Just wanted to say:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

"Tom Jelen tomjelenlandscapes@comcast." wrote:

Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

appears to have resolved the problem.
start paste and hit run

but when trying to open a new mail I now get the message that I do not have
the appropriate premission to do that operation

wow what idiot wrote the office program? its just a fancy way to send
email made difficult and I was stupid enough to purchase this program .
next time Im pruchasing an apple and throwning all this microsoft crap away
I have had it

Amazing. Thank you so very much for the info!

"ChadH" wrote:

i am running Outlook 2007 and ran into this issue today for no apparent
reason. I rebooted my machine after a short internet outage, and BAM! "Cannot
open outlook..."

Under deadline, I Frantically started Googling the problem finding that most
people were donig uninstalls, system restores, and many other time consuming
cannibalistic things to try and fix the issue.

Then I found this post... within 10 seconds of reading and typing
Outlook.exe /resetnavpane i was back in business without the headache of
smoking 1/2 my machine to fix the problem.

Dan... the next time I am out at the pub, i will raise a glass for you my
friend.

Thank you very much.

ChadH

"Dan Thomas" wrote:

Ok mate, I got it going...

Now this is a bit vague because I was trying to reset everything but the
process was:

1) Removed my ost (yes I'm using exchange) - well I renamed it
outlook.ost.old in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and
renamed my archive folder in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
2) Uninstalled all addins
3) found this page and started playing with no success
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...6865&p=1&ntf=1

... UNTIL I ran Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

Clears and regenerates the Navigation Pane for the current profile. Removes
all Shortcuts and Favorite Folders. Has the same effect as deleting
profilename.xml in your user directory.

After this, I was able to get back into outlook!

The only clue as to why this may have worked is because when I got the
problem, another XML file on my machine (required to run one of my
development programs) had also become corrupted - I can only guess that
perhaps the profilename.xml possibly became corrupted in a similar kind of
way...

I'm really sorry I cannot give any more detail: I've been effectively
button-mashing (ok, running varous command-line switches mainly to do with
"cleaning" stuff) but it only worked once this switch was executed.

It may be a combination or specifically this switch, but I hope this
provides a little bit of a clue...

-- Dan

"CliffB" wrote:

Since I have a second machine, I have been living with the issue on my Vista
machine. I have not heard any 'fixes' although it seems there are more
reports like ours.

Resisting a complete rebuild ...

Cliff

"CliffB" wrote:

Unable to start Outlook; rcv dialog "Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook;
Cannot open the Outlook Window". Error occurred AFTER a Norton 2009 "idle
time scan" hang DURING an Outlook send/receive that was apparrently hung due
to Norton.

I have attempted several published fixes including Scanpst,
DeleteOutlookProfiles, running Outlook with /safe switch (same error),
uninstall/reinstall Outlook, turning Norton 2009 off during my process, etc.

On reinstall (after running DeleteOutlookProfiles), I create a new profile
and a new Outlook PST ... still receive the "cannot open..." error.

Any further suggestions - hopefully short of resorting to my recovery image?

Thanks,

Cliff

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. I was almost on the verge of
reinstalling the outlook program (all because of the error message "Cannot
start microsoft office outlook. Cannot open the outlook window.") because
none of the fixes were working (scanning and repairing the pst files,
creating a new profile, and trying to open from various points on the hard
drive) and running Outlook.exe/resetnavpane corrected it right then and
there. Thank you.

Pietro

"Dan Thomas" wrote:

Ok mate, I got it going...

Now this is a bit vague because I was trying to reset everything but the
process was:

1) Removed my ost (yes I'm using exchange) - well I renamed it
outlook.ost.old in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and
renamed my archive folder in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
2) Uninstalled all addins
3) found this page and started playing with no success
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...6865&p=1&ntf=1

... UNTIL I ran Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

Clears and regenerates the Navigation Pane for the current profile. Removes
all Shortcuts and Favorite Folders. Has the same effect as deleting
profilename.xml in your user directory.

After this, I was able to get back into outlook!

The only clue as to why this may have worked is because when I got the
problem, another XML file on my machine (required to run one of my
development programs) had also become corrupted - I can only guess that
perhaps the profilename.xml possibly became corrupted in a similar kind of
way...

