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Outlook 2003 “An OLE registration error occurred” Fix

Posted December 27, 2005 at 11:30 pm in Unsorted

Earlier today, I managed to find myself in a very annoying fight with Microsoft Outlook 2003. As I tried to reply to someone who sent me an email via the comment page, the program gave me the following error:

Microsoft Word is set to be your e-mail editor. However, Word is unavailable, not installed, or is not the same version as Outlook. The Outlook e-mail editor will be used instead. An OLE registration error occurred. The program is not correctly installed. Run setup again for the program.

As part of my normal problem solving routine, I simply did a Google search with the text of the error. Turns out, I’m not the only one with this problem. So I dove into these forum/newsgroup posts looking for something that will help me out on this. Many different Microsoft MVPs weighed in on the problem, each pointing to several Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on the subject. While these gave a few ideas such as using the detect and repair function and doing a complete reinstall, nothing was working (though, I didn’t mess with the reinstall). I was getting really annoyed. That’s when I took a minute to calm down and remembered that many of Outlook’s functions actually use Outlook Express’ core. Thinking I was on to something, I tried several fixes including trying to remove and reinstall OLE. Nothing. It didn’t do a damn thing.

At this point, I was very, very unhappy. I like the idea of using Word as my editor (because it can catch my many spelling mistakes..lol) and didn’t want to think of switching to another client. It was this moment of anger that I just said “screw it” and started tinkering. After a quick round of failures, I was down to my last shot. So I ran this from Start>Run.

regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll

Poof, problem solved. Somehow, OLE32.dll unregistered on my system and this was causing Outlook to freak out. After all that, it came down to such a simple fix. My joy at having resolved the issue totally outweighed my anger now and I could come here and fulfill my blogger obligation by whining about pointless, retarded crap. How cathartic.

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113 Comments

  1. 1 Omar Dec 27th, 2005 at 11:43 pm

    Wish i would have known about this before! I had something like this happen a few months back and the only way to fix it was to uninstall Office then reinstall it again. It’s such a waste of time.

    I don’t even use Outlook anymore, though. Why don’t you switch to something like Thunderbird? It blows Outlook out of the water and is much safer to run.

  2. 2 Juvenall Wilson Dec 28th, 2005 at 3:17 am

    Thunderbird is great if you have basic email needs, but it really can’t hold a candle to Outlook 2003. Since I manage some 15 different email accounts and get, I kid you not, hundreds of emails a day (not counting spam), I need something that’s going to give me the most power. Thunderbird simply doesn’t have what it takes yet.

    In time, I hope that changes. It would be great to see a free, open source program finally take on Microsoft in this department. However, I think there’s a long, long road ahead for anyone willing to take on the giant’s best program suite.

  3. 3 SteveOH Jan 1st, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    Thanks a lot for this, I’ve been pulling my hair out for 2 weeks now with Repair/Reinstall, etc (which did absolutely nothing). I registered the DLL, and it fixed in 10 seconds.

    Take care.

  4. 4 Juvenall Wilson Jan 1st, 2006 at 6:34 pm

    Hey SteveOH, I’m glad this was able to help you out!

  5. 5 Mary Jan 4th, 2006 at 6:41 pm

    Thank you so much…I was going crazy trying to fix this issue. Thanks again!!! =)

  6. 6 Juvenall Wilson Jan 5th, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    I know just where you’re coming from Mary! When I figured out how to solve this, I was minutes away from pulling my hair out…lol. So knowing this is helping others is a great ego boost. :D

  7. 7 Paul Art Jan 6th, 2006 at 5:53 am

    Thanks for the help.

    P.S. Weird but I didn’t get this error earlier.

  8. 8 Damond Taylor Feb 16th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

    This was a great help can’t tell you how frustrated i was…Thanks a million…

  9. 9 Juvenall Wilson Feb 17th, 2006 at 8:47 am

    It’s just awsome that so many people are finding this useful :D

  10. 10 phil May 10th, 2006 at 4:44 am

    thanks for your info this has really solved my problems

  11. 11 Maria May 25th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    Ran the regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll fix, Did not work for me…still having this problem. Any other suggestions?

