setting up email account

[chris]

After re-installing Windows XP and Office XP on an older
machine Outlook will open, but will not allow me to set up
the user's email account. After "Tools-option-set up
email" or something similar the last click on set up email
results in a short error message with no code. Does anyone
have any advice?

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

After re-installing Windows XP and Office XP on an older machine
Outlook will open, but will not allow me to set up the user's email
account. After "Tools-option-set up email" or something similar the
last click on set up email results in a short error message with no
code. Does anyone have any advice?

Do you mean to say that the error message is blank or ?

Have you tried going to Control Panel |Add/Remove Programs | Microsoft
Office XP and having it do a Detect and Repair?

 

[Guest]

Thanks Ben. The problem appears to be with local
administrator permissions and the like as I FINALLY got
outlook going but am having trouble with other programs
(database ones mainly).