So I got her a new small footprint computer from Cyberpower Inc., pretty basic configuration: Socket AM2 Athalon 64 X2 3800, 1GB, 80GB drive, DVD+-RW. Came in a cool square box about the size of four shoe boxes stacked 2x2. And (deep breath) I decided to take the plunge and get it with Windows Vista Home Premium preinstalled.
It arrived in a week and I set it up last weekend. Vista comes with a free 30 day trial of Office 2007, but I already owned Office 2003 standard and I'm not interested in upgrading. So I after stumbling around in Vista for a while, I managed to set it to classic mode so it looked like Windows XP and I could actually find what I was looking for, I (in this order):
1. Installed Office 2003 Standard (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
2. Uninstalled the Office 2007 Trial version
Then I tried to run Outlook 2003 so I could set up her email....
Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version.Doh!
Outlook won't even start. All I get it that error. I'll spare you the two or so hours of research, uninstalling, re-installing, repairing and other efforts and just give you the solution that worked for me:
- Locate the file MSMAPI32.DLL in Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033
- Rename the file to something like MSMAPI32.XXX or MSMAPI32.OLD
This doesn't address the further issue of setting up Outlook to work with her free Hotmail account. I know, I know, I've been trying to get her off Hotmail for years.
An aside - so far, Windows Vista has caused me nothing but headaches, mostly (I admit) because I have to fumble around to find things I know inside and out when it comes to XP or 2000. Would you believe some of the system files and folders don't even allow permissions to the Admin account?
If I had it to do over again, I would order the computer with XP Pro.
59 comments:
Thanks man, you just saved me probably hours of mucking around with Vista! :) Thanks!!!
Thank You Thank You Thank You! You saved me many endless hours and a potential new notebook thrown through the office window, shattering a wonderful potential career! The godforsaken Outlook 2007 is gone... and lo and behold - back to happy and stable 2003! Love you!!!
That's great, all the other directions posted were just for the mapi32.dll - this one worked!
Thank you very much. I agree with you about Vista OS. Too many errors and incompatibility issues.
Woo hoo! You are a legend! Man, I love the internet as a research tool, and it's people like you that make the effort to share their findings that make it work so well. Thank you, you have saved me a ton of time - I only hope I can return the favour someday
Pedrocelli
You are the man, thanks a lot. I have googling to find a seach for 4 hours. You are the best!!!!
Thanks a lot for the infos! Very useful. A note for those on 64 bits, the directory is:
Program Files (x86)\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033
I know it's obvious, but I missed that last night...
Yes! Ik helped me also starting op Outlook 2003 on a brand new laptop with Windows Vista Business.
Thanks!
Thanks so much, Outlook 2007 and the rest of Office 2007 is too unstable at the moment. The ribbon idea is not for me but my 70-odd year old relatives can use it much more efficiently. I'll probably start using it when it's a bit more stable as it has new and more efficient features from the off. I think you can turn the ribbon off and revert to the old style menus anyway. I wish it was easier to get rid of the Business Contact Manager toolbar but keep its functionality. Mini epic over. Thanks again!
this fix did not work for me.
i have Vista Business on a new Lenvo Thinpad T61, and Vista itself looks ok. Office 2003 word and excel installed OK, but even after I tried this fix and then did a restart, I still get the same error msg... any further help would be greatly appreciated. bobw
bobw here..oops, sorry...it really pays to carefully read the instructions! I changed the name of the wrong file,which of course did nothing, and then went back and changed the name of the correct(aka know as corrput) file, and this does indeed fix it! thanks so much. bobw
Thanks to your posting, I was able to resolve Outlook 2003 on my brand new Lenovo Thinkpad T61.
Why is this problem (that is so easily fixed) so damn hard to find a fix for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vista is evil...
Thanks for restoring my sanity
Thank you, thank you, thank you a 1000 time. You saved my time!
Works 100%.
wish i had found this earlier, just attempting to re-load the whole of Vista after bumbling around trying to get outlook 03 to work and making a pigs ear of it! leason learned, thanks for posting this you have helped where Microsoft have failed!
Thanks a lot. That fix is fantastic. I appreciate the help.
this was a GREAT help! i was about to give up on it!
Thank you so much. Your a legend!
Thanks man!!!!! It worked!!! Legend
Cheers, I just spent 2 hours reinstalling it, Maybe i should google first ask questions later in future. Good fix!!!
Thanx friend!!!!! It worked. I have spend a day trying to install then re-instal and so on.
The solution is so simple and effective!!
Take care!!!
Finally stumbled on this tip after hours of trying everything else incliuding numerous reinstalls and all other tips which did not mention this file - worked a dream - you are a star!
THANK YOU THANK YOU!
A HAPPY OUTLOOK 2003 USER
I did find another article that suggested that we rename mapi32.dll within the windows system32 folder but that didn't....your solution worked like a charm. Thanks man...your a champ
Thanks man...you deserve a medal.
