Is Outlook running in the background? Use Task Manager to see if any
outlook.exe processes are active. Kill them all and then try it again.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, dave asked:

| very simply put i cannot get Outlook 2003 to open, at all, on my PC.
| I hit the Icon in the start menu, I hit the icon in the program list,
| i searched it and hit the icon. It just shows an hourglass for about
| 7 seconds and then nothing. It worked fine two days ago..... Help
| please!