How to fix error 'Outlook Invalid XML the View Cannot be Loaded' ?

Outlook is one of the versatile application from the house of Microsoft and is thus preferably used by almost countless number of people. No doubt, the application is one of the most reliable one, still when it comes to issue, users do have to face one or the other out of its share of errors. This is accountable for number of reasons and users quite often get frustrated as a result of it, whereby it is required seeking for immediate help in the context. The issues may range from those related to installation to that of outlook invalid xml errors.

In Some of the situation, when opening Outlook you may all of a sudden receive error that states -

“Cannot Start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded”

Causes of XML error in Outlook -

• Corrupt or incompatible add-ins has been installed, alternatively incorrect installation may also cause such a problem
• Compatibility issues with the PST file
• Outlook.pst file is damaged

How to fix XML error?

To begin with repair of XML file errors, try opting for the method described -

• Restart the system from Start → Shutdown option and keep F8 key pressed, which will provide you the option to 'start in safe mode' Now, start outlook and here if it happens so without any troubles, it is confirmed that the problem lies with add-ins and based upon that, those could be disabled at once. Further, proper processing in normal mode is easily doable.


• Changing the Outlook Application Compatibility Settings and run the command outlook.exe/resetnavpane. The other option is complete re-installation of Outlook.


• If rest methods does not help resolve the problem, it is quite obviously the case of corruption of Personal folder file, which prevents accessibility of outlook and does not allows it to be executed at all. For this, you have the scanpst.exe tool provided from Microsoft with Outlook. Just search for the file, by specifying the name 'scanpst.exe' and after having access to the same just enter the name of the PST file you want to repair. Rest will be done by the inbox repair utility, all you need to do is following the guidelines given.

After, a while the repair process will get completed and the files would be made accessible once again.