Comments on: How to fix Outlook 2003 startup crash

By: JmJ

JmJ — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:52:50 +0000

Try scanpst.exe. In my case the crashing of outlook was caused by damaged pst file.

By: Z. Wiedemann

Z. Wiedemann — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:54:05 +0000

WOW !!!

I had given up probably MONTHS ago after uninstalling Outlook 2007 on a SBS client XP Pro machine and “attempting” to reinstall the SBS network licensed version of Outlook 2003.

I had called MS and really was getting the run around. So I just had the user use the OWA interface …

But that is WAY too clugey … so I finally went looking again and found you via http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/microsoft-office-support/293331-outlook-2003-crashes-startup-after-i-uninstalled-office-2007-a.html … which I found from a Google search for [”outlook 2003″ crashes after removing”outlook 2007″] (result 87 of about 12,400)

THANK YOU … it worked right the 1st time … sigh…..

By: Mikey C

Mikey C — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:38:16 +0000

Above post should read “…uninstalling Office 2007…’

By: Mikey C

Mikey C — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:37:33 +0000

Greetings. I have had this problem since uninstalling Off 1007 and re-installing Outlook 2003. I have tried the renaming of the msmapi file, and creating a new profile, as well as installing Office SP2 file. I’m stumped. It only seems to have a problem when I add an email account into the program. Without the email account, Calendar, Contacts work fine. HELP

By: Keith Brown

Keith Brown — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:23:54 +0000

First I would like to thank-for for doing this for free because I wasted close to $500.00 with those MF@MS and it still was not working. Im the President/CEO of Par-lay Man. Ent, Inc. If you ever need tickets to a game or concert let me know and my office will make it happen. Once again thank-you. You can check me out on myspace.com/mrparlayman

By: Connelly

Connelly — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:54:51 +0000

Thanks! I’m at a corporation, which runs Outlook as “the” email program, and have repeatedly used your solution to fix Outlook every time it corrupts its profile.

By: WonderMel

WonderMel — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:39:34 +0000

Figured I would add to the good suggestions here. I do support and I find that a good fix for when Outlook is eating up alot of CPU delete the C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outcmd.dat file. It becomes corrupt ALOT and deleting it seems to fix alot of problems. When you re-open Outlook it recreats the file.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:12:49 +0000

It worked. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

By: Harry Soehalim

Harry Soehalim — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:39 +0000

I was thinking about switching to mozilla Thunderbird, until I was this article. Thanks TD.
For some of you who has multiple email accounts and didn’t want to reconfigure them all over again, you can try this approach:
- on step. 5, instead of selecting “Add”, try “Copy”
- restart Outlook with the new copied profile

if you like the name of your old profile, you can do this:
- remove the old profile (after you copied it, of course)
- copy the new profile and type in the old profile name
- you know what to do next …

Harry

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:17:03 +0000

deleted outloolk1pst file. outlook is now running on outlok.pst. I had several folder taps with many e-mails in the “all mail folders” under personal folders that arent there on the outlook.pst file. How can I recover and reset outlook to run of the 1.pst