{"id":1342,"date":"2009-04-23T09:05:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1342-cannot-open-the-outlook-window-what-sort-of-error-message-is-that.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T09:05:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T08:05:50","slug":"cannot-open-the-outlook-window-what-sort-of-error-message-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1342-cannot-open-the-outlook-window-what-sort-of-error-message-is-that.html","title":{"rendered":"Cannot open the Outlook window \u2013 what sort of error message is that?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m actually enjoying Outlook 2007 on my desktop, especially since applying the February patch<\/a>. It opens in a couple of seconds even from cold. I\u2019m running on Vista 64-bit, and not using cached Exchange mode.<\/p>\n

Until today, that is. Started Outlook and got this bewildering message:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This Microsoft article<\/a> suggested I might not have a default gateway. That was nonsense; so I opened Mail setup (I can get to this through the Properties of the Outlook shortcut), clicked Show Profiles, added a new profile and set the new one as default.<\/p>\n

Outlook works fine now. I\u2019m not impressed with the error message though.<\/p>\n

Update<\/h3>\n

While using a new profile works, there is an easier fix as noted in many of the comments to this post. You can run Outlook with the \/resetnavpane argument. Here\u2019s the step by step:<\/p>\n

1. Press Windows key and R together to open the Run dialog.<\/p>\n

2. In the Open field, type:<\/p>\n

outlook.exe \/resetnavpane<\/p>\n

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Note: there is a space between outlook.exe and \/resetnavpane. There are no other spaces in what you have to type.<\/p>\n

3. Click OK. Outlook should open. <\/p>\n

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I\u2019m actually enjoying Outlook 2007 on my desktop, especially since applying the February patch. It opens in a couple of seconds even from cold. I\u2019m running on Vista 64-bit, and not using cached Exchange mode. Until today, that is. Started Outlook and got this bewildering message: This Microsoft article suggested I might not have a … Continue reading Cannot open the Outlook window \u2013 what sort of error message is that?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}