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Mike B - 17 Dec 2007 23:21 GMT

I've using Outlook 2003 for a couple years, then all of a sudden two days ago
I get an error message "Cannot Start Microsoft Office Outlook. Unable to open
the Outlook window. The set of folders could not be opened. The Server is
not available. Contact your administator." Outlook starts to open, then I
get a dialog box with that message in it and Outlook shuts down. I'm not
really sure how to go about beginning to fix it. I did put in the Office
2003 CD and tried some kind of "Repair" option, but that did nothing.

Any immediate help would be much appreciated as I'm "locked" out of my email
at home. Thanks, Mike

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Ben M. Schorr, MVP - 18 Dec 2007 01:43 GMT

Do you have an Exchange Server? Is this home/personal mail or company mail?
Anything change on your system in the last two days, other than this? I
assume you've tried rebooting already?

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> I've using Outlook 2003 for a couple years, then all of a sudden two days
> ago
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> at home. Thanks, Mike

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Mike B - 18 Dec 2007 14:16 GMT

I'm using Outlook to access my comcast.net email account at home, so yes it's
a home/personal mail account. I don't think I have an Exchance Server...I
assume I'm going through one of the comcast servers, and no nothing was
intentially changed in the last couple days since it's been working, and yes
I've rebooted many times. The only thing that did happen was that the screen
started blinking uncontrolleably (assumed it just got locked up in some loop,
haven't even seen that before), so I had to shut down and restart. It was
shortly after that that I realized I had the Outlook problem, so then I
thought I might have gotten a virus or something, but I did a full system
scan with NIS and nothing was found and everything else seems to be working
fine. Does any of this help?

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> Do you have an Exchange Server? Is this home/personal mail or company mail?
> Anything change on your system in the last two days, other than this? I
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> > at home. Thanks, Mike

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Mike B - 20 Dec 2007 14:27 GMT

Anybody seen this problem that can help?? Thanks,

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> I'm using Outlook to access my comcast.net email account at home, so yes it's
> a home/personal mail account. I don't think I have an Exchance Server...I
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> > > at home. Thanks, Mike

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Gloria - 21 Dec 2007 20:34 GMT

If you find the answer...please let me know. As of this morning, I was not
able to send/receive messages from Outlook 2003. Now...I can't even open the
program. No error message...just doesn't open.

Thanks.

Gloria

> Anybody seen this problem that can help?? Thanks,
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Gloria - 22 Dec 2007 18:25 GMT

Finally! I did nothing more than reboot and it opens now. ??? Haven't a
clue what it was all about.

> If you find the answer...please let me know. As of this morning, I was not
> able to send/receive messages from Outlook 2003. Now...I can't even open the
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> > > > > at home. Thanks, Mike

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Brian Tillman - 22 Dec 2007 16:40 GMT

> Anybody seen this problem that can help?? Thanks,

What does Comcast say when you contact them?

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