Contact Miscrosoft support for further assistance (0x80040154) Make sure that your disk is not full or that you are not out of memory. Some components are either missing or incorrectly configured. Both installations claimed to complete successfully.Īfter the installation (and the requisite reboot) Outlook Express failed to start, giving the following sequence of messages: Windows Update automatically added a prerequisite (Windows Address Book) to the installations to be performed. Perhaps unwisely I chose to do this installation. I ran Windows Update for the first time in ages and noticed that it identified Outlook Express v6 as being available for installation. Up until earlier today I was using Outlook Express v4 (4.01 I believe).