When I try to open up Outlook 2007 it tries to connect an exchange server and
tells me Outlook must be online or connected to this task. Then it brings up
a dialog box to enter my mailbox domain & name and regardless what I put in
there, it says that c:\documents ... \Local Files\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost is not a valid offline folder file.

My question is how can I prevent this from automatically checking the
exchange server, because I just want a POP3 mail which it isnt giving me. I
have tried to uninstall office and when I reinstall it, it still
automatically checks.

Can someone please enlighten me on how I can prevent it from Outlook attempt
to auto configure. eg. I want to enter startup screen again.

Thanks, Josh

'Control Panel|Mail|Show Profiles', click the "Add" button to create a new
profile, and do NOT add the Exchange Server service to it. After testing
the new profile to make sure it works with your POP3 account, you can delete
the old one.

Hal
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Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"boogyman" wrote in message
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When I try to open up Outlook 2007 it tries to connect an exchange server
and
tells me Outlook must be online or connected to this task. Then it brings
up
a dialog box to enter my mailbox domain & name and regardless what I put
in
there, it says that c:\documents ... \Local Files\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost is not a valid offline folder file.

My question is how can I prevent this from automatically checking the
exchange server, because I just want a POP3 mail which it isnt giving me.
I
have tried to uninstall office and when I reinstall it, it still
automatically checks.

Can someone please enlighten me on how I can prevent it from Outlook
attempt
to auto configure. eg. I want to enter startup screen again.

Thanks, Josh

Thanks Alot



"Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]" wrote:

'Control Panel|Mail|Show Profiles', click the "Add" button to create a new
profile, and do NOT add the Exchange Server service to it. After testing
the new profile to make sure it works with your POP3 account, you can delete
the old one.

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com

"boogyman" wrote in message
...
When I try to open up Outlook 2007 it tries to connect an exchange server
and
tells me Outlook must be online or connected to this task. Then it brings
up
a dialog box to enter my mailbox domain & name and regardless what I put
in
there, it says that c:\documents ... \Local Files\Application
Data\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.ost is not a valid offline folder file.

My question is how can I prevent this from automatically checking the
exchange server, because I just want a POP3 mail which it isnt giving me.
I
have tried to uninstall office and when I reinstall it, it still
automatically checks.

Can someone please enlighten me on how I can prevent it from Outlook
attempt
to auto configure. eg. I want to enter startup screen again.

Thanks, Josh