Does this happen even if you start Outlook in Safe Mode? (hold down CTRL
while you click the icon) See if this helps:
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook/tsol.htm#safe

Do you have Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 installed?
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en)

If you click Start | Run and type "Outlook" then press enter does the same
thing happen?

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.html
Author: The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/ol4law-amazon

"BrettR" wrote in message
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I have a machine that has Office 2007 and I just installed Windows 7 on
the
same system. Now, whenever I start Outlook, it defaults to offline mode.
Every discussion I can find on this subject deals with the emails having
been
setup in Exchange mode, but the emails are all using POP3. I can manually
turn on online mode, but after restarting Outlook - it always begins in
offline. I need Outlook to start in online.