> I have recently migrated my Office 2000 to a new laptop from my old
> one
>
> I sucessfully imported my .pst files
Never import a PST. It's unnecessary and can lead to mail profile
corruption.
> I then updated my Office 2000 from the web.
> Now whenever I try to open Outlook I get the message "a program is
> trying to access e-mail addresses you have stored in outlook" - the
> prompt continuously flashes as it refreshes, trying to press any of
> the response icons does not work, then after about 10 seconds,
> Outlook closes. Therefore I no lonfer have any Outlook email from my
> laptop - am relying upon web based email - not good for my business
Did you install Outlook in Internet Mail Only mode or Corporate/Workgroup
mode?

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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]