Possibly wininet.dll problem or other instibility problem?

Hi,

I booted my laptop this evening, went to open outlook and it wouldnt open. It just keeps wanting to send an error report. This is the 'error signature' of the report:

Code:

AppName: outlook.exe      AppVer: 11.0.5510.0     AppStamp:3f1380f0
ModName: wininet.dll      ModVer: 6.0.2800.1468      ModStamp:412ab6ae
fDebug: 0       Offset: 00019064

I tried a PST scan to no avail and i created another pst file and i have replaced wininet.dll with a fresh one but nothing helped.

Other symptoms are MSN messenger wouldnt connect (but has since i replaced the dll) and the windows search causes an error in exploroer.exe.

Code:

AppName: explorer.exe	 AppVer: 6.0.2800.1106	 ModName: wininet.dll
ModVer: 6.0.2800.1468	 Offset: 00019064

Is there anything I can do to solve this messy conunderum?

Many thanks
fov

 

Chk this out
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com/problems/errors.htm

 

Hmmm, that pertains to outlook express.

Side note #90.

What OS are you running? What version of outlook are you running? Do you have all the service releases for this version? Is windows updated fully?

 

Thanks for the responce.
Im on xp home with sp1 which is upto date.
Outlook is 2003 (11.5608.5606)

Many thanks

 

Anyone?
I dont want to format but I could do with it working...

Cheers muchly

 

1. Navigate to %sysdir% (Most likely C:\Windows\System32).
2. Find wininet.dll and rename it to wininet.dl
3. Wait a few moments. A new, clean version of wininet.dll should appear.
4. Reboot the system and delete the wininet.dl file.

If this works it might be malware affecting the file, so I would go to the link below and follow the steps listed there.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407

Steve

 

Alas no.
I had aquired another wininet.dll but i tried that and it still doesnt work.

Anyone want to buy a laptop, no problems with it, honest

 

Right i think its to do with the pst file i have been using. Its at 400mb but ive had them at nearly 2 gig before i made them just personal folders but ive scaned it with scanpst.exe which found nothing.
Anyway the system is operating smooth at the moment as i have created a new mail profile and new pst file but i cant put the old one as a personal folder without it becomeing unstable again. I have an old copy of most of the emails in thunderbird but i would like to have my pst either as my main mail folder or even just as a personal folder so i can refer to old mail easily.
Anyone any ideas what i could try?

 

Well ive got it set up now and it seems stable.
What i did was to create a new mail profile with no accounts then load it up and import my old PST in file>import/export and it now running grand! (touch wood)

Cheers for your help
fov

 

Hope that's got it sorted fov. Good job.

Steve