Outlook 2002 won't stay open!!

[thurbie1823]

Hello
I have been having trouble with my Outlook 2002 program (it's part o
the MS Office XP Standard for Students & Teachers). When I open it, i
automatically closes about 10 seconds later. In the past few days, I ha
installed software for a Sharp Wizard organizer on the computer, whic
is supposed to download info from Outlook onto the organizer. Well, i
caused so many problems that I uninstalled it, and did a system restor
to a few days before I had the issue. I did Windows updates (includin
office updates) and I also just did a system Checkdisk and Defrag
everything went fine except that about 1GB of data didn't defragmen
(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 wa
for me to backup the addresses and emails (since it's so large, I can'
put it on a CD - that's only 700 MB). I have been thinking of buying
backup hard drive (at least 250 GB) from Iomega or Seagate but have no
gotten around to doing that yet

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

Any words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated!

Sincerely
Rache

 

[DL]

Try a Detect/Repair from the Office cd

 

[thurbie1823]

Hi there DL

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

Do you have any other suggestions?
Thanks so much
Rache

 

[DL]

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