  12. 12 Red Jul 23rd, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    You are the Bomb. I ran regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll and now all is fine. You made my day. Thanks so much.

  13. 13 youssef amin Oct 4th, 2006 at 4:59 am

    Thanks, it was very helpfull, and solve the problem.

  14. 14 David Oct 10th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    Your fix worked…I wish I had found it sooner. I couldn’t find any help from the Microsoft site.
    Thanks to you I still have some hair to pull out at a latter time.

  15. 15 Amadys Nov 14th, 2006 at 2:50 pm

    WOW !!!!
    You are the man…i’ve been fighting with this issue for a long time…Thanks for the data…

  16. 16 Juvenall Wilson Nov 25th, 2006 at 10:53 am

    I’m simply blown away by the number of people this is still helping. Needless to say, I’m thrilled I could help so many people with a simple blog post. Keep the comments coming!

  17. 17 Lyle Dec 9th, 2006 at 4:52 pm

    Yeah, totally thanks. :) First google search was your listing, and boom. it was done and fixed in nada time.

    have a good one

  18. 18 Gary Dec 28th, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    man, I wished it worked 100% of the time. Nothing seems to fix this issue. i only get it when I hi t the send rec button.

  19. 19 Jon Jan 2nd, 2007 at 1:03 pm

    Doh! Doesn’t work for me. Clicking Send/Receive still gives the error

  20. 20 Jon Jan 2nd, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Woah fixed it

    http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=552726&SiteID=17
    Try this

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)

    2. Send/Receive Settings

    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”

    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

  21. 21 Jason Anderson Jan 2nd, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Thank you very much for this fix, searched around for hours, no solution worked but this one, crazy thing that DLLs just come unregistered over the weekend! Thanks a million!!!

  22. 22 User-1 Jan 10th, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    Thanks a bunch … You guys made my day too …. just opend the Run and coppied “regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll” and enter …. all fixed …

    cheers

  23. 23 Bri Jan 16th, 2007 at 8:46 pm

    It didn’t work for me, which was a shame, but Jon’s fix above did.. so I’m a happy camper!

  24. 24 JK Jan 31st, 2007 at 12:26 am

    You’ve helped another person JW.

    Cheers!

  25. 25 Shane Feb 8th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks Jon your fix for the send rec button worked just fine!

  26. 26 Sup Mar 16th, 2007 at 2:37 am

    Thank you… Had to change the path to the file. On my computer there wasnt a windows folder, just WINNT. I shortened it to “regsvr32 ole32.dll”.

    Once again thanks.

  27. 27 Dang Mar 26th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Only Jon’s fix worked which is again

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)

    2. Send/Receive Settings

    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”

    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

  28. 28 Frank Mar 29th, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    Thanks for the fix!

  29. 29 Barb Apr 12th, 2007 at 8:04 am

    Unfortunately I am still getting the error. I am using Outlook 2003 and when I tried to open the place to uncheck ‘Make this Folder Available Offline’, it gave me the OLE error and would not display that form.

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  30. 30 Dan Apr 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm

    Thanks so much, this was really helpful for me. I really appreciate it.

  31. 31 matt May 25th, 2007 at 10:31 am

    Thanks this helped me as well! I took me 5 minutes to find all this info. Ran both the dll update, and had to do the pulldown in send and receive. It worked great!

  32. 32 Dan Y May 31st, 2007 at 5:01 pm

    Worked like a charm! Thanks! MS’s KB article didn’t even fix the solution, not even an uninstall/reinstall worked for me. Glad this post has a high Google ranking :)

  33. 33 Diana Jun 26th, 2007 at 8:33 am

    Well done this worked for me also!

