Outlook 2007 Calendar will not open in Windows 7

[Kevin Poole]

For no apparent reason, my Outlook 2007 calendar will no longer open.

Outlook itself opens fine, I can send and receive email and I can access my
contacts, tasks and notes. My forthcoming calendar appointments even show up
at the right hand side of my screen on my "To Do" bar. But when I try to
switch screens to the calendar, the program simply freezes without any
calendar information appearing. The "Calendar" button at the bottom right of
the screen highlights in orange, without the highlighting disappearing on the
"Mail" button (or "Contacts", etc button, whichever I am looking at when I
try to switch to Calendar.)

Any suggestions? I run Bitdefender Internet Security, and all critical
Windows 7 updates have been installed. This problem just cropped up out of
the blue today. I do not seem to have the "Scanpst.exe" file mentioned
somewhere in the online help, so I can't check the pst file for curruption;
Windows Office Diagnostics highlights no problems anywhere.
Help!!

 

[Kathleen Orland]

The file you're looking for, scanpst.exe is on your system but it's hidden.
In Windows Explorer check Show hidden files & folders, and also uncheck Hide
file extensions for known file types. Then simply search for scanpst.exe or
you can look in its default location:

C:\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

Make sure Outlook is closed when you use scanpst.exe.

 

[Kevin Poole]

Me again.

I have now found the "Scanpst.exe" file hidden on my 64 bit system and run
it. I have also tried the "outlook.exe /cleanreminders" run command to get
outlook to try to clean up the calendar, but the result is still the same.
Getting pretty desperate now....

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

For no apparent reason, my Outlook 2007 calendar will no longer open.

Outlook itself opens fine, I can send and receive email and I can access my
contacts, tasks and notes. My forthcoming calendar appointments even show
up
at the right hand side of my screen on my "To Do" bar. But when I try to
switch screens to the calendar, the program simply freezes without any
calendar information appearing. The "Calendar" button at the bottom right
of
the screen highlights in orange, without the highlighting disappearing on
the
"Mail" button (or "Contacts", etc button, whichever I am looking at when I
try to switch to Calendar.)

Any suggestions?

I'd try starting Outlook once with the /cleanviews command switch.