Solved Outlook 2003 will not open

[Olhupp]

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

 

[JMH]

Welcome Olhupp...

Note

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

 

[roban]

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.

 

[Olhupp]

Outlook star up problem

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

 

[JMH]

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/195343-outlook-2003-will-not-open.html

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

 

[Olhupp]

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?

 

[JMH]

Microsoft Fix it Solution Center: troubleshooting software issues

OfficeForLawyers - Troubleshooting Outlook

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

 

[Olhupp]

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.

 

[JMH]

Thanks for reporting back.
Great news.
Well done.
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