I am running Outlook XP Student and Teacher edition, and frequently need to
toggle between contacts and calendar, email and memo notes, etc. To
accomplish this, one normally right clicks on one of the icons on the left
side Outlook toolbar, right clicks the new function, and opens in in a new
window.

Recently, this function has stopped functioning properly and, when I right
click on the icon, an error message appears that has no error number. It
merely states,
"Microsoft Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are
sorry for the inconvenience." It also asks if I want to report this to MS.
In explanatory notes, it appears that this is some unspecified type of .dll
error.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Office and, have restarted the computer,
all to no avail. Does anyone have any other suggestions about what the
problem may be and how to address it?

Outlook and Outlook Express are entirely different programs. You will get
better help in an MS Outlook newsgroup:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.outlook
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.General
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....configuration
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...k.installation
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.Contacts
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Calendaring
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ic.outlook.Fax
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...utlook.interop
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tlook.printing
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...Program_AddIns
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof....program_forms
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ok.Program_VBA
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ThirdPartyUtil

On the Web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...xp=&sloc=en-us
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"RayGot" wrote in message
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I am running Outlook XP Student and Teacher edition, and frequently need to
toggle between contacts and calendar, email and memo notes, etc. To
accomplish this, one normally right clicks on one of the icons on the left
side Outlook toolbar, right clicks the new function, and opens in in a new
window.

Recently, this function has stopped functioning properly and, when I right
click on the icon, an error message appears that has no error number. It
merely states,
"Microsoft Outlook has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are
sorry for the inconvenience." It also asks if I want to report this to
MS.
In explanatory notes, it appears that this is some unspecified type of
.dll
error.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Office and, have restarted the
computer,
all to no avail. Does anyone have any other suggestions about what the
problem may be and how to address it?