What was the error and what has been logged to the Event Viewer?
Does it still load in Outlook Safe Mode?
Start- Run; outlook.exe /safe
(note the space in the command)

For additional solutions to startup issues see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm

--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

-----

"eschummer" wrote in message
...
outlook was working fine, i was working on contact folder, and then it
closed with an error, and since then, when outlook starts imeediately
dims
down and wont start ( closes down)

how can you fix ?

thanks for your help