Windows 7: Outlook 2003 will not open

I installed Office 2003 & all worked. Then I transfer-ed data & settings from my old XP computer using the Windows 7 start-up transfer program and now Outlook will not open. The message I get is:
"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open Outlook window. The set of folders could not be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this condition persist."

I tried re-installing Office 2003 & ran fix Office 2003 without any results. All other programs in Office work.

How do I correct this?

Olhupp

Welcome Olhupp...

Note

Quote:

Outlook 2003 {and Outlook 2007} have known compatibility issues with Windows 7 which can be fixed by installing their latest Service Packs

Read through the links below...

Outlook doesn’t start | HowTo-Outlook

Windows 7 Compatibility Problem W/ Outlook 2003 - Microsoft Answers

Outlook 2003 does not run in Windows 7 - Microsoft Answers

Outlook is looking for your .pst (data) file in the wrong place because it's different than Windows XP. It is located in C:\Users\Your User Name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook so you'll have to tell Outlook to look for it there.

Since I cannot start the program, how can I redirect to the ,pst file?

Olhupp...

Did you read through the links in Post 2?

Links to peruse in case you ever have problems with .pst file....

Repair Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost) - Outlook - Office.com

Outlook 2003 will not open

Repair Outlook data files (.pst and .ost) - Outlook - Office.com

Ok I have tried all the suggestions. I ran Scanpst.exe (no help), unchecked outlook properties compatibility mode, I uninstalled Office & re-installed office again and I still get the same message when trying to open outlook.

I found the Outlook.pst file located under local instead of roaming, copied it to roaming and outlook still has the same message. Under roaming the Outlook file was .NK2 before I added outlook.pst

Any other suggestion?

Microsoft Fix it Solution Center: troubleshooting software issues

OfficeForLawyers - Troubleshooting Outlook

If still no luck then Google your problem & do some research.
Good luck.

I found the solution. By going into the Control Panel, then Mail, and resetting the personal data file (.pst) security access to "All".

Thanks for your time.

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