Office 2007- Outlook

[Mereilly]

Help!!!

I installed Office Enterprise 2007 on my computer 2 days ago. I was in the process of setting up my Outlook 2007 when my computer restarted...ehh old machine, so there's no telling. However now when I open outlook I receive the following error message "The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action." I click OK and a window pops up "MICROSOFT EXCHANGE". Problem is, I'm not using a microsoft exchange server to open the "new" outlook. I have a hotmail account... I need to set it up with hotmail not exchange. How do I get back to the set up? When I hit cancel, I get another email address "Cannot open your default e-mail folders. The file C:\Users\....\outlook.ost is not an offline folder file." If I hit OK the same error appears. There is not an option to change the the email setup.

Any assistance you can provide would be helpful!! I am desperate to set up my outlook...

[shrutipunj]

hi all! nice forum!!