Hi Mary,
Programs should not have to be reinstalled after an upgrade. Selina's
problem is the location of the .pst file, they don't have the proper
permissions to access it. These need to be fixed, reinstalling the
application or importing the file will not be sufficient.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help -
www.rickrogers.org
"Mary" <Mary@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> You need to reinstall Office & Outlook, then open Outlook and use the
> menu:
> File, Open, Outlook Data file to open your pst file. You need to
> reinstall
> all your programs to work with Vista.
>
> "Selina" wrote:
>
>> After a vista home ultimate upgrade MS Outlook will not open, I receive
>> this
>> error...
>>
>> Cannot start Microsoft outlook. File access is denied..you do not have
>> permission required to access the file c:/yadda yaddda\outlook.pst
>>
>>