One of my friends Gaurav Talreja, just called and as usual started complaining of a problem with his Outlook 2003 which i had never heard of…Why Me Lord Ganesha ?
Well, to get rid of his problem little Google Search solved the issue. Though the solution was withing Microsoft’s pages, it had to be dug deeper. For example, this article titled Wrong version of mapi32.dll did not.
The solution though simple, surprised me how Gaurav managed to get this. He mentioned he go this after installing Office 2003. I hysterically laughed and mentioned it is 2009. Have some respect for “we the programmers”.
This error normally occurs if you uninstall Office 2007 and install Office 2003 . To fix this follow the steps below.
- Go to Windows Explorer
- Navigate to the path “C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Msmapi\1033″
- Right click the file MSMapi32.dll and rename it to MSMapi32.dll.old or MSMapi32Old.dll.
- Start Outlook 2003
To get a better understanding you can visit this article from Microsoft titled “Error message when you try to start Outlook 2003: “MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version“.
