Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 or simply SP3 is the latest service pack for MS Office suite. This contains many updates related to security and stability. This pack contains all the bug fixes that were not there in its earlier version.
After installing this service pack on the system which is running MS Outlook, you may feel this service pack as a sheer wastage when you encounter some of the error messages related to .msg files. MSG files in Outlook refer to the e-mail messages which have been saved as files. This error message is mentioned below:
“The operation failed due to a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, please reinstall.”
This particularly happens when you try to open the message by double clicking it. However when you use the MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) editor to know the properties of the affected .msg file, the message does not open with the following error message:
“MAPI_E_CORRUPT_DATA”
As the error message suggests that you need to reinstall the application, certain of the users go for it without determining the effects of it. In many of the cases when you reinstall Outlook on your system, the result comes out to be in the form of PST corruption which has no other alternative than PST repair.
So be calm and do not rush for such silly mistakes without knowing the actual reason. This may be due to some incorrect registry settings. So Microsoft has come up with the solution under the name of Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 3 Hotfix Package.
This Hotfix can be enabled on your system by some editing in the registry. After the application of the Hotfix, if the .msg file has too many numbers of attachements then you need to add AttachmentMax to the registry and RecipientMax in the case if the file has large number of recipients. But be careful at this point of time as a minor mistake in this editing can lead to further cases of PST corruption.
PST corruption in any case requires a tool which can repair Outlook PST. These tools come in the form of software which do a complete scan of the corrupted PST and hence can extract the valuable data out of it.
Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair Software is the most perfect PST repair utility which adopts the most influential scanning algorithms. This PST repair software is operable for all the file versions of Outlook including Outlook 98, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007.
You will discover the repaired PST in the original format and view. This is due to the fact that this PST repair software does not perform any write operation on the actual content of the affected PST files. This PST recovery software can repair all the Outlook objects like e-mail messages, appointments, contacts, draft, calendar and journal.
You need not to be technically savvy for using the software and the same can be checked through its free demo version available from Stellar’s website.