  34. 34 Sport Jul 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    Another !Thanks! to you for your help

  35. 35 Joseph Jul 19th, 2007 at 5:50 am

    I cannot believe the regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll actually worked. I have never had a repair that fast before for a .dll error. From google to repair: 12 seconds!!! THANX!!!!!!

  36. 36 Joe Matthew Jul 19th, 2007 at 7:48 am

    Thank you for recommendation regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll. You should get Microsoft to add this to their support document or have your results come up before Microsoft. I think the latter would have been easier. Thank you for posting you solution.

  37. 37 John Richard Jul 20th, 2007 at 3:35 am

    Had the same issue with MS Office 2003 when clicking on Send / Receive…
    Restarting the dll dint work, but only Jon’s fix worked which is again

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

  38. 38 Nick Ingrao Jul 24th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks so much! I was at a huge loss!

    Fixed my problem in seconds!

  39. 39 Jay Jul 29th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks…wished I would haver read this first.

    Worked like a charm.

    peace,
    jay

  40. 40 john Aug 6th, 2007 at 12:06 pm

    I am very frustrated!

    I have been trying to fix this error. When I go to Start, Run and type in
    regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll I get the following message: LoadLibrary(”c:windows\system32\ole32.dll”)failed. GetLastError returns 0×00000485.

    I do not kow what to do. Any suggestions?

    Thanks John

  41. 41 DS Aug 15th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    This is the best advice I have had. Reinstalled Office 5 times now and still nothing. It is now fixed…less frustrated. cheers

  42. 42 Alex Aug 21st, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    GENIOUS! i also suffered from this problem and i even tried reinstalling, rebooting and the whole kit. I tried your idea and it fixed it

    Thanks!

  43. 43 George Aug 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm

    Thank you, you are a genius! I am sure that you have a very good idea how frustrating it is to have this problem and not be able to fix it. I have uninstalled, reinstalled several times and was ready to reformat my harddrive and start all over again. Your e-mail saved me an endless amount of grief.

    regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll worked like magic.

    Thanks a million!

  44. 44 Peter Sep 7th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

    Thank you.. Outlook stopped working correctly for no reason this morning. I searched for that error & you’re the 2nd site I looked at!

  45. 45 Byte Oct 1st, 2007 at 11:54 pm

    Jon’s solution worked the other solution (regsvr32) did not.

  46. 46 Aqualunger Oct 11th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    I had the same experience that Byte did (above).. The Regsvr32 solution didn’t fix it (alone) but after performing Jon’s solution next, it was fixed. Perhaps they need to be performed in that order -
    1) regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll

    then,

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

    Maybe they’re 2 different problems, but they’re both easy and harmless fixes anyway..

    Thanks for the Blog!

  47. 47 Ian Oct 17th, 2007 at 5:45 pm

    My joy at having resolved the issue totally outweighed my anger now and I could come here and fulfill my blogger obligation by whining about pointless, retarded crap. How cathartic.

    Classic!

    Thanks so much for the fix - one frustrated chappie now very happy!

  48. 48 T Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:09 am

    amazing! thanks for the quick fix and saving me hours of frustration.

  49. 49 Bill Nov 2nd, 2007 at 3:45 pm

    The check/uncheck solution worked like a charm! Easy solution to a very annoying error - thanks!

  50. 50 TJ_IN_AK Nov 2nd, 2007 at 7:12 pm

    Thank you!

    First time I’ve run into this problem. Happened after using trial version of Outlook 2007 then going back to Outlook 2003.

    Again Thank you for posting!

    TJ

  51. 51 hab Nov 9th, 2007 at 8:50 am

    Thank you and very well done for the find!!!

    Worked perfectly for me as well…

  52. 52 Kultrshok Nov 12th, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    Worked for me as well also, was tearing my hair out after multiple reinstalls/repairs.

