Thank-you Vlk! …for this little gem because it fixed my “Provider won’t start” problem.

I’m running:
OS: WIN98 SE
Mail client: OUTLOOK 2000 (v9.0.0.6627)
SpamFilter: SpamBully (v2.0.0.89)
avast! version: 4.5.523 official release

I never knew the “Add-In Manager” menu even existed in Outlook:

It all makes sense now. I remember seeing a little red flag in the blue avast! taskbar ball yesterday. Sometime during a reboot while Outlook was trying to startup I vaguely recall seeing a brief warning message saying something about “avast! plug-in” being unplugged, disconnected, or something, and another message about a possible MAPI32 file being overwritten and possibly having a compatibility error.

I tried several things including Repairing Outlook 2000, re-installing .523, and even installing avast! beta .531 to no avail! I’m also running SpamBully 2.0.0.89 and was getting ready to disable it when I found your post in the forum.

For me your instructions for going into OUTLOOK 2000’s “Add-In Manager” and placing a checkmark by “avast! 4” got everything going again.

Later I’ll have to light-up my XP w/SvcPk2 machine and see how that goes.

Many thanks!

t1k