When I try to open up Outlook 2007 it tries to connect an exchange server and
tells me Outlook must be online or connected to this task. Then it brings up
a dialog box to enter my mailbox domain & name and regardless what I put in
there, it says that c:\documents ... \Local Files\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost is not a valid offline folder file.

My question is how can I prevent this from automatically checking the
exchange server, because I just want a POP3 mail which it isnt giving me. I
have tried to uninstall office and when I reinstall it, it still
automatically checks.

Can someone please enlighten me on how I can prevent it from Outlook attempt
to auto configure. eg. I want to enter startup screen again.

Thanks, Josh