Outlook error on opening

[Pat W]

I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook: 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll" is not a valid Office Add-in.
I can then click on OK and Outlook will open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but search comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed at one
time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under Add-in
Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook will
| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but search
| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Pat W]

Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in" wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to delete/remove, tho.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Then you might want to close Outlook and find (if using 2000 or XP Windows,
enable searching hidden/system folders) extend.dat and rename it to .old.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in"
| wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM
| Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it
| disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to
| delete/remove, tho.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed
|| at one
|| time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under
|| Add-in
|| Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal
|| account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:
||
||| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
||| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
||| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
||| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook
||| will
||| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but search
||| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Pat W]

Again, I want to thank you - I did as you said and found the extend.dat file and renamed it to .old. Then I closed and rebooted - upon opening Outlook - same message came up. Sorry it didn't work - any other suggestions? Should I go back and change extend.old back to .dat?

Pat W

 

[Pat W]

Thank you for your reply. I did as you instructed and found the extend.dat file and changed it to .old. Then closed and rebooted my PC - when I opened Outlook the same message came up before it would open. Any other suggestions?
Should I go back and change extend.old to .dat? Again, thank you, Pat W

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Well, it can't hurt. First, try a new mail profile here: Control
Panel->Mail Icon->Show Profiles->New. Do not copy the old profile.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| Again, I want to thank you - I did as you said and found the
| extend.dat file and renamed it to .old. Then I closed and rebooted -
| upon opening Outlook - same message came up. Sorry it didn't work -
| any other suggestions? Should I go back and change extend.old back
| to .dat?
|
| Pat W
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Then you might want to close Outlook and find (if using 2000 or XP
|| Windows,
|| enable searching hidden/system folders) extend.dat and rename it to
|| .old.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal
|| account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:
||
||| Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in"
||| wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM
||| Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it
||| disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to
||| delete/remove, tho.
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed
|||| at one
|||| time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under
|||| Add-in
|||| Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to
|||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal
|||| account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W
|||| asked:
||||
||||| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
||||| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
||||| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
||||| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook
||||| will
||||| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but
||||| search
||||| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Pat W]

Hi, I did the new profile - with no change in the opening message. Everything else seems to be working fine - just this pre opening message. Thanks for the help. Pat W

Well, it can't hurt. First, try a new mail profile here: Control
Panel->Mail Icon->Show Profiles->New. Do not copy the old profile.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| Again, I want to thank you - I did as you said and found the
| extend.dat file and renamed it to .old. Then I closed and rebooted -
| upon opening Outlook - same message came up. Sorry it didn't work -
| any other suggestions? Should I go back and change extend.old back
| to .dat?
|
| Pat W
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Then you might want to close Outlook and find (if using 2000 or XP
|| Windows,
|| enable searching hidden/system folders) extend.dat and rename it to
|| .old.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal
|| account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:
||
||| Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in"
||| wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM
||| Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it
||| disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to
||| delete/remove, tho.
|||
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed
|||| at one
|||| time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under
|||| Add-in
|||| Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.
||||
|||| --ÂÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to
|||| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal
|||| account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W
|||| asked:
||||
||||| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
||||| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
||||| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
||||| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook
||||| will
||||| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but
||||| search
||||| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Paul]

I installed Office XP Professional. I can not get outlook to open, when I try
to open it I get this screen microsoft visualc++ Debug Library debug error
program C:\progra~1\mi1933~1\office 10\outlook.exeabnormal program
terminationand at the bottom abort, retry{to debug} ,and Ignor. All of these
will end the program. Thanks

Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in" wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to delete/remove, tho.

Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed at one
time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under Add-in
Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook will
| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but search
| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Pino]

Hey Pat,

I ran into a similar problem a couple days back and I was able to fix the
problem from the registry...Start,run and type in regedit...HKEY_CURRENT_USER
and find the path to outlook delete the add-in and this will get rid of the
error when you open Outlook

Thank you for your reply. I did as you instructed and found the extend.dat file and changed it to .old. Then closed and rebooted my PC - when I opened Outlook the same message came up before it would open. Any other suggestions?
Should I go back and change extend.old to .dat? Again, thank you, Pat W

Then you might want to close Outlook and find (if using 2000 or XP Windows,
enable searching hidden/system folders) extend.dat and rename it to .old.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:

| Thank you for your reply. When I did as you instructed the "Add in"
| wasn't listed under Add-in Manager. However, I then clicked on "COM
| Add-In" and the same message appeared and again I clicked OK and it
| disappeared. Nothing was listed under the "COM Add In" for me to
| delete/remove, tho.
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Did you have the Outlook Personal Folders Backup utility installed
|| at one
|| time? If yes, just go to Tools->Options-.Other->Advanced and under
|| Add-in
|| Manager, uncheck this from the addins list.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal
|| account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Pat W asked:
||
||| I'm receiving the following msg when I open Outlook:
||| 'C:\Documents&Settings|Application
||| data\microsoft\addins\C:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\addins\outbak.dll"
||| is not a valid Office Add-in. I can then click on OK and Outlook
||| will
||| open. I have attempted to locate this file to remove it, but search
||| comes up empty. Any suggestions will be appreciated.