Outlook Start Up-Kicks me out!

I have an old laptop from an old employer. Whenever I start up outlook, it
looks for the exchange server, tells me it can not connect, and kicks me out
without ever allowing me to make any changes to settings.
Is there a way to bypass this? I want to use Outlook independant of the
exchange server just to access other PST. files and contacts.
Thanks.

DL
Thu Apr 24 07:43:29 PDT 2008

Use the Mail Applet in the control panel to create a new Profile, set it as
default or delete old profile, add a new data file & the mail accounts &
test

"kissell" <kissell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:29CAA227-8B81-4008-9DC8-7324D5B79EC6@microsoft.com...
>I have an old laptop from an old employer. Whenever I start up outlook, it
> looks for the exchange server, tells me it can not connect, and kicks me
> out
> without ever allowing me to make any changes to settings.
> Is there a way to bypass this? I want to use Outlook independant of the
> exchange server just to access other PST. files and contacts.
> Thanks.