I'm really sorry I cannot give any more detail: I've been effectively
button-mashing (ok, running varous command-line switches mainly to do with
"cleaning" stuff) but it only worked once this switch was executed.

It may be a combination or specifically this switch, but I hope this
provides a little bit of a clue...

-- Dan

"CliffB" wrote:

Since I have a second machine, I have been living with the issue on my Vista
machine. I have not heard any 'fixes' although it seems there are more
reports like ours.

Resisting a complete rebuild ...

Cliff

"CliffB" wrote:

Unable to start Outlook; rcv dialog "Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook;
Cannot open the Outlook Window". Error occurred AFTER a Norton 2009 "idle
time scan" hang DURING an Outlook send/receive that was apparrently hung due
to Norton.

I have attempted several published fixes including Scanpst,
DeleteOutlookProfiles, running Outlook with /safe switch (same error),
uninstall/reinstall Outlook, turning Norton 2009 off during my process, etc.

On reinstall (after running DeleteOutlookProfiles), I create a new profile
and a new Outlook PST ... still receive the "cannot open..." error.

Any further suggestions - hopefully short of resorting to my recovery image?

Thanks,

Cliff

Are you sure your PST file wasn't oversized? If not ,i think you can
try Advanced Outlook Repair to solve the problem, by either converting
it into Outlook 2003 format ( http://www.datanumen.com/aor/problem...rt-2gb-pst.htm
), or splitting it into smaller pieces ( http://www.datanumen.com/aor/problems/split-2gb-pst.htm
)

http://www.datanumen.com/aor/ contains the detailed information about
Advanced Outlook Repair.

And you can also download a free demo version at http://www.datanumen.com/aor/aor.exe

W.Dong

Hi ChadH

I'll raise my glass to you next time I'm in the pub. They should create a
MSKB article with this solution

many thanks
Michael

This fixed my problem without any other action required!

Thanks you.

"Jules" wrote:

Just wanted to say:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

"Tom Jelen tomjelenlandscapes@comcast." wrote:

Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

appears to have resolved the problem.
start paste and hit run

but when trying to open a new mail I now get the message that I do not have
the appropriate premission to do that operation

wow what idiot wrote the office program? its just a fancy way to send
email made difficult and I was stupid enough to purchase this program .
next time Im pruchasing an apple and throwning all this microsoft crap away
I have had it

Kudos to Dan Thomas. I, like many others it seems, ran into this same
problem "could not display Outlook window" and after various searches and
recommendations from others (to no avail) this one absolutely works. Thanks
again Dan.

"Dan Thomas" wrote:

Ok mate, I got it going...

Now this is a bit vague because I was trying to reset everything but the
process was:

1) Removed my ost (yes I'm using exchange) - well I renamed it
outlook.ost.old in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and
renamed my archive folder in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
2) Uninstalled all addins
3) found this page and started playing with no success
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...6865&p=1&ntf=1

... UNTIL I ran Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

Clears and regenerates the Navigation Pane for the current profile. Removes
all Shortcuts and Favorite Folders. Has the same effect as deleting
profilename.xml in your user directory.

After this, I was able to get back into outlook!

The only clue as to why this may have worked is because when I got the
problem, another XML file on my machine (required to run one of my
development programs) had also become corrupted - I can only guess that
perhaps the profilename.xml possibly became corrupted in a similar kind of
way...

I'm really sorry I cannot give any more detail: I've been effectively
button-mashing (ok, running varous command-line switches mainly to do with
"cleaning" stuff) but it only worked once this switch was executed.

It may be a combination or specifically this switch, but I hope this
provides a little bit of a clue...

-- Dan

"CliffB" wrote:

Since I have a second machine, I have been living with the issue on my Vista
machine. I have not heard any 'fixes' although it seems there are more
reports like ours.

Resisting a complete rebuild ...

Cliff

"CliffB" wrote:

Unable to start Outlook; rcv dialog "Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook;
Cannot open the Outlook Window". Error occurred AFTER a Norton 2009 "idle
time scan" hang DURING an Outlook send/receive that was apparrently hung due
to Norton.

