Cannot open the Outlook window

Every so often Mircosoft Windows just really does have a momentary set back, a stutter a small stroke even. This morning was one of them.

The simply answer to what happened is outlook crashed out and lost its profile settings.

The simple answer to fix it is Google the error message.

You will be told on eof two three things:

• run system restore
• delete the registry key and reset the profile.
• Start->run..then type the following -> "Outlook.exe /resetnavpane"

My advise follow the third one its easiest and works.System restore may or may not work or be on depend son your settings. Deleting the registry key unless you think to back up teh profile files first will overwrite your data.

This leads on to general trouble shooting, I run Windows, Linux and osX at varying times of my week. I trouble shoot and support all of them. But the geenral rule if anything goes wrong is Google the error message.

I'll happily run a fix for clients, or advise best practice when some have found their own solutions.

But in general if something new appears It gets googled, a little reading of multiple answers and solutions looking for nearest operating system comparison and newest answers, the amount of times a patch has changed a solution is worth bearing in mind.

Anyway I ran teh third answer and up popped outlook all well and less a few emails.