From Outlook 2003 to XP

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Tanya

I had Office 2003 installed on my machine. Excfel would not open so I
installed XP. Once that was done, I could not open my outlook.
I then removed the Office 2003 and tried again.
No luck.

I feel really stupid about this, and I dont know what to do, I cant open my
emails or even get into the program.

Please help!!!
 
Earlier versions of Outlook cannot read the outlook data files created by
2003, or 2007

You might have posted the question whilst you had a missbehaving Office 2003
installation, perhaps some one could have offered some help then

Uninstall all versions of Office listed in add/remove dialogue, reboot your
PC, clear your temp files. Then reinstall Office 2003, use MS Update to
install critical updates.
If still a problem come back with a detailed explanation of the problem
 
DL

Thank you for your speedy reply.
Much appreciated.
Please excuse my spelling, I have been trying to drown my IT sorrows at
dinner....

I run a small business from home and all my enrolment forms (Im a teacher)
and my life is on my machine.
If my father was sitting here right now, he would give me a swift one for
what im about to tell you.

I got this computer about 6 years ago with office already installed. If I
did recieve the disks, I have long lost them.

I started experiencing problems about 4 days ago when I could not get into
excel, It kept asking me for my original disks saying it couldnt find some
file, my entire database is on there and I paniced.

I could not find my original disks and someone told me to rather install a
different version of office. I found a pack of office XP at home (amongst all
the other clutter I have in my office) and installed it.
Excel worked! Imagine my delight!
I opened outlook...it told me that it could not open my default program.
Myheart sank...
I went into my settings and saw that it was defaulting to outlook express,
no matter how many time I tried to change the default, nothing worked.

In frustration, I went into add/remove programs and deleted Office 2003.
I re-started my machine, tried outlook again....once again i got the same
error message.

I then decied to to do a disk clean up and defrag (thinking that might help)
that only showed me how pitifull my hard drive space is (9% available)
Once again, outlook would not work.

At this point, I was ready to throw my computer out the window.
In my change defaults page, it kept on defaulting to outlook
express.....grrrrrrr
So....and this is the part when dad slaps me and calls me a fool.
I deleted outlook express.

I restarted again, and STILL it wont work.

Bugger, im thinking....what the hell do I do? Now I cant even get access to
outlook express.

Im thinking A.) I need a bigger hard drive and a hell of lot more ram, but
do I have to now go and buy a new version of office?
holy cow....I cant afford this....

Im sorry for the soppy story, you asked for detail (I somehow doubt this is
the detail you requested)

Any help would greatly appreciated. (I would even take a cyber slap if that
would help)

Thanks in advance

Tanya
 
Well if you dont have the disks, or a hidden partition on the PC with which
to recover to factory specs, your basically stuffed - you would need to buy
Office 2003, unless you know some kind sole who has either Outlook 2003 or
2007 who could convert your outlook data file to an earlier format that
OfficeXP can read
PS I hope you have all data backed up, your probably going to need to
 
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