Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.

Kirby Witmer — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:12:21 +0000

I had a customer call me to say that his computer seemed to freeze for him, so he did a hard restart on it. Once it booted back up, Microsoft Outlook 2010 would not start but give the following error message.

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.

Starting Outlook in safe mode didn’t work either. Fortunately the fix is really easy.

If you are on Windows 7 simply type the following command in the search or run box.

Outlook.exe /ResetNavPane

Bingo. You will be up and running again!

Thanks to itswapshop.com for the tip.

Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.

Kirby Witmer — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:27:48 +0000

I have a customer who is getting the following error message in Office 2013. “Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.”

The problem is when the Update Now button is clicked, you get a notice saying you’re up to date! Restarting the program will bring the error message back again.

I haven’t found a good solution for this problem yet, any ideas?

I’ll update this post if I find something.

office – Kirb.IT

Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.

Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.