Outlook 2003 windows 7 operation failed

I restarted the laptop to no effect. Running Outlook's repair tool fixed the problem for only a short time. But then I stopped the out of office reply, and all went back to normal. Later on I reactivated it out of curiosity, and Outlook still works fine. The user that I was working with was sending to multiple Distribution Lists that were created by her personally.

After all was said and done the user. I found this thread while searching for any information about the "The Operation Failed" error that I was getting when attempting to send an email attachment via Outlook using the Send To Mail Recipient function in Windows Explorer.

Several people here have identified this error with totally different causes in a variety of situations. Clearly the error message is totally useless since it does not provide any specific information not even one of MS's cryptic error codes.

In my case, it doesn't matter wether Outlook is open or not. Up until earlier this week, this would open Outlook if not already open and create a new email message with the files attached, ready for me to add the addresses and change the subject line from "Emailing: xxx" to something more useful. Suddenly this process started giving me the "The Operation Failed" error message almost every time.

The mailbox has exactly 3 Messages totalling about 3 MB in the Sent Items folder and all the other folders are empty. I am running Office under Windows 7.

This configuration has worked for nearly two years. I suspect that the last Windows Update is somehow responsible that is the only thing that has changed on this machine. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

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All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. Hello, my boss gets very upset when he is replying to an email and when he clicks on send button, all of the sudden he sees "the operation failed" error.

The only way to fix it is to close all outlook windows and restart it again, but as you can imagine, that's a pain when you have 8 emails opened. I've searched high and low for a fix, even installed SP3 which didnt do anything. Please let me know if you find a fix. Is Acrobat Pro installed? If so, disable the add-ins for it. Or, better yet, if you can uninstall Acrobat Pro and then recreate the Outlook and desktop profiles, this will verify whether Acrobat Pro is the culprit.

The reason I am asking you to rebuild the Outlook and desktop profiles after uninstalling Acrobat Pro is because in case Acrobat has made changes to either files in your profile or registry, recreating the profile from scratch will "undo" these changes allowing you to troubleshoot better. If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem.

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All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. Hello, my boss gets very upset when he is replying to an email and when he clicks on send button, all of the sudden he sees "the operation failed" error. This was a regular email, with no attachments So outlook basically was not functioning. Every email that I was trying to open gave me an error "cant open this item". Something has to do with Word maybe, since There is "Word" window on "the operation failed".

But I can't disable Word in the Options because he likes to reply in red font. I reinstalled Outlook, and the problem persists.

I recreated his profile and will see today if my boss gonna shoot me. I checked for spyware and fully patched this machine. If anything is unclear or if there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know. Best regards. William Zhou. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?

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