Outlook 2003 is the robust mail client application that is still popular when outlook 2007 and 2010 is arrived. It has less error and performs each task rapidly. However, It is known as robust and secure application still it raises error messages sometimes. “Unable to open your default email folders outlook 2003” or “The information store could not be opened” is such type of critical error message in outlook 2003 that creates various annoying problem with outlook. So, in order to work properly in outlook, you need to fix this problem quickly.

Usually at the time of start-up of Outlook you might get the following error message :

Reason for this error :

Most likely this error occurs because of corrupted outlook profile or missing outlook profile. Outlook stores all the information in the personal storage table that is also known as PST file. This file is very important for outlook and whenever outlook starts load this file to retrieve all the stored information like e-mails, scheduled, notes, contact info etc. If this file gets corrupted because of any reason then outlook can’t load this file and raises “Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The information store could not be opened. Would you like to open your default file system folder instead?” error message.

How to fix this error ?

In order to fix this error, you have to create new PST file and import all the information from the old PST file. Mostly this idea doesn’t work because your old corrupted PST file doesn’t allow accessing stored information. The best idea is repair damaged PST file with scanpst.exe or some other effective third party tool like PST Repair Tool. After fixing the corrupted PST file, you will be able to open outlook without getting “Unable to open your default email folders outlook 2003. The information store could not be opened” error message.

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