send/recieve error: inetcomm.dll

[Karen Smith]

When I click the send/recieve button in Outlook 2003 I receive the following error message:

"The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetcomm.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette."

I have been using Office 2003 for a year and a half with no problems until last week. So far I have:

1) restored to an earlier date (thinking an automatic update messed things up)
2) ran Detect & Repair
3) allowed automatic updates
4) ran SpySweeper and Norton Anti Virus
5) repaired/removed/reinstalled Outlook via Add/Remove Programs
6) reinstalled my entire Office 2003 program from the original disk
7) lots of rebooting

Still getting the error message. If I then click the arrow next to the send/recieve button the server times out.

Thanks to a previous post on this site I have successfully backed up my pst file.

My inetcomm.dll appears to be from 4/13/2005, 667KB. Have a second inetcomm(2).dll from my attempts at restoring to an earlier date.

What next?

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[Diane Poremsky]

what os are you using? it may mean a damaged tcp/ip stack or winsock.

then there is this very helpful article...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q817964





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[Karen Smith]

Here is the text of the error message:

The application or DLL C:\WINDOW\system32\inetcomm.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.

Thanks in advance.

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[Peter Foldes]

Karen

When was the last time you used Windows Update to install all upgrades that was posted there.