Can not open Outlook as admin, can open Outlook as other user

In Windows 7, I can not open Outlook 2003 when I am logged in as "administrator". I can open Outlook when logged in as "Guest", or any other user, though I don't see any of the "supposed to be imported email addresses" I should have when I migrated the files from Windows XP Pro to Win7 Pro.

My usual log in is "administrator" and I would like to keep it that way!

And I would like to find my email addresses!

Any ideas really appreciated.

Welcome to the forums Bill!

Do you get an error when you try to open the Application as an administrator?

Yes. Oultook 2003 begins to open and then I get a message that says something like,

"Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot
be opened. The server is not available. Contact your administrator if this
condition persists".

I can't open Outlook at all while logged in as admin.

I have been exploring

Control Panel/mail/User Accounts and Family Safety/ and then right click on "Mail"

Mail Setup -- Outlook
Data Files -

I see several listings,
Archive Folders
Personal Folders

when I click on "Settings" for "Personal Folders" I get an error message: 0x80040119

Try uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook. Im assuming that you were able to open it at one point and you tried to setup your email for use with it. Its possible that something didnt get configured properly.

Also did you upgrade from vista or do a fresh install?

Jesse,

I did try install/uninstall. Didn't help. I did a fresh install and upgraded from Win Xp pro to Win7 Pro.

There may be a glitch in my outlook.pst file. I can get a copy of my original Outlook.pst file from my XP drive, but, since i can't open Outlook from my admin position, I can't import the original Outlook.pst.

Also the "new" features in Win 7 will not allow even an admin into the Win 7 inner apps where I might transfer my old Oultook.pst file and place it where the new Outlook.PST file should be in Win 7 version of my Outlook 2003

Bill.

You shouldnt need to open outlook to import the original outlook.ost (the *.pst extension is for archive files, confirm which ext. it is)

Slave your XP Drive. Turn off UAC in Control Panel - User accounts. Open explorer and click on the Organize button in the top left corner. Folder and Search options - View Tab. Mark the Show hidden files and folders. Click OK.

Browse to your XP drive and open up \Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\

Copy the contents of that folder and browse to your Windows 7 Drive:
C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\

There should be a *.ost file in there. Paste the XP Outlook contents here.

I might be off on the paths a little bit since Im at work and I dont have Windows 7 or XP installed here, but you should be able to find what you need.

This is assuming that the original outlook.ost is not corrupted/damaged.

Jesse, I have searched everything on my drives and can not find an *.ost file. I did go in and check folder options to show hidden files.

Hmm....

When you first installed Microsoft Office and opened outlook were you able to open Outlook and setup your account?

Perhaps you need to rebuild.

Jesse,

I was never able to open Outlook as Admin. Though the Outlook.pst file is there in the Win7 Outlook (Still using 2003) and the same size as it was on my original Win XP Pro, I have been unable to open it. It almost feesl as though it is busy trying to do something left over from XP. This is an intuition and seems to have no basis otherwise.

After about four days work, I have gotten most of my programs to work in Win 7, but this was not easy. I had to begin to understand the new OS, and while it is very good and intuitive, it is certainly very different from XP

One of the new things I tried was to partition my new drive with 80 gb space for the Win7 OS, and the remainder of the drive for programs. However when I tried to use Easy Transfer, it filled up the rest of my 80gb drive, with data. I had to move this data to the second partition of my new drive.

I even tried Thunderbird email, to see if it would open and migrate the outlook.pst file into it. No.

I went to my wife's computer and moved a copy of her Oultllo.pst over to my computer. I renamed the backup to Outlook.pst, but could not open that with my computer.

When I open Outlook with a different user profile, it will open, but it will not show my old addresses.

I guess I could wpie everything and begin again, I have backed up my entire old WinXP drive, and I still have the drive with all that data and programs still on it, but this would be scary to me as I am afraid I might have some other failure.

It would seem that there is something very simple here. Some registry entry, something I could do and all would be well.

Right now I am using and old laptop for my email. Not fun, but maybe preferable to a completewipe and reinstallation of my Win`7.