Outlook 2002 won't stay open!!

Hello,
I have been having trouble with my Outlook 2002 program (it's part of
the MS Office XP Standard for Students & Teachers). When I open it, it
automatically closes about 10 seconds later. In the past few days, I had
installed software for a Sharp Wizard organizer on the computer, which
is supposed to download info from Outlook onto the organizer. Well, it
caused so many problems that I uninstalled it, and did a system restore
to a few days before I had the issue. I did Windows updates (including
office updates) and I also just did a system Checkdisk and Defrag -
everything went fine except that about 1GB of data didn't defragment
(the Outlook.pst file).

So basically doing all of those steps still didn't solve the problem.
What do I need to do? Should I reinstall Outlook? What's the best way
for me to backup the addresses and emails (since it's so large, I can't
put it on a CD - that's only 700 MB). I have been thinking of buying a
backup hard drive (at least 250 GB) from Iomega or Seagate but have not
gotten around to doing that yet.

By the way, I have an HP Pavillon computer (about 4 years old) with
Windows XP Home edition, if that is of any help.

Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!!

Sincerely,
Rachel


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thurbie1823

Try a Detect/Repair from the Office cd

"thurbie1823" <thurbie1823@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
> I have been having trouble with my Outlook 2002 program (it's part of
> the MS Office XP Standard for Students & Teachers). When I open it, it
> automatically closes about 10 seconds later. In the past few days, I had
> installed software for a Sharp Wizard organizer on the computer, which
> is supposed to download info from Outlook onto the organizer. Well, it
> caused so many problems that I uninstalled it, and did a system restore
> to a few days before I had the issue. I did Windows updates (including
> office updates) and I also just did a system Checkdisk and Defrag -
> everything went fine except that about 1GB of data didn't defragment
> (the Outlook.pst file).
>
> So basically doing all of those steps still didn't solve the problem.
> What do I need to do? Should I reinstall Outlook? What's the best way
> for me to backup the addresses and emails (since it's so large, I can't
> put it on a CD - that's only 700 MB). I have been thinking of buying a
> backup hard drive (at least 250 GB) from Iomega or Seagate but have not
> gotten around to doing that yet.
>
> By the way, I have an HP Pavillon computer (about 4 years old) with
> Windows XP Home edition, if that is of any help.
>
> Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Sincerely,
> Rachel
>
>
> --
> thurbie1823

Hi there DL,

I just tried to do repair from the Office CD - I then restarted the
computer and tried to start Outlook again - it started up with needing
to 'fix' a few things for a few minutes (saying it was shut down
improperly)- then it closed on its own again

Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks so much,
Rachel


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thurbie1823

With OL closed, search for and run scanpst.exe on your outlook data file. If
it finds errors run it again.

If still no change try running outlook with the safe switch
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/commandlines.htm


"thurbie1823" <thurbie1823@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> Hi there DL,
>
> I just tried to do repair from the Office CD - I then restarted the
> computer and tried to start Outlook again - it started up with needing
> to 'fix' a few things for a few minutes (saying it was shut down
> improperly)- then it closed on its own again
>
> Do you have any other suggestions?
> Thanks so much,
> Rachel
>
>
> --
> thurbie1823