  53. 53 Lumi Nov 28th, 2007 at 2:12 am

    Thanks guys. I looked like a genius when I ran this on a client’s notebook. Keep it up Genius

  54. 54 Brent Nov 28th, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    No other solutions worked, but Jon’s fixed worked for me!

    THANKS!!

  55. 55 Lumi Nov 29th, 2007 at 2:37 am

    Can you guys help. My out of Office assistance on Outlook does not want to disable. It is not listed under Tools as it shoulbe and I cannot stop it. Every time someone sends me and e-mail the get out of Office reply. Any ideas??

  56. 56 Todd Dec 3rd, 2007 at 2:35 am

    I’ve had this error once before, a long time ago. Forgot about the reg32 thing until I ran across it hear. It didn’t fix my prob this time, but Jon’s suggestion about the “check box” setting did work. It’s amazing what you can find on the Web!!

    Thanks to both of you for sharing your info and providing help to others. I couldn’t believe that this has been going on since 2005!!!

  57. 57 Mohanraj Dec 28th, 2007 at 7:20 am

    Hi,

    Me to had the same problem while clicking Send/Receive in outlook 2003. Here is the solution may help you out.

    Tools -> Option -> Mail Setup -> Send/Recive -> Edit -> Check “Include the selected account in this group” check box.

    Now you won’t fet that message

  58. 58 | Leendert van Achteren Dec 28th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    [...] I found the solution on the website of a guy named Juvenall Wilson. Thanks! Go to Start and press Run Paste the following code and press enter regsvr32 c:windowssystem32ole32.dll addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanachteren.net%2F2007%2F12%2F28%2F264%2F’; addthis_title = ”; addthis_pub = ”; [...]

  59. 59 eddy Jan 9th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

    Thanks helped me out no end, its been doing my head in for about a week, was about to upgrade to 2007

  60. 60 Zaid H. Safadi Jan 29th, 2008 at 4:53 am

    thank you so much man, this was the only and simplest fix to the problem.
    Just wonder why Microsoft don’t suggest this solution in its KB articles as a first method to fix the problem!

  61. 61 ettore Jan 30th, 2008 at 8:12 am

    Yes, the send & receive tick untick method worked fine for me… Thanks a lot

  62. 62 George Feb 13th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    You are the man!! This message has been driving me crazy!

  63. 63 Lennart Feb 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 am

    Sadly for me none of the above methods work :( anyone got another idea?

  64. 64 Bennett Young Feb 26th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

    Dude this worked first try for one of my clients, hooray for you and hooray for google for putting this at the top of the pile this solution made my day!

  65. 65 Chris Rowe Feb 28th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    Just wanted to add another big THANK YOU!. Your solution worked BAM! done.

    Rock on!

  66. 66 mehmet orman Mar 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am

    first it didn’t work for me but after i see this option below

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

    now it worked. Great! Thanks!

  67. 67 Mad3813 Mar 5th, 2008 at 10:14 am

    Done both the regsvr and pull down and fixed the problem, the .dll fix didn’t work alone though…

    THANK YOU!!

  68. 68 Ian Mar 13th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    Thanks a bazillion! You saved me another 1,000 hours of headaches!

  69. 69 Zorro Mar 14th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Hey guys, I tried both things (regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll and pull down trick) and still didn’t work. I had installed Office 2007 and uninstalled as it gave me problems, and after reinstalling 2003 I got this error. Any ideas?

  70. 70 keith Mar 20th, 2008 at 10:05 am

    Hi, I have the same issue, installed a trial of office 2007, found it impossible to remove, followed microsofts instructions then used a removal program. I then re-installed office 2003, and tough it sends and recieves ok, when I hit the send recieve button I get the errror message everyone else seems to get - HELP keith.blowes@sky.com

  71. 71 Phil Mar 24th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    Thanks Jon… This is still helping people out!

    Woah fixed it

    http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=552726&SiteID=17
    Try this

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)

    2. Send/Receive Settings

    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”

    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

  72. 72 Damilola Awogboro Mar 25th, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Jon’s solution worked perfectly for me. Thanks man!

