Solved Outlook 2010 won't open

[DDPCPA]

I have Outlook 2010 32 bit running on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Outlook 2010 stopped opening the other day. I click on the icon to initiate and it goes through its normal start up process but the window will not display. I get an icon that sits on the tool bar and if I right click I can open and perform all other tasks such as create new email, appt etc. There are no error messages. I am able to start it in safe mode. I have tried the resetnavpane, uninstall and reinstall and regedit to delete the profiles as seen in other posts. Nothing has worked so far. Any suggestions?

 

[Irene]

Hello DDPCPA, welcome to the forum.

Have you tried a repair?:
Repair or remove Office 2010 - Outlook - Office.com
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Repair your Office 2010 programs

Repair your Office 2010 programs by doing the following:

1. Click Start, then click Control Panel.
2. Click Programs and Features.
3. Click the Office 2010 program that you want to repair, then click Change.
4. Click Repair, then click Continue. You might need to restart your computer after the repair is complete.

I hope that helps.

 

[DDPCPA]

Yes. Repair is the first thing I tried.

 

[hikingbaby]

Outlook 2010 Repair

http://www.outlook2010repair.nethi pal!!

may be the outlook version you are using have some compatibility issues with the windows, you should first try to run your outlook in some other operating system and check if it works there. if it doesn't then scan it with scanpst.exe to see if there is any damaged data etc.

if all these stuffs doesn't work, you can re-repair the outlook with third party Outlook 2010 repair software.

Good luck!!!!!!

 

[TorbjornK]

I have Outlook 2010 32 bit running on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Outlook 2010 stopped opening the other day. I click on the icon to initiate and it goes through its normal start up process but the window will not display. I get an icon that sits on the tool bar and if I right click I can open and perform all other tasks such as create new email, appt etc. There are no error messages. I am able to start it in safe mode. I have tried the resetnavpane, uninstall and reinstall and regedit to delete the profiles as seen in other posts. Nothing has worked so far. Any suggestions?

I have the same problem. I have

• Reinstalled the entire Office package several times - incl. shifted drive
• Repaired the Office installation several times
• Removed/uninstalled all Add Ins
• Deleted the profile in the registry

Mails can be created using the link, and by clicking the "new mail alert" I can even read and reply to e-mails. All other Office products works as a clock. But the Outlook Inbox is not showing/coming starting as described in the quote.

I am - however - able to open the inbox using SAFE mode (outlook.exe /safe in the CMD line) - but this is not a permanent solution.

Any ideas?

 

[Irene]

Take a look at the following post, it has worked for others:
http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/43837-outlook-2010-wont-open.html#post421149

Good luck!

 

[TorbjornK]

Take a look at the following post, it has worked for others:
http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/43837-outlook-2010-wont-open.html#post421149

Good luck!

Thank you for your rapid response. However, all proposals in the thread suggested is already tried without success before I posted my problem.

I am still running the SAFE mode.

 

[JMH]

Just a few random thoughts...

* If you right click the Outlook Icon > Run as Administrator...
Does Outlook now open / work as expected?


* If the problem doesn't appear when you're running in Safe Mode could it be a misbehaving add-in that's causing grief?
Navigate to Add-ins and see if there's anything there you can disable.
{ If you have an iTunes add-in disable it. It's really only useful if you're synchronizing Outlook to your iPhone or iPod.}


*

Is Outlook up-to-date?
Did Outlook ever work?
Does Outlook still work for other users on the computer?
Safe Mode
Disable add-ins
Use scanpst.exe to fix Outlook Data File errors
Recreate your mail profile
Run a Repair, Office Diagnostics or reinstall Office/Outlook

Outlook doesn’t start | HowTo-Outlook

 

[TorbjornK]

Thanks for all input. Outlook start working after installing a "bunch of" security updates. Since I did not think this was related, I did not notice which ones.

But - problem is fixed...

 

[JMH]

Good news indeed.
Thanks for reporting back.
Safe surfing.

 

[Fairway]

This is still not solved....

Win7 64-bit. Outlook 2010 32-bit. Everything fully updated.

Just the other day, suddenly I could not open the outlook 2010 screen anymore.

That is: outlook starts, it can hear it does sync e-mail and it gives me calendar notices, but it just doesnt open the screen to do anything.

Followed all suggestions put forward on different sites, just as TorbjornK did.

I also used OfficeIns to disable all outlook related office add-ins.

Nothing works though.

