Olaf,

Thanks for the advice. I downloaded every update and or service pack for
Office 2007 and/or Outlook 2007 from the MSN Office website. Nothing has
worked. I still get the same error message.

The Technician from Dell suggested that I reinstall the entire Vista
Business operating system back to the factory installation level. That
certainly seems a bit extreem as a way to get Office Outlook 2007 to
initialize and run.

Ed43
edmond43@msn. om



"Olaf" wrote:

> make sure you have all Updates for as well the OS plus Office 2007 SP1 and
> SQL server updates and SPs.
>
> BCM in Outlook is in fact only a front-end to an under-the-hood working SQL
> database.
>
> when Outlook 07 originally came out ther were lots of issues on Vista
> systems but MS has released a few important updates and after all it should
> work as expected.
>
> Best you use Microsoft Update ( every MS product )and not Windows Update (
> OS alone )( see settings in controlpanel -> Windows Updates ), this way all
> needed stuff should come right to your Desktop
>
>
>
> "Ed43" <Ed43@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:14D004DD-D105-42DE-B2C6-5643F965F3A6@microsoft.com...
> > Has anyone seen this error message when trying to 0pen Outlook 2007
> > "Business Contact Manager failed to initialize common language run time
> > error 0X80131700"
> >
> > I have tried to uninstall and reinstall Office 2007 and Business Contact
> > Manager at the direction of a Dell Technician all to no avail.
> >
> > Am running Vista Business operating system on a Dell Vostro 1500 and
> > Microsoft 2007 Small Business applications package
>
>