Choose "Import from another program of file" and click next
4. Choose "Personal Folder File (.pst)" and click next
5. Click the browse button and locate the folder that you previously renamed
C:\Users\<yourusername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook_ ??
6. Choose the "Outlook.pst" file (which should be more than 1KB if it contains anything) and click the "Open" Button at the bottom
7. Click "Next" and then "Finish" and watch all of your lovely emails, calendar appointments and contacts fly back into your active profile!

Hope that works for you guys.

MrWizard

 

[shor]

Sure I have the fix. Go to run and type outlook.exe/ resetnavpane

 

[shor]

First of all this error has nothing to do with Vista SP 2. I had the error long before I ran SP 2. It is really quite simple to fix.
Go to run and type outlook.exe/resetnavpane :D

I may be a newbie here but its not my first rodeo. Enjoy

 

[shor]

Excuse the small typo...you need a space between .exe and / so type outlook.exe /resetnavpane in run and that should do it.

 

[richpb7]

Worked for me - nice trick.

 

[sleadrider]

Go to run and type outlook.exe/resetnavpane -- Worked great for me... thank you very much for the post..

 

[shor]

You are welcome. I might mention that I reset mine last year and have not had any troubles since. So this seems to fix it for good.

 

[Lynchmob]

Thanks for the help ( and the need for the space in the run direction)

I have XP and the same solution worked !!

Thanks again

 

[shor]

Well thanks, anytime you want to boost my power rating feel free to do so. My answer has helped about 5-6 others and no-one stroked me on the back yet. I could use a little rating increase.

 

[JMH]

Well thanks, anytime you want to boost my power rating feel free to do so. My answer has helped about 5-6 others and no-one stroked me on the back yet. I could use a little rating increase.

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[Lynchmob]

Shor

Happy to assist - need directions on how to help.

 

[tiffanie29]

Thank You so much this totally worked for me.

 

[madasaalex28272]

ok i have had the same problem with outlook not starting and i went to to the outlook.exe/resetnavpane in run and it said it cannot be found and i should locate the program.
im confused, why wont it work for me but it work for everyone else!

 

[tiffanie29]

Excuse the small typo...you need a space between .exe and / so type outlook.exe /resetnavpane in run and that should do it.

This was posted by Shor... He Rocks!!!

 

[madasaalex28272]

Excuse the small typo...you need a space between .exe and / so type outlook.exe /resetnavpane in run and that should do it.

This was posted by Shor... He Rocks!!!

i did that and i get this message - windows cannot find outlook.exe. make sure you types the name correctly, and try again

 

[songbird72]

I have the same problem. Before installing SP2 with my Vista Business Pro 6.0 OS, I could click on an email addy and outlook would come up and I could send messages thru my ISP, which is Comcast.net. Now, an error box comes up stating : "cannot access outlook express." What do I do?

 

[Wednesdae]

Go to run and type outlook.exe/resetnavpane -- Worked great for me... thank you very much for the post..

Sorry, but can you tell me where "run" is on my computer, I really have having a hard time with this.
Thanks

 

[songbird72]

There is no run on my computer.

 

[lakshmi pallavi]

Hi everyone ... I was using Windows XP when this problem with outlook occured.
This outlook.exe/resetnavpane - worked really well and I am so glad I did not have to lose data.

Thank you for having given this solution else I would have been in big trouble.