Only thing that does make it open the screen is: start with: outlook /safe. But that is a limited environment. What is causing this?

Any other suggestions other than reinstall Win7, which I totally dont intend to do?

 

[Irene]

Have you tried the Inbox Repair Tool?
Repair Outlook Data Files (.pst and .ost) - Outlook - Office.com

 

[Fairway]

Thanks for the suggestion, Irene.

The problem doesnt seem to be that I cannot open a data file.
I removed all but one. And that didnt change a thing.

And when I start outlook with 'outlook /safe', so in safe mode, I can work with all data files and I have with no problem with them or the window at all.

But as said, safe mode is limited in functionality and in safe mode all add-ins will not work, nor will a number setting changes be remembered after exiting outlook. Also some registry settings will not be loaded at the start: e.g. I use the ForcePSTPath setting in the registry; in safe mode outlook doesnt seem to input that parameter from the registry, so I need to do a lot of clicking to add data files from my alternate data folder location. But once done, these data files work fine in safe mode.

Which raises my suspicion that the issue I have may be caused by a registry problem. I did clean the registry with ccleaner to see if that would be a medicine, but no it was not what the docter ordered. I did also try to delete my profile in the registry. But that didnt change a thing, except that I had to rebuild my profile from scratch and reconnect all my data files: a nice wasted hour of my time . (would there be a way to backup a profile from outlook without backing up the whole registry?)

 

[Irene]

Perhaps this will help:
Backup Outlook settings | MSOutlook.info

 

[Fairway]

OK, nice tool to backup profile (and lots more). Though not freeware and not willing to put in the $$ for this.

Found a posting around a workable profile backup/restore on sevenforums:
http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-restore/179858-how-backup-outlook-profiles.html
That works great .

So with this its more comfortable to test removing accounts and datafiles. So removed all accounts but one and all data files. Created a new default data file and connected that to my account.
Also experimented deleting Outlook connectors under 'Programs and Features' in Control Panel.

But all to no avail: it didnt make any difference: I just dont get an Outlook window.
Nor is there an error msg or something else to understand what's going on.
Checked the event viewer, but no error/warning events logged by outlook.

Only starting in safe mode works. Very annoying.

 

[Irene]

Here is a free one:
Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 Backup

Also, I wondered if this post by Capt.Jack Sparrow might help the original problem:
http://www.sevenforums.com/microsoft-office/43837-outlook-2010-wont-open.html#post421149

 

[Fairway]

Yes, tried that. Tried all the things suggested in this thread of the forum.
Though to no avail.

 

[Icarules]

I have Outlook 2010 32 bit running on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. Outlook 2010 stopped opening the other day. I click on the icon to initiate and it goes through its normal start up process but the window will not display. I get an icon that sits on the tool bar and if I right click I can open and perform all other tasks such as create new email, appt etc. There are no error messages. I am able to start it in safe mode. I have tried the resetnavpane, uninstall and reinstall and regedit to delete the profiles as seen in other posts. Nothing has worked so far. Any suggestions?

I know this is an old thread, but I have exactly the same problem. Did anyone ever find a solution for this?

 

[Fairway]

The only comfort I can offer is that at some point in the past (about a half year after my resultless efforts) suddenly I got rid of this issue... without a conscious effort from my side.
So I cannot offer a single clue of what made it go away and how to get that done.
Maybe it was a certain MS update, maybe this update affected the issue because of the things I already did... Probably.
So try every trick offered here and elsewhere. And after that: be patient, it may resolve itself.
Windows 10 may be your solution in the end :huh:

 

[Icarules]

Thanks for your reply! I did find a trick that worked for me, so luckily I didn't have to wait half a year .

For anybody else who might stumble upon this thread, this resolved the issue for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFtBIp80FM

1. Right click on the Shortcut you use to launch Outlook 2010 and choose Properties.
2. On the Shortcut tab next to Run, change it from Normal window, to Maximized.
3. Click OK.
4. Launch Outlook normally using the shortcut you just edited. (If you edited the Start menu shortcut use ONLY it)
In my case Outlook launched fine, but maximized. Clicking the Restore button would send it irretrievably back to the Taskbar forcing me to force close.
5. With Outlook open and Maximized, right click in the Taskbar and choose Cascade Windows. Presto!
Now I could minimize, restore, maximize, restore all day long without trouble.
6. Final step is to right click on the previously edited Shortcut and change Run back to "Normal window".