On Feb 6, 12:26*pm, Outlook013
wrote:
Have used Outlook 2003 without issue on this PC for several years. *Auto
Updates is on. *Outlook now will not open.

The Outlook desktop appears, then the message "Business Contact Manager has
encountered a problem and needs to close..." *After getting past this Error
Reporting message, the next box offers to "Start in Safe Mode to isolate the
problem..." *This only results in a repeating circuit of these same two
messages (see above) over and over as I click through them.

I tried to troubleshoot by reinstalling Outlook and Business Contact Manager
with no effect. *No specific message appears identifying a corrupt file or
missing component. *I cannot use Windows diagnostic tools as I cannot open
the program. *

Help! *Thanks.

This happened to me before and what had happened was I had taken out
the SQL service that Business Contact Manager needs to run. I simply
went msconfig, started it, rebooted, and it worked again.