Neo, thanks for the suggestion, though it didn't solve much except for the
fact that the error message does not appear anymore, but outlook does not
start either. Vista displays "Microsoft Outlook does not function anymore....
searching for a solution" which it obviously does not find.

Any more ideas?

"neo [mvp outlook]" wrote:

Have you tried downloading/installing the VC2005 runtime?

For 32bit Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

For 64bit Vista:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en


"WilliamV" wrote in message
...
LS,

I run Vista Professional on a Dell Dimension Desktop. Until yesterday my
outlook functioned just fine. After installing a add-in called Sperry
Contact
Sort Order Add-In for Microsoft Outlook, my Outlook is corrupted and will
not
start anymore, displaying only the message: "This application cannot be
started because MSVC80.dll cannot be found. Reinstalling this application
could solve this problem."
I have tried multiple suggested solutions including:

-Removing the add-in
-Continued with removing and reinstalling the whole Office suite
-Just removing and reinstalling the Outlook part of the suite through add
and remove on the installation disk
-Checking my register and removing the remaining key for the Sperry add-in
-Further I looked into the suggestions of finding and editing the
outlook.exe.manifest file or even removing it.

All of the above have not resulted in any thing. The message keeps on
appearing. Is there anyone with a proper solution except for reinstalling
my
whole system?

Thanks in advance,
William