Multiple Instances in Task Manager After Close (Outlook 2002)

[Dale Durnell]

I'm running WinXP2/Pro Sp2, and Outlook 2002/SP3 on a custom 3GHz P4
machine. Also Running F-Secure.

After opening and closing Outlook, some portion of the code continues to run
in the background. At times I've found only a couple of instances running in
the background, other times I find as many as 20 instances listed in
"Processes" section of Task manager.

Each of these instances in consuming between 7K and 16K of memory.

Eventually, I'll try to click on send and receive and I get an "Operation
Failed" message until I close out some of these extraneous instances.

I have Outlook installed on three machines (two at the house and one at the
office). The offending computer is the one at the office. Occasionally, I'll
find a second instance in the background at the house, but nothing on the
level of finds that I encounter at the office.

There's got to be a setting I'm missing, or something that's not turned off
that needs to be.

Any suggestions?? TIA

Dale

 

[Brian Tillman]

After opening and closing Outlook, some portion of the code continues
to run in the background. At times I've found only a couple of
instances running in the background, other times I find as many as 20
instances listed in "Processes" section of Task manager.

See if something here helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

 

[Dale Durnell]

Brian,

Thanks -- I found the fix in the suggestions on that page -- it was the
lame Earthlink Spamblocker addin. It doesn't show in the Add-in manager, but
it's always on the toolbar. So, I deleted the addin through the control
panel and now all is back to working.

Appreciate the help -- that's a handy link

Dale