Thanks for the solution Brian. restting the nav pane did the trick. I was
about to uninstall and reinstall Office.
I found out yesterday about the space when I tried to run outlook.exe /safe.
Overlooked the space the first time I tried. But still Outlook didn't
display in the 'safe' mode.
Thanks again for the help. Much appreciated.

Bob

"Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

"lesperance" wrote in message
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Outlook 7 installed with SP2.
Recently upgraded Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Outlook 2007 ran without incident.
Installed Microsoft's Security Essentials. Office 2007 ran.
Several days ago I ran Outlook with no problem. Fifteen minutes later I
tried to run Outlook and the opening window flashed on the screen and
disappeared and the error message of
"Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window".
Ran the Diagnostic Tools with no result.

Start Outlook once with the /resetnavpane command switch.
StartSearchoutlook.exe /resetnavpane . Be sure to include the space.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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