How to fix MS-Office “Unable to Start Outlook after upgrading to Windows 10” error?
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MS-Outlook is a part
of the Office productivity suite as well as a personal information manager of
Microsoft Company. It is mainly used as an email app but other than that it is
used as a calendar, task manager, contact manager, web browsing, and many other
purposes.
You need to quite
aware that after upgrading to Windows 10, office setup Outlook 2013
might fail to open and you receive an error message –
“Can’t Start
MS-Outlook Can’t open the MS-Outlook window, or the set of folders can’t be
opened. File access got denied. You don’t have the permission to access the file-
C:\Users\ <username> \Documents\ Outlook Files\ filename.pst.”
This issue may arise,
but mostly this happens due to login issues like you have been asked to login
to Windows with the help of Microsoft Account (Outlook.com, Live, Hotmail, or
MSN) instead of the local account. But if the permission got changed and it
hadn’t been applied, properly.
Note- For launching any of the Office products
in your system, you need to visit Office.com/setup link.
Check out the steps
as given below to solve the above-mentioned issues for Office setup, to
regain the access to the PST file, and to reset the permission-
1.
Click on the ‘Start’ button.
2.
Select the ‘File Explorer’.
3.
Look for the
file location as mentioned in the error-
“C:\Users\<username>\Documents\
Outlook Files\filename.pst.”
4.
Select the file and click on the option
‘Properties’.
5.
Click on the ‘Security’ tab.
6.
Select the ‘Edit’ button.
7.
Click on the ‘User Account’.
8.
Select the ‘Full Control’ permission.
9.
Click on the option ‘Ok’ unless the entire dialog
box got closed.
10.
Repeat the
same steps for the ‘Administrators’ and ‘System’ to get full control
permissions.
11.
Reboot the system.
12.
Restart the
MS-Outlook.
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