Major Problems with Outlook 2007

[Guest]

I notice that a number of people are having similar problems:
- Outlook crashes/Becomes unusable/wait why I restart-find a solution/goes
"white"/restart and then has to check the outlook file (which kills my laptop
usage).
- I also get a pproblem where I start a Send/recv action and it just does
that continously (100s of time before I can kill OL). It is hard to get
control back because the modal/continuously restrting send/recv.
- SAFE mode solves nothing

Its becoming a real pain.

Do I do a total system reinstall
(But I haven't had much sucess in the past in preserving outlook files from
one install to another).

David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia

 

[Guest]

I found that the 2nd problem is when mail in teh outbox won't send for some
reason (unknown .. got to solve that too). OL just keeps trying to send it
????????????????????
--
David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia

 

[Guest]

I found that the 2nd problem is when mail in the outbox won't send for some
reason (unknown .. got to solve that too). OL just keeps trying to send it
????????????????????
--
David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Possibly a corrupt profile or it might just be a goofy email. Use File |
Work Offline to access and delete or remove a message that is stuck.
Try a new profile if the problem persists.

See if disabling add-ins helps your first problem. Adobe add-ins, in
particular, can cause issues with Outlook. Add them back one by one to see
if you can find the one causing the issue. If you have antivirus email
integration enabled then disable it.

if all that fails try repairing the installation.

 

[Guest]

Possibly a corrupt profile or it might just be a goofy email. Use File |
Work Offline to access and delete or remove a message that is stuck.

Try a new profile if the problem persists.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

"I'll try that but I don't want to lose my current OL contents.
"

You won't. Your email, Contacts etc are all stored in the one PST file.
Locate it and back it up if you like but it should still be accessible.

 

[Guest]

At one stage later it suggested that an Adobe Reader plugin to Outlook was
known to cause problems. I took the option of removing it.
Things have stabilised for the moment.

Thx
--
David Jones
Software Developer
(Embeddded Systems)
Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
Melbourne, Victoria Australia