Serious Outlook Bug - What a waste of a working day !

Yesterday I've been hit by a really nasty Outlook 2007 bug, for the first time in my life i nearly gave up on a bug and was on the edge of reinstalling my laptop.

For almost 24hr I had experienced outlook crashes two to five seconds after starting outlook up, for most of the day I was looking for the source of the problem but I just couldn't find it.

I did try to remove every outlook add-in, starting in outlook safe mode, exchanging pst's, diagnosing psts, diagnosing office suite. I even reinstalled office completely from scratch but nothing helped, the outlook continued to crash on my every 5 sec... this really made me crazy.

All i could get is the following event log msg:

"Faulting application OUTLOOK.EXE, version 12.0.4518.1014, time stamp 0x4542840f, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6001.17042, time stamp 0x47329a8e, exception code 0xc0000374, fault offset 0x000af2a0, process id 0x1744, application start time 0x01c8509d220a95db"

I was goggling like nuts for the solution but I just haven't found any way out of these crashes.

Finally after almost giving up I found some email about other person's prob. and I've decided to try apply the same solution:

I've opened regedit and navigated to the following key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

Then i've renamed msacm.voxacm160 to no.msacm.voxacm160

Strangely things went back to normal after reboot.

I hope this note will help someone with the same prob. to solve it in less time.