Windows Vista has become one of the most welcomed and popular operation systems from Microsoft because of its amazing features and beautiful visual effects. With its updating day by day, finally there are several versions of Windows Vista, such as Enterprise, Business, Home Basic, Home Prenium, Vista Starter or Vista Ultimate. Each version has its own new and advanced functions.
Outlook is another popular program from Microsoft, which is the most common email tool in our daily life. While, when we are using Outlook to send or receive emails on Windows Vista computer, we may get error message as below:
Outlook error code 0×80040600
Why you get this error
The reason is very clear. As a matter of fact, we usually use Outlook to save all our valuable data, for example, contacts, emails, tasks, calendar entries, and even journals etc. in a single PST file. Once this PST file is corrupted, the error message mentioned above will appear and cause your outlook impossible to access data.
The following situations may cause the PST corrupted:
- The PST file is oversized
- Your computer has been attacked by virus
- Your Outlook application has been shut down inappropriately
- Your hard drive has been formatted
How to solve this error
In order to fix the error on Outlook from Windows Vista, please do steps below:
Step 1 Go to Start and open Control Panel
Step 2 Click User Account and Family Safety
Step 3 Press on Mail
Step 4 Choose data files
Step 5 And then select Personal Folder and click settings
Step 6 Type in the text in the Filename box and finally click OK button to finish the process
Step 7 Click Close twice to exit from the Window
While, the steps mentioned-above do not always work in every case. If this method cannot fix the error, you need to go for a third party Outlook PST repair software for Windows Vista.
