Sounds like this behavior is being caused by an add-in you've got installed.
Does the same happen when you start Outlook in safe mode?
Start-> outlook.exe /safe
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"Martin Racette" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> When I read/move/delete E-Mail, sometimes the folders information does not
> get updated i.e.: the number of unread files stick to the same number of
> files until I close the whole program and most of the time I need to use
> the task manager to terminate the program since even the exit option from
> within the program does not terminate the process entirely.
>
> How can I fix this ?
>
> BTW. I'm running Office 2007 under Vista 64bit
>
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> Thank You in Advance
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin