MS Office update 2000 -> 2003 killed Outlook Express

[Greg Russell]

"- Bobb -" <bobb@noemail.123> wrote in message
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>
> If resolved - nevermind, but just saw this thread among my 1100 unreads
and
> didn't read every message in ths thread. If NOT resolved:

Is this a looooooooooooooong story, even though uneducated in its
fundamentals?

 

[PA Bear]

1. It's 2010, not 2004 or 2006.

2. If someone's installing KB911567 (Apr-06) in July 2010, something's
VERY wrong with their computer (and brain).

Microsoft Outlook updates change the default mail handler to Microsoft
Outlook
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13
Related: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933450


On Jun 16, 8:43 pm, John H Meyers <jhmey...@nomail.invalid> wrote:
<snip>
> > Identical previous reports:
>
> > "Install of Office 2003 Pro killed Outlook Express" [Jan. 2004]
> >http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/msg/1dc5...
>
> > "Can't create message in Outlook Express" [Feb. 2006]
> > (after upgrading MS Office from 2000 to 2003)
> >http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/55096/
>
> Now here's a curious coincidence:
>
> Quoting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917288
>
> Error message when you open the Windows Address Book or you open Outlook Express
> after you install cumulative security update 911567 (MS06-016)
>
> After you install cumulative security update 911567 for Outlook Express
> that is described in security bulletin MS06-016,
> you may experience the following symptoms when you try
> to open Outlook Express or the Windows Address Book:
>
> You may receive an error message that resembles the following:
>
> 'unable to open address book. Address book may not be installed correctly'
>
> When you open Outlook Express, you may be able to receive e-mail,
> but you cannot send e-mail or reply to e-mail.
>
> [End quote]
>
> Why, those are _exactly_ the same symptoms as in the problem
> which we have just experienced, and others have reported in the past.
>
> Could it be that the Office 2003 update happened to include
> essentially the same update as the above-referenced "security update"?
>
> The symptom is said to be potentially due to a previously undetected
> address book corruption, which the "security update" subsequently detects;
> might this be why Windows Live Mail also refuses to import the original address book?

 

[~*Laughingstar*~]

PA Bear,

can we open Outlook just to practice on it for the day when . . . ???


PA Bear wrote:
> 1. It's 2010, not 2004 or 2006.
>
> 2. If someone's installing KB911567 (Apr-06) in July 2010, something's
> VERY wrong with their computer (and brain).
>
> Microsoft Outlook updates change the default mail handler to Microsoft
> Outlook
> http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#13
> Related: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933450
>
>
> On Jun 16, 8:43 pm, John H Meyers <jhmey...@nomail.invalid> wrote:
> <snip>
>>> Identical previous reports:
>>
>>> "Install of Office 2003 Pro killed Outlook Express" [Jan. 2004]
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.setup/msg/1dc5...
>>
>>> "Can't create message in Outlook Express" [Feb. 2006]
>>> (after upgrading MS Office from 2000 to 2003)
>>> http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/55096/
>>
>> Now here's a curious coincidence:
>>
>> Quoting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917288
>>
>> Error message when you open the Windows Address Book or you open
>> Outlook Express after you install cumulative security update 911567
>> (MS06-016)
>>
>> After you install cumulative security update 911567 for Outlook
>> Express
>> that is described in security bulletin MS06-016,
>> you may experience the following symptoms when you try
>> to open Outlook Express or the Windows Address Book:
>>
>> You may receive an error message that resembles the following:
>>
>> 'unable to open address book. Address book may not be installed
>> correctly'
>>
>> When you open Outlook Express, you may be able to receive e-mail,
>> but you cannot send e-mail or reply to e-mail.
>>
>> [End quote]
>>
>> Why, those are _exactly_ the same symptoms as in the problem
>> which we have just experienced, and others have reported in the past.
>>
>> Could it be that the Office 2003 update happened to include
>> essentially the same update as the above-referenced "security
>> update"?
>>
>> The symptom is said to be potentially due to a previously undetected
>> address book corruption, which the "security update" subsequently
>> detects;
>> might this be why Windows Live Mail also refuses to import the
>> original address book?