  73. 73 zafar Mar 27th, 2008 at 4:19 am

    hey this solutin is not working for me but any way it is a great idea if u can find any other then plese let me know.

  74. 74 Jody Mar 28th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    This advice
    1) regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll

    then,

    1. Send/Receive pull-dpown menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

    worked perfectly! I was getting this after downgrading from 2007 to 2003. Thanks!

  75. 75 JJ Mar 31st, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    None of the above worked for me, I am using outlook 2007, went to add\remove programs, selected Office repair\change, selected all to run from my computer, not sure why some were not selected, regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll showed succeded, but outlook still did not work, add\remove, run all from my computer, fixed outlook for me.

  76. 76 Ayenachew Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:31 am

    WOW thx it helped me!

  77. 77 mike Apr 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    worked for me too, thanks!

  78. 78 Daniel Apr 21st, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    lol i might be a bit too late but thank you very much it just happened to me now after been using it for over 5 years. i was going crazy untill the check and unchek job made it all sweet again.
    thank you very much guys!

  79. 79 jagu Apr 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    it really works…….thanks for registry updates of ole32.dll

  80. 80 Santiago Perez Apr 22nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    Thanks a lot for the FIX.

    Greetings from Spain.

  81. 81 Jeff Apr 29th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    Wow. Almost 3 years from your original post, and you’ve just helped another! I’ve been working on this (sadly using the microsoft website help) for weeks, with no luck. Until now.

    THANK YOU!!!!

  82. 82 Mindaugas May 3rd, 2008 at 1:05 pm

    Thank you!

  83. 83 Ren May 15th, 2008 at 4:13 am

    I was in a simular boat - this trick worked for me too!!

    Thanks Mr Wilson. :)

  84. 84 Peregrine May 20th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    You just saved my bacon today. Thanks for this.

  85. 85 Enrique May 23rd, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    I only spent 30 minutes reinstalling Outlook until I decided to do a Google search and found your fix. THANK YOU!!!

  86. 86 thunderCR May 27th, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Well, neither of the solutions worked to me however, they lead me to find the solution to my issue. Actually I checked for the “Make This Folder Available Offline” option and couldn’t even find it; nevertheless, I went to “Send/receive settings” then to “Define send/receive groups”. Then having the first group name selected (All accounts), click on edit button and found that non of the settings were “ticked”. I just checked on the “Include the selected account in this group” and some setting on there and that was it :D Hope this helps anyone else too.

  87. 87 Mikaela May 30th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    THANK YOU!! I found your solution via Google. Registering it worked!

  88. 88 Hochimin Jun 5th, 2008 at 7:13 am

    HI

    I have also the same problem and the woked for me is

    Tools -> Option -> Mail Setup -> Send/Recive -> Edit -> Check “Include the selected account in this group” check box.

    perfect…
    Thank you Mohan raj..

  89. 89 nick Jun 18th, 2008 at 5:36 am

    I guess I have a slightly different issue with same message. When trying to send/receive i get this error. I still get it after registering the ole but outlook sends/receives ok.
    using windows xp with outlook 2003.i had office 2007 installed previously.

  90. 90 g Cohen Jul 7th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    Thank you VERY much for this, it was VERY helpfull and simple fix. Greatly appreciated.

  91. 91 Dolores Jul 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I have been having problems with this for months - reinstalls did not help… your fix was SO simple, and it worked. Thank you very much!

  92. 92 Aldy Jul 24th, 2008 at 8:04 am

    Thanks
    Your advice solve my problem only in a second.

  93. 93 charlie Aug 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Hat’s off to you for leaving this up for so long. I was about to turn my laptop into a Frisbee.

  94. 94 Pinstriper Aug 24th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    3 years later and this post is still solving problems.

    regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll

    Thank you so much. My dog thanks you too. He was looking good for a kicking if this didn’t work.