I have attempted several published fixes including Scanpst,
DeleteOutlookProfiles, running Outlook with /safe switch (same error),
uninstall/reinstall Outlook, turning Norton 2009 off during my process, etc.

On reinstall (after running DeleteOutlookProfiles), I create a new profile
and a new Outlook PST ... still receive the "cannot open..." error.

Any further suggestions - hopefully short of resorting to my recovery image?

Thanks,

Cliff

Brilliant,

Thanks for the Outlook.exe /resetnavpane command. I have uninstalled Office
2007and re-installed etc. with no luck. Just ran this and instantly
everything was working again.

Thankyou....

"graven" wrote:

This fixed my problem without any other action required!

Thanks you.

"Jules" wrote:

Just wanted to say:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

"Tom Jelen tomjelenlandscapes@comcast." wrote:

Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

appears to have resolved the problem.
start paste and hit run

but when trying to open a new mail I now get the message that I do not have
the appropriate premission to do that operation

wow what idiot wrote the office program? its just a fancy way to send
email made difficult and I was stupid enough to purchase this program .
next time Im pruchasing an apple and throwning all this microsoft crap away
I have had it

Thanks, fixed my problem quickly.

"Dan Thomas" wrote:

Ok mate, I got it going...

Now this is a bit vague because I was trying to reset everything but the
process was:

1) Removed my ost (yes I'm using exchange) - well I renamed it
outlook.ost.old in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook and
renamed my archive folder in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
2) Uninstalled all addins
3) found this page and started playing with no success
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...6865&p=1&ntf=1

... UNTIL I ran Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

Clears and regenerates the Navigation Pane for the current profile. Removes
all Shortcuts and Favorite Folders. Has the same effect as deleting
profilename.xml in your user directory.

After this, I was able to get back into outlook!

The only clue as to why this may have worked is because when I got the
problem, another XML file on my machine (required to run one of my
development programs) had also become corrupted - I can only guess that
perhaps the profilename.xml possibly became corrupted in a similar kind of
way...

I'm really sorry I cannot give any more detail: I've been effectively
button-mashing (ok, running varous command-line switches mainly to do with
"cleaning" stuff) but it only worked once this switch was executed.

It may be a combination or specifically this switch, but I hope this
provides a little bit of a clue...

-- Dan

"CliffB" wrote:

Since I have a second machine, I have been living with the issue on my Vista
machine. I have not heard any 'fixes' although it seems there are more
reports like ours.

Resisting a complete rebuild ...

Cliff

"CliffB" wrote:

Unable to start Outlook; rcv dialog "Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook;
Cannot open the Outlook Window". Error occurred AFTER a Norton 2009 "idle
time scan" hang DURING an Outlook send/receive that was apparrently hung due
to Norton.

I have attempted several published fixes including Scanpst,
DeleteOutlookProfiles, running Outlook with /safe switch (same error),
uninstall/reinstall Outlook, turning Norton 2009 off during my process, etc.

On reinstall (after running DeleteOutlookProfiles), I create a new profile
and a new Outlook PST ... still receive the "cannot open..." error.

Any further suggestions - hopefully short of resorting to my recovery image?

Thanks,

Cliff

I got Outlook to open after doing this, but it's as if it is a brand new
program. I lost 3 years of saved files. Is there a way to recover them?
Thanks,
Scott

"mcarnegie" wrote:

Brilliant,

Thanks for the Outlook.exe /resetnavpane command. I have uninstalled Office
2007and re-installed etc. with no luck. Just ran this and instantly
everything was working again.

Thankyou....

"graven" wrote:

This fixed my problem without any other action required!

Thanks you.

"Jules" wrote:

Just wanted to say:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

"Tom Jelen tomjelenlandscapes@comcast." wrote:

Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

appears to have resolved the problem.
start paste and hit run

but when trying to open a new mail I now get the message that I do not have
the appropriate premission to do that operation

wow what idiot wrote the office program? its just a fancy way to send
email made difficult and I was stupid enough to purchase this program .
next time Im pruchasing an apple and throwning all this microsoft crap away
I have had it