Outlook 2007 Pain
Decided yesterday I needed to install VS2008 on by base machine so that I could do a spike on some new features. What a shitty idea that turned out to be. Outlook 2007 decided it didn't want to work anymore. Outlook would happily start in safe mode, but just would not start normally. So I tried tracing it, uninstalling all add-ins, used process explorer, searched google, etc... In the end I uninstalled VS2008, uninstalled Office 2007 then re-installed Office 2007 and whooop there it started working again. Aaaaargh +/-4hrs of productive time down the drain. Thank God for VM's otherwise I would have been totally unproductive.