Outlook 2003 Crashed While Opening Long Email Message In Windows IE 8

MS Outlook is a great application which is used a lot by several people round the globe either for personal or official purpose. Using this tool people can easily manage and organize their emails, contacts, tasks, calendars, journals, notes and several other confidential data. All the data stored in Outlook application gets stored in a special file called PST file which acts as a store house of data for this application. But this PST file is very prone to corruption or damage which can lead to serious data loss situations which is very hard to resolve if the proper backup of the lost data is not available. In this circumstance the only tool that will help user to fix the PST corruption issue of Outlook 2003 is Outlook 2003 Repair software.

Let’s consider a situation where user has Windows Internet Explorer 8 and MS Outlook 2003 installed on a multiprocessor PC. Under this setup when he attempts to open a long email message with Outlook 2003 it simply crashes. Not only that if he attempts to export email message to an HTML file and then tries to open it, it also results to Outlook 2003 crash. After the crash the data stored in the PST file becomes inaccessible which is really very hard to get it back.

In order to resolve the issue first user need to know, what caused this crash. Actually Outlook 2003 uses Mshtml.dll component of Internet Explorer 8 to parse the email messages that arrives in its mailbox. If it contains many extended tags then Outlook 2003 crashes. In order to resolve this issue and to access the PST file user need to perform certain activities as mentioned below –

• To begin with first user need to use the inbuilt Scanpst.exe or Inbox Repair Tool to repair the corrupt PST file of Outlook 2003 and see if the issue persists.
• In case the tool fails to resolve the issue then try to restore the available backup of the PST file.
• Download supported hotfix from the Microsoft’s website and use it to correct the problem.

If the issue persists even after than the only way to resolve this issue is by using third party Outlook 2003 Repair software which will effectively scan all the components of Outlook including PST file and make the data accessible to the users. So, just use this tool and get rid of Outlook 2003 crashing issue forever.