What to do if Microsoft Outlook email client software stops working, with this error message “Outlook failed to start correctly. Do you want to start in Safe Mode?” you ask yourself. You will want to make sure to try rebooting your Microsoft Windows operating system based computer first. If you still have that problem then you can run a repair on Microsoft Office suite software.
You will want to click on your “Start” menu icon. Then you can select “Control Panel”. In "Control Panel" you will want to browse into “Add/Remove Programs”. In "Add Remove Programs" you will want to highlight then right click on the exact version of Microsoft Office office suite software that you have installed on your computer. You can select “Change”. Now you will want to then choose “Repair” in that Microsoft Office setup dialog box.
You can click on “Detect and Repair errors in my office installation”. Now then you need to click on “Install”. You just want to repair Microsoft Outlook email client software from that Microsoft Office suite software repair tool and not make any changes to any of your Microsoft Outlook email client software settings by installing Microsoft Office software again.
I have included a short tutorial from Microsoft support with similar instructions. You can skip to the “How to Repair or Reinstall Office Programs” section. You will want to perform a Microsoft Office Repair on your version of Microsoft Office suite software installed on your computer.
Just to let you know that "Add Remove Programs" is now called “Programs and Features” in Microsoft Windows seven, eight, ten, and eleven operating systems. Although, that section is still under Microsoft Windows operating system "Control Panel". You may need to click on a previous version of Microsoft Office software suite in order to view the repair option instructions.
Also, you will want to choose the exact version of Microsoft Office software program suite that you have currently installed on your computer. The instructions to perform a repair install might be different. A Microsoft Office repair install is preferred over a complete removal and reinstall of that software suite program.
If a repair install or repair of Microsoft Office Outlook software does not fix your issue, you could then try performing a Microsoft Windows operating system restore. You can perform a system restore which should restore your computer back to before your issue with Microsoft Outlook email client software began. You will want to restore your Microsoft Windows operating system computer back to before you had this problem.
You will want to click on the Microsoft Windows seven operating system "Start" menu button. Then you can select "All Programs". You will want to then choose "Accessories".
Now select that "System Tools" program group. You will need to click the "System Restore" program icon. Then you can click on "Next".
In the next window you will be able to select your restore point. What you want to choose here is a date and time before you were having your current problem. You will want to choose a restore point back to before you were having your current Microsoft Outlook email client software issue.
Now you can click Next. In order to begin system restore, you select Finish. Your computer will have to reboot in order to restore it back to the restore point that you picked.
Hopefully, your Microsoft Outlook email client software problem has been resolved. If it is still not resolved or you could not find a restore point back to before this problem began, then you might need to perform a fresh install of Microsoft Office software suite. You would want to remove Microsoft Office and then install that software suite again.