Good morning!
Well, after working on this problem for at least 12 hours, I devised a
solution, and wanted to share it so that others in the same boat do not have
to go through the frustration I did.
Based on what others posting in this thread mentioned about Add-Ins, I
decided to try to "give" Outlook 2003 the file it was looking for.
Therefore, I copied vpmsece4.dll from my Symantec AntiVirus directory, and I
pasted it into the directory of the user that uses Outlook for e-mail:
c:\Documents and Settings\<user directory>\Application Data\Microsoft\Add-Ins
I started up Outlook 2003 (I can't remember if I
rebooted...again...first...after 12 hours at this same problem, believe me I
lost count), and Outlook said that it had encountered a serious error. It
asked if I wanted to disable the Add-In, I said yes, and voila!
Hope this helps!
"Paul" wrote:
> Good afternoon, Darryl!
>
> I'm running Outlook 2003, and also getting this error message.
>
> - I did Help --> Detect and Repair as recommended in the error message, and
> that didn't work.
>
> - I deleted all extend.dats on the system and rebooted. That didn't work.
>
> - I changed the registry value referred to below to 2 from 9, deleted the
> extend.dats that resulted from testing, and rebooted. That didn't work.
>
> - I reloaded Office 2003 Pro. That didn't work. I then removed and then
> reloaded Office 2003 Pro. That didn't work, either. (I kept removing any
> new extend.dats and rebooting in between the tests). Interestingly, neither
> of these totally cleared out some of the saved values (specifically: I had
> several .psts opened and the new loads kept expecting to see these referenced
> .psts), so unless the shortcuts are saved in the main .pst, some of these
> saved values are being saved elsewhere.
>
> Anyway, none of this worked. HELP??? Any other thoughts? I'm pretty
> desperate!!!
>
>
> "Darryl A. J. Staflund" wrote:
>