I just installed, uninstalled and re-installed Windows Live Messenger and the only way I can get into it is via hotmail, but then it only gives me a drop-down menu with only my on-line contacts showing, and not the rectangular window with my contact list, both on and off-line and many other capabilities.  So I tried going in via WLMsgr by going to start, and finding it in the list of programs in the main page.  When I did that I received the pop-up msg "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect.  Please see the application event log for more detail."

Ok, so....where do I find the app. event log and then what do I do with it?  My OS is Windows Vista Business.  Then, how do I reconfigure side-by-side? And finally, if I can rectify this problem/error will I be able to access WLMsgr, create a short-cut and have it the rectangular window with several tabs and options?

I used MSN Msgr quite some time ago, when it was easier (and I'm not a novice ;) ).

Thanks for any help you can give me.
I lost my very important long email befor saving an sending...I know dumB!! LOL. Im new at this an can wright it again,but if there is some way to retrieve it that would be GREAT. I tryed to get answers but they not working an as silly as it may sound i can't find the GO menu to click -folder list an then hit Navigation Pane????
I recently installed Outlook 2011 with Mountain Lion and I am having difficulty setting up my email account.  I select accounts from the tools menu and when i select e-mail account from the Add an Account pop up it just hangs.  Eventually I end up having to force quit in order to shut down Outlook.  Any suggestions ?
I'm facing two main problems on my Outlook 2011:

1) It doesn't allow me to create a meeting or an appointment. The button, on the top left side, appears disabled and also the option of creating a meeting on the menu bar. I can create a meeting on OWA, iCal and iPhone/iPad and it syncs well, but I still can't schedule from Outlook.

2) My Outlook is crashing very often and for many different reasons. Sometimes when I acces a folder, when I right-click in a specific message or folder, when I try to create a contact. I rebuilt the identities, following some instructions I found here at the forum and also following Microsoft's official response (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2360509), but the problems (1 and 2) continued the same.

I have MacBook Pro 13", with OS X Lion with all the latest updates. My Office is also updated, with the version 14.2.0 and the latest installed update 14.2.3.

I use Exchange and this is only the one account configured in Outlook. 

So, does anyone know or have a tip how to solve this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Márcio
I'm having a particular problem currently with Outlook 2011 for Mac.  It involves typing contractions starting with "I'" such as I've or I'm.

It appears that if I type these contractions in a new email that uses the default black color and no italics everything is fine.  BUT, if I use italics or color things malfunction.  How?  If I type "I've" the "v" becomes capitalized and suddenly everything grinds to a half.  If I type the "e" I then hear a bell, the menu in the email fades to gray and I cannot type anything further.  STRANGE!  Same if I type "I'm".  The "m" capitalizes but then the ability to type ends, the keyboard freezes so to speak and when I hit a key I simply hear a bell.  Once this problem arises going back to black font and no italics doesn't help.  The problem continues.  I can go to the capitalized letter, highlight it and then type it small and it will work.  BUT, I cannot type emails that way, stopping each time.

Any ideas as to the problem?  I installed Mountain Lion so I am guessing that did something although I do not know.

Thanks.
I want to but up a message for my vacation this week.  But the icon on the tools menu for "out of office" message is grayed out?

I have a hotmail account since 1998. Two days ago  when I started my hotmail sesion in the Hospital where I work, suddenly changed the configuration to Outlook, in a basic mobile version.

 

Other people in my work with Hotmail accounts haven't had the same problem, and they continue with the access to the hotmail page without problems. It's very difficult to work with the Outlook basic version, and I would like to know how could I get back my old hotmail main menu. Thanks.

I cannot link my new outlook.com account with Microsoft Outlook 2012.  I have never experienced these problems with my hotmail account, I simply downloaded the connecor and completed the add account sub menu.

 

I have tried to add a new account, using my new outlook.com details, all to no avail!

 

What do I do now?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

KM

My emails are taking taking hours at times to transmit from bt server to outlook for mac - until recently when I opened mac outlook I would get a message saying something like "getting list of messages from bt" and the emails would appear, but this message has now disappeared - have checked the "in" and out "accounts".  on the Tools menu but everything seems OK - am a complete IT amateur and in lay terms the mac outlook doesn't seem to be fetching the emails from the server when I open up.   However, I've noticed that if I have mac outlook open and a new email comes in, this will arrive Ok  with the outstanding back mail, but if no new mail comes in while I have outlook open, I'm not getting my outstanding messages from the server.  Can anyone explain in lay terms what might be wrong and advise what I might  do?  
many thanks
The "Return to inbox" button does not work after sending a message.  No LOADING indicator icon appears in lower left of page.  I have to use the Inbox  button in the left side menu to return to e-mails. This is in Firefox browser running XP.  What's the problem