Resolve “Cannot start Outlook “error message easily with minimal effort

There are certain situations in Outlook where you can face problems especially at the time of startup. In such cases, you are unable to access the files and can even face various error messages including “cannot start outlook” which appears at the time of Outlook startup. After getting this error, you are not allowed to start the Outlook application as well as access the default profile. Here, it becomes important to resolve this error immediately before it turns into serious system issues.

To demonstrate the above example, consider a situation where you are trying to start Outlook 2007 but instead of this, you are received with the following error message:

“Cannot start Micorosft Office outlook. cannot open the outlook window”

Cause:

There can be a number of probable reasons for the error such as:

Due to problems related with Outlook navigation pane

PST file corruption which can be due to many reasons like oversized PST, virus attack etc

Solution:

In order to fix cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook error, you can go through a number of solutions as per the causes:

Reset the Outlook navigation pane: For this, go to Start->Run -> type “outlook.exe /resetnavpane” in the textbox and press enter to restart Outlook after which you will find that the navigation pane is reset to its default settings.

In case of PST file corruption which is due to oversized PST, you need to break PST files into several usable partitions so that you can use them again. This can be done with the help of Split PST tool which is especially meant to divide the large sized files on the basis of various criterias like by date, folders, selected folders etc.