Office 2003 and Win 7 x64

I bought a new laptop, ASUS K72F. It has a i3 processor, Windows 7 Home Premium (x64), 4GB RAM. I have installed Office 2003 Pro. Word and Excel run fine.

Outlook is causing me all sorts of headaches! After many attempts, install and uninstall (and even a couple of system restores!), I was able to get Outlook to finally run. I skipped the email set up, because in my previous attempts, that is where the program became unresponsive.

Once the program opened, I then tried to add an AOL email account. I entered all of the information (incoming, outgoing, user ID and password). It told me that my account had been successfully set up. Then, it attempted to get the AOL mail. It asks me for my user ID and password (already pre filled), I confirm and hit enter. The program IMMEDIATELY says (Not Responding) in the title bar. I have left it alone for 1/2 hour, and nothing. I CTL+ALT+DEL to end task. Then, try to run, again. Now, it says since it didn't run properly, do I want to run SAFE. I tell it yes, it gets to the account, I verify and hit enter, and it immediately becomes unresponsive. Close via task manager. Open again, it says I should "Repair". It goes through the repair process, tells me all OK. Restart, same problem. I cannot get the program to start, at all, since I built the account.

Please help!

 

I am running AVG.

I worked on the issue all day, and night. I believe that the issue was with the account settings. I ended up with a running Outlook. Once I had gotten all of the settings right (Password was the issue with AOL account). I now have 3 email accounts on the laptop, running Outlook.

What I can't understand is why Outlook would just stall if my settings weren't right. Most programs would run, but give an error message. I also don't understand why Thunderbird does such a better job of installing accounts. Adding an account to Thunderbird is nearly automatic. Outlook is a beast!

The only reason I am using Outlook at all (ready for this) is so when I add a contact, I can include a birthday and anniversary, AND when I enter these in the contact, Outlook automatically puts these on the Calendar with a reminder!

Thunderbird with Lightning doesn't do this. Zimbra Desktop doesn't do this. Any thoughts?

 

Well, now that youve put all that effort into it, and it's working, then you might as well stick with it, for the present at least. Personally though I think Outlook is an absolute monster, so I would convert all the accounts from POP to IMAP so I could use Thunderbird in parallel and enter all those birthdays as recurring events at my leisure. When that was finished I'd give Outlook the big boot

 

I thought I'd mention Google's free online calendar. With it, you can set up automatic email notifications to you of birthdays, etc. So, you could use it along with any email client. Perhaps I should also mention Google's gmail can be set up to work as POP or IMAP email.

 

This was a known issue with Outlook 2002 for which M$ said that for security reasons it would not issue any fix. We had to use a script to get it to work. Not heard of it with 2003 before though.