Just a quick note for anyone with this issue – 5 of my clients were affected, the only things common among them were Exchange and Outlook 2003, and XP Pro.
Outlook would not start – alternating between memory errors and a debug screen pointing to perf.dll as a culprit.
System Restore would fix the issue – for 24 hours.
So I called Microsoft support this morning, and got a call back almost 4 hours later. An hour and 10 minutes later, we found a solution, but no reason for the problem:
Delete the HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Services\Outlook key, and voila. All fixed.
Definitely a bug in the March update. Microsoft is still to identify it as a broader issue, but with 5 clients at 4 locations all with the identical problem, I don’t need any more proof. Just glad it’s fixed.
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have the same problem, outlook 2003 crashes constantly at start uo. Followed the instructions to delete hklm\system\controlset001\services\outlook ….. did not fix the problem, outlook still crashes at start up
Check out CurrentControlSet\Servives or Controlset001\Services or Controlset002\services and delete the Outlook folder