Outlook 2003 always ask for Safe Mode

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Hello,

After a recent power outage and my XP system suddenly off ( I was
running Outlook 2003 ), my Outlook crashed and now always started with
Safe Mode, I tried many solutions by googling, no cure!

Do you have any idea how that Safe Mode warning actually comes from? Is
there any parameter inside Registry controlling it? or when Outlook open
and crash something, the Safe Mode box will be triggered?

Any idea will be highly appreciated.


Rgds, Dove

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Do you see any disabled items when you go to;
Help-> About-> Disabled Items...

If Outlook starts correctly in Safe Mode and shuts down correctly as well
(wait for the outlook.exe process to stop before restarting it), it should
start in Normal Mode again.

 

[VanguardLH]

Hello,

After a recent power outage and my XP system suddenly off ( I was
running Outlook 2003 ), my Outlook crashed and now always started with
Safe Mode, I tried many solutions by googling, no cure!

Do you have any idea how that Safe Mode warning actually comes from? Is
there any parameter inside Registry controlling it? or when Outlook open
and crash something, the Safe Mode box will be triggered?

Any idea will be highly appreciated.

Rgds, Dove

Load Outlook in its safe mode. Does that work? You didn't say so.

Safe mode eliminates loading of add-ons and COM plug-ins for Outlook.
If you can load Outlook okay in safe mode, disable all the add-ons (and
whatever COM plug-ins that might be listed but not all might be listed).
Does Outlook then start okay in normal mode? If not, you've eliminated
the add-ons as a source of the problem but not any COM plug-ins that
weren't listed in Outlook's config. The only way to get the unlisted
COM plug-ins out of the way is to go into Add/Remove Programs and
uninstall them.