Try repairing your installation. It sounds like it is corrupt.
Bill R
"ariel sante" <ariel sante@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am trying to run outlook 2003 for the first time after upgrade from
>outlook
> 2000 and outlook 2003 crashes at startup. It gives me an error message to
> go
> to mail in control panel first to add a data file and when I click ok in
> this
> error messages, outlook 2003 closes completely. I did go to this "mail" in
> control panel and setup my mail server account however the option for data
> file is only a pre-defined one as the option at it gives me another error
> message that cannot locate the file business manager or so. What can I do?