  95. 95 izontech Sep 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    Thank you so much. I spent two hours pulling my hair out. Then, I found you on Google as the # one search. You are #1 in my book…….Thank again. My poor dog thanks you too.

  96. 96 Brandon Sep 5th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    brilliant, thanks

  97. 97 Cubedude04 Sep 8th, 2008 at 11:08 pm

    Worked for me. Thanks again!

  98. 98 Eddie Sep 9th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    I spent hours on this problem until I saw your post. Thank you very much!

  99. 99 kzr15g Sep 10th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to fix this issue! Worked like a charm…..

  100. 100 John Sep 11th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Thanks from me also.

    The following steps solved my problem.

    1. Send/Receive pull-down menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again

    Cheers

  101. 101 Brad Sep 14th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Thanks yo, I was about to throw outlook out the window, and the rest of my computer with it.

  102. 102 Gazza Sep 15th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Hi,
    Thanks for both the regsvr32 and send/receive fixes, however neither worked for me…..
    If anyone has any ideas, all gratefully received.

  103. 103 Gazza Sep 15th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Just fixed it, after trying both the fixes as above, resorted to the detect and repair from within outlook itself…Help\detect and repair. However I also had an issue with windows installer, so re-registered msi.dll, as regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\msi.dll.
    Then detect and repair….and hey nonny nonny….it worked.
    Send and receive error gone…..

  104. 104 Dharshan Sep 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    hello,

    I’m really very thankful to you. i was having this problem since i started to work on outlook and many a times i tried and was unable to sort out.

    Thanks a ton for the solution, now it’s really working wonderfully.

    have a nice time…..

    —- Dharshan

  105. 105 Arshad Sep 25th, 2008 at 8:33 am

    Thanks to JOn and Omar for the fixes…Great Help!!!! :)

  106. 106 Ron Brown Sep 25th, 2008 at 9:22 am

    I had the same problem… runing Vista, intalled Office 07, uninstalled it. reinstalled 03. I went to the MS web site… they had instructions on how to create a new mail profile. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us –to make a long story short.. I discovered that when I uninstalled 07 it made my CorelWP my new defalt profile. I simply selected the Outlook mail profile as my default and it worked. IT WAS INCREDIBLY MUCH SIMPLER. Thought it may help.

  107. 107 zlatan24 Oct 2nd, 2008 at 5:42 am

    I heard about not bad application-fix my outlook, can be work with damage data in Microsoft Outlook, possible it may recover corrupted contacts with are sharing it, also do something read (detect and recover) data from the selected *.pst file, work with storing emails, business and personal contacts, as well as other important information, such as appointments, tasks and notes.

  108. 108 Wan Oct 7th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    THANK YOU.
    regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\ole32.dll fixed my problem.

  109. 109 Masterpat Oct 8th, 2008 at 4:20 am

    Works super perfect Thank you

  110. 110 Matt Oct 10th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    Jon - Uncheck and recheck….brilliant. Thanks for the help!

  111. 111 natalya Dell Oct 20th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    I had turned word off as the editor, but once I read this, changed the path to the relevant DLL (I searched for it first) I was able to run the command REGSVR as suggested.

    Thanks to all the commenters who posted their amendments to this as they were v useful.

  112. 112 shekhar Oct 27th, 2008 at 2:52 am

    i hv tried regsvr32 ole32.dll and pull down tech. but nothing works. my send/receive button is not there and not showing in my outlook. any suggestions…. please help me.

  113. 113 Mohamad Nov 5th, 2008 at 6:49 am

    Hi All,

    First i tried with registering :regsvr32 ole32.dll,didn’t wrk for me and these steps solved my problem.

    1. Send/Receive pull-down menu (same button which gives the error message)
    2. Send/Receive Settings
    3. Uncheck “Make This Folder Available Offline”
    4. Check “Make This Folder Available Offline” again.

    Thanks a lot……

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