Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Fix Outlook Problems By Uninstalling Corrupted Updates

Majority of people around the world have an email account from atleast one of the service providers. You can access the emails you receive in these accounts by launching an internet browser and then navigating to the web page of the service provider.

Now, what will you do if you have multiple email accounts from various service providers? It is certainly difficult to navigate to each of these webmail accounts and view the emails. However, if you have an email client program in your computer, you can configure all these email accounts in it and then view the emails from all these accounts by launching the program. This feature has made email clients popular among the users.

You can find numerous email clients in the world like Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, Entourage etc. All these email clients help users to configure their internet email addresses in them and download emails to the personal computers. Among these email client programs, Outlook has the most number of users.

Microsoft has released several versions of the program and the latest version is Outlook 2013. However, still many people use the older versions of the program like Outlook 2003. Microsoft releases regular updates for this email client program. Even though the updates are intended to fix Outlook problems and enhance its performance, it can sometimes lead to numerous troubles.

Sometimes, your Outlook 2003 program may fail to send and receive emails or may show an error message with error codes 0x800421A or ox800421B. All these troubles occur due to some of the updates installed in the program. In this post, we will help you to remove these corrupted updates from the program.

Steps Involved
  • Select the option Start and then choose Control Panel.
  • Open Add or Remove Programs.
  • Mark the option Show Updates, which you will find on top of the window.
  • From the list of programs installed, choose and remove the following updates.
KB973515: Update for Outlook2003 Junk Filter OUTFLTR"

KB973705: "Update for Outlook2003 OUTLOOK"

KB953432: "Update for Outlook2003 OUTLOOK"

KB954478: "Update for Outlook2003 GDIPLUS"

It is advisable that you restart the computer after removing each update. If your Outlook program works fine after a particular update, you can find out the corrupted update and may not uninstall the remaining ones. If you have any queries regarding the steps mentioned above or any of the Outlook problems, you may contact our technical support team for assistance.

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