Naomi
Tried taht 'localhost' which did not alter the behaviour. I am running VFP9 as administrator but have not had a chance yet to ask on the Outlook forum.
Thanks for your help
Regards

>>Naomi
>>I am using NOD32 and disabled Outlook checking in it - but still the same error message.
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>Did you also try to add Localhost as a parameter as she also suggested? In addition you may try to ask your question to her directly in one of the forums (I saw the same advice given by her as in this thread on different forums as well).
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>BTW, the search in google by the Error number didn't seem to bring anything particularly related to Outlook.
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>>Regards
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>>>>Sergey
>>>>I also have started to get an error with
>>>>myemail = createobject("Outlook.Application")
>>>>It returns ole error 0x8008005
>>>>Vista and Office 2007
>>>>Hoping for a solution
>>>>regards
>>>
>>>Check reply from Outlook MVP Sue Mosher http://help.wugnet.com/office/Problem-create-mail-Vista-ftopict987564.html