Outlook crashing with "Cannot start microsoft office outlook" msg

My outlook was crashing with "Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window." error message. I had no clue what went wrong, but I knew why it was barfing on me. I was in a hurry to force shutdown my laptop yesterday. And I forgot to close Outlook (I closed every other running applications) before that.

The solution is ---

Start->run..then type the following -> "Outlook.exe /resetnavpane"

It worked like a charm!