Here are the messages I posted on the outlook installation board, and if you
check that board you'll find other people with the same complaint, also with
not one response.

Maybe MS has created this problem so that they can charge people to fix what
they broke... but thanks for your help and effort. Nice to know someone
cares... or pretends to anyway... what, you didn't even pretend to care,
only criticizes... so thanks for nothing.
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I had outlook 2002 and just updated to 2003. I installed from the CD just
outlook and not any of the other apps. now when I try to open it, I get a
"Windows Installer" dialog box telling me it's preparing to install. I get
the same results whether I have the CD in the drive or not. After about 10
minutes, it tells me it can't find the install server.

Anyone know what I need to do to get this thing working.
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Also, when I go onto mail.live.com and try to access my contacts, it tells
me it's trying to process my request, until I finally cancel out after 5 or
so minutes. I did have the connector installed on my old version of outlook
and I wonder if one has anything to do with the other... not that I believe
it does.
When I go into the control panel and click on mail, I get that windows
installer. I've tried deleting the profiles and creating a new profile, but
I still get that windows installer.
Also I can't close outlook when It tries to open and I try to cancel the
windows installer, I have to do the ctrl-alt-del but I have the outlook icon
in the task bar and if I click on it, I get a message something like, if I
have an exchange server I can cancel the request by clicking on the icon...
but I don't.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciate.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
...
If you have a problem that you think Outlook caused, then state why you
think it happened when installing/updating Outlook, what the exact errors
and error messages are and what you cannot do that you could before.

A general complaint with no specifics will almost never garner responses and
snide shots at Microsoft will get you ignored more often than not.

If you really want help, then fork over the $35 and contact Microsoft
Product Support Services - these news groups are peer-to-peer and no one
here is under any obligation to either read or respond to posts, especially
ones that go on about everything except what this group is for - Outlook
support.

Oh, and by the way, if your machine was working fine before and you did
something to "mess it up" then it is not MS that did it, but you.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Keppy asked:

| And, there's no help from MS to get it back the way it was. I've tried
| restoring, removing outlook but now when ever I try to use a windows
| component, I get a windows setup or windows install dialog box and
| it's never able to find what ever it's looking for. I can't even go
| into add remove windows components. My mail files were totally messed
| up and finally had to uninstall all my office apps to even get the
| search files and folders to open without the windows install dialog
| box.
|
| Because of all the updates, I can't even use my Windows xp pro CD to
| try to repair the damage that outlook 2003 caused. Years of work lost
| because I can't use the app needed, so even all the backup files I
| have are a waist.
|
| I've posted for help in the outlook 2003 newsgroup, but I was never
| answered and in looking back are previous posts, I see I'm not the
| only one with this exact problem and that person also NEVER received
| a response or help for the problem that MS caused.
|
| No wonder Bill Gates is leaving MS!