I have a new XPS, and my outlook shuts down every few seconds and automatically restarts.... no idea what to do, anyne had that problem?
You just simply rock.
Sincerely,
A once pissed off Administrator.
Awesome fix, dude! Appreciate your info - MS Support, other forurms, etc just stumbled around in circles. Thanks!!
I'm glad someone finally gave me the correct file to rename. Thanks you did know what you were talking about...it now works fine. Outlook2003 is up and runing fine!!!
you do know what you are talking about.Renamed the correct file and bingo is working fine. Thanks so much as everywhere else I looked was telling me to rename the mapi32.dll file which of course didn't work. Once again thanks!!!
Thank you for taking the time to post your fix for this issue - it worked a treat (as others before me have already testified)!
Thanks for a very useful link. Only one thing - the mappi file I had to change was located in programfiles(86)\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033 not in programfiles\Common Files\System\MSMAPI\1033
strange I thought. Still without your guidance I would never have found it so many thanks from down under
Sandy - Australia
Thanks for the insight, just one thing to add - on making the change and opening outlook allow the windows installer to do its thing, otherwise it returns another error message. Got be foxed a couple of times,
Dude ... you ROCK!!!! Thank you sooooo much for the information ... I will do my hardest to nominate you for a Nobel Prize of some sort!!!!
Thank you so much for the fix. It did much me about a little bit , however it worked... Thank you once again
Thanks a lot! I was looking at the wrong mapi32.dll file as well.
Hi, thank you so much for sharing your experience, after two months of searching.....what can I say, I just did as you said and voila!! Thank you, thank you. I can now use my outlook again after 4 months of silence!!
Alas ... didn't help me. Lenovo 3000 N200,pre-installed Office 2007. I installed Office 2003 but Oulook doesn't run. Message: corrupted Mapi32.dll. I changed the one in 1033 but I still get the same error message. Every other Office program works, but Outlook refuses to run. So I changed the msmapi file in 1031, 1036 and 1043 to be on the safe side. IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!! I've spent hours on googling, installing, uninstalling and reinstalling. Can anyone help me?
after much searching on the net i finally came across the solution to mapi32.dll error
cant thank u enuff. outlook 2007 is now in the big software junk yard in the sky and outlook 2003 is just fine.
once again many thanks
but no thanks to microsoft.
Thanks! It worked. I spend half day reinstalling... and finally.
Once again Thanks Forum
You rock! Thanks for the fix. By the way, I had this problem on a Lenovo PC running Windows XP. It seems to be more of an issue with Office 2007 than with Vista.
You are an absolute star!!!! I had to prep a new laptop quickly for my boss going abroad later today and I would not have been able to complete this in time without your solution. Well Done!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, YOU SAVED ME HAVING TO UPGRADE TO 2007. LEGEND!
yeah!!!! yeah!!! and 1000 more yeah!!!
thx for this solution....
now I can sync my new phone with the old one :)
tubala
(hungary)
YAY!!! Many thanks from another poor user trying to cope with moving to a Vista platform! Thanks.
It worked! Thank you very much.
Thank you so much! You saved me a lot of time and all, considering I have a cold but they wanted me to fix this ~chieri
Hhhelllp! Name-changing msmapi32.dll to msmapi32.xx didn't help, and tho I'm the admin and sole user on this new Vista machine, it won't let me change the file permissions on mapi32.dll. Any ideas? Tx much.
Worked beautifully! Only pulled out SOME of my hair before I found your solution.
Thank you so much!
Thanks man, you just saved me probably hours of mucking around with Vista! :) Thanks!!!
I have spent two night removing reloading repairing when someone suggested a google search. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I didn't want office 2007, would luv it if microsoft could get their act together and just release something that works the way it should from the beginning.
thank you!..... makes me look GREAT to the boss :)
Man.. after four months.. I can finally stop using webmail and have my Outlook again!
!!!!Finally! It's fixed - and I can use Outlook again. After endless runarounds from all sorts of computer experts - a simple remedy. Thank you so much!!
Crowtrapper.
Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you!!!
mapi32.dll is corrupt or the wrong version
Thank you , thank you, thank you - it worked a treat!
My parents had a lot of problems some months ago.And I advised for them software-outlook 2000 fix,which solved the issues in seconds and free of charge.Application showed me estore data after internal software errors, power failures or hard drive crashes.
I changed both the mapi and msmapi files to .old extension and THEN it popped...!!!
Truly amazing. Both were files for Windows NT by the way.
Saved $49.00 US by NOT having to pay Microsoft tech support. All their help is from Phillipines which explains where all the jobs are....
I suppose that I have enough wide knowledge about MS Outlook. But I was wrong and I was forced to use the determination for my issue at the Inet. As luck would have it I was succeeding and found out an one utility. It was effective and I thing might be as much useful - microsoft convert ost to pst.
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