Thanks for the idea. Tried it but unfortunately, I still have the same
problem. I am running Office 2003 on XP Professional. All components are up
to date with patches etc.

"Roady [MVP]" wrote:

Version of Outlook, type of Account, tried starting Outlook in safe mode
already?
Start- Run; "path to outlook.exe" /safe

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"GeeJay" wrote in message
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Every time I start Outlook I get a message "Fatal Error: Can not clean
temporary directory". I click OK and everything is OK except that any
changes to screen layout I make are not repeated at the next start up. It
is
just annoying and I would like to get rid of it. I have tried Scanpst but
that has not sorted the problem. Any idea?