If there is one particularly frustrating error in Microsoft Outlook, then it has to be error 0x80040116. Just picture this, for instance: that you are talking a client of yours on the phone. At some point you talk about meeting face to face (or through a video conference), and you tell him or her to hold for a second as you check your calendar - on Outlook, for a slot on which you can put the meeting or video conference. Then you start your Outlook program (in order to access the calendar), only for it to fail to take off, even after several frantic trials - all the while with your client waiting on the line. You decide to cut your loses, tell the client that you will have to call later with a slot for the meeting, and upon checking what was causing your Outlook not to start, you learn that the culprit is error 0x80040116.
What was described above is of course just one of the situations where Microsoft Outlook Error 0x80040116 can let you down. Other instances where error 0x80040116 can let you down, besides when attempting to start your Outlook, is when you try to open a .PST file - only for it to fail to open, returning the said error every time you try to open it. Incidentally, as long as you are using your Microsoft Outlook software, chances are that you are bound to find yourself needing to open one or another .PST file - since the working of the whole Outlook program is dependant on the said PST files - meaning that if your copy of Outlook has developed error 0x80040116, you should be ready for a lot of frustration. It is, after all, in these .PST files that Outlook stores pretty most of all its data, from your contacts that you store in it, to past emails (both those that you send and those that you received) which it archives, as well as the calendar entries that you make in it.
Thankfully though, error 0x80040116 can be quite easily fixed. The first step to fixing error 0x80040116 is appreciating what it is that causes the error: namely the corruption of the .PST index, which is the reference file which tells Outlook 'what to find where.' When this index file is corrupted for whatever reasons, Outlook prefers not to initialize itself or open any .PST files - and this is what causes the kind of frustrating situation we started our discussion with.
Now there are two basic approaches to fixing error 0x80040116. One of these is simply un-installing your whole Outlook program, and reinstalling it - and thence doing away with the corruption in the .PST index file. This is, however, not a route you will want to take, when you get to learn that it means losing all your data (saved contacts, archived emails, calendar details) and similar things that you have in your Outlook. Thankfully, there is a better way: making use of one of the .PST repair tools that are nowadays available (and some of which are easily downloadable from the Internet) - which are able to detect the corruption in your .PST index file, and fix it, so that you can get your Outlook working properly again, without having to risk losing any important data in the repair process.
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