Bill, My Acer, ($349 at Walmart two weeks ago) has the same problem with
outlook. The other office applications seem to work fine. The first time I
ran Outlook after install it worked. Thereafter, it will not load or run.

I hope someone can help us with the problem.

Roger

"Bill_" wrote:

Good day.
I'm having a horrible problem with Microsoft Outlook 2007 on a new Acer
laptop running Vista Home Premium.
The program ran while I was setting it up and before I finished setting it
up, it crashed.
Now, I get a window: Outlook.exe - Unable to locate component. This
application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found.
Reinstalling the application may fix the problem.

Actually, reinstalling the application did not fix the problem, nor did
building a new Outlook profile.

Any ideas?