Try with a new profile created via the Mail icon in Control panel and set to
start with that profile. Hopefully, you will get past that first stage this
time.
"CB" <CB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I had an earlier version of Outlook (2003?) and yesterday upgraded to 2007.
> All went fine until 2007 came up and now gets stuck on the "Configuring
> Outlook" screen. Ran for about 9 hours and didn't move, but kept saying
> "Running" in Task Manager. I killed it and then restarted and ran in safe
> mode and all seemed oK until I couldn't send (could get email, but not
> send
> anything other than the Outlook test messages).
>
> Now, I exited & rebooted and tried again and back on the "Configuring
> Outlook" screen again not moving.
>
> Thanks for the assistance,
> CB