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.

How To Perform Outlook Troubleshooting

Microsoft Outlook is a popular email client that is capable of managing your different email accounts with ease. Outlook avoids the need to specifically logging in to each of your different email accounts and instead downloads and lets you access your email messages by simply logging into your Outlook account.

Some Outlook troubleshooting tips

Though Outlook is renowned for its ease of use and features, it might sometimes come up with errors enough to perplex you. When you encounter problems while using Outlook, you need to perform certain troubleshooting steps to fix it. Keeping this in mind, Microsoft has included some Outlook repair tools that can help you fix the issue yourself.

Other than these built-in Outlook repair tools, you can also make use of the Windows repair utilities like the System Restore to resolve problems with Outlook. However, one cannot guarantee that performing the System Restore would successfully fix the Outlook issue, as it depends on the type of the issue.

For certain Outlook issues, performing the System Restore would be the easy fix. But at times, it can be an overkill. If your Outlook is behaving strangely, it is better to do some online research to get easy and useful tips on troubleshooting. You will get really useful tips from Microsoft Support online that can help fix your specific Outlook problem. Microsoft Support Center is a resource pool that contains valuable information about Outlook breakdowns and manual repairs.

Issues with Outlook Inbox and PST files can be fixed by using the built-in repair utility called the Inbox Repair tool (Scanpst.exe). There are also other repair tools like the Advanced Outlook Repair, Recovery Toolbox, Stellar Outlook PST Repair etc., which are available for a small amount of fee. These repair tools are used to fix specific Outlook problems.

Sometimes, even after using all these repair utilities, you might still have issues with using Outlook. If that is the case, it is advised to perform a reinstallation of Microsoft Outlook application on your computer. Before reinstalling Outlook, you need to backup your current Outlook data (.pst) files. Create regular backups, manually, of your Outlook .pst files so that you can restore emails, addresses, and calendars from these archives in the future. Once you have created the backups, you can go ahead and reinstall Outlook on your computer.

If you have any more Outlook problems, you can contact the Outlook support team and get further assistance.

More On Scheduling Outlook Errors

Microsoft Outlook cannot be considered as just an email client, it contains additional features like reminders, calendar, task lists, auto reply options etc. It is not only possible to schedule a meeting or an event, but also coordinate events and meetings with other people in the same Microsoft Exchange server. You may encounter errors labeled “Unable to connect to Server” while using the Microsoft Outlook program. Let us look into the details of these Outlook problems.

Server Connections

When Outlook is started for the first time, it automatically searches for an Exchange Server. Exchange server is the place where all the emails, events and users are stored permanently. If the Outlook program was successful in connecting with the server, it will connect and synchronize your data to a local storage area, including tasks, emails, contacts and meetings. If the Outlook program is unable to connect to the Exchange Server, it will work in offline mode with the data that is already available in your computer.
Lookups

Another very useful feature of the Outlook and Exchange is its ability to review other user’s schedules when setting up a meeting with them. This will be only possible when you are connected to the Exchange Server. If your computer is not connected to the network, or if there is a problem in the network between the server and your computer or if the Exchange Server is temporarily down, the Outlook program will not be able to look up other user’s calendars to see if they are available.
Drops in the Connection

You may be successful in establishing the connection with the Exchange Sever at times and then the connection may get interrupted. If you were trying to change an existing meeting schedule and were to send out an update to a participant, or if you were half way through making a meeting notice when the connection was interrupted, you will get an error message on the connection being lost and being unable to complete the scheduling. You need not worry about this, as you can save the meeting locally and send it at a later time when the connection is reestablished.
These are some of the basic ‘Unable to connect to Server’ errors that the Outlook program encounters. If you want to know more on these issues, you may visit the Outlook problems module of the Microsoft web site or you may contact Microsoft support for further assistance.