K. Orland said:This commonly occurs when something holds Outlook open, such as Synch
software (for a handheld), FAX software, antivirus that is actively
configured to integrate with Outlook (scanning incoming and outgoing email),
etc.
Check your Add In and COM managers.
Read here:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm
Merlin said:I have an intermittent problem with MS Outlook. Sometimes when I close the
application all seems well, but when I open it again, it won't Send or
Receive. If I then close it again and go to Task Manager/Processes I find
that Outlook is still running - sometimes there are multiple occurences of
this. If I then terminate all those occurrences and then open Outlook
once
more it opens with a message that there was a problem on the previous
closedown and it needs to synchronise the folders. It does this and all
runs
normally once more - for a while, then the problem happens again.
I'm now running Windows Vista, but the problem also happened when I had
XP.
I have Office 2003 Standard Edition SP3.
I can live with the problem, but it is frustrating so I would prefer to
fix
it.
Any thoughts?
That means that the original developer is riding around the Caribean in aTelstar said:This bug has been documented and is well known. DO NOT close Outlook
using the X button at the right of the window.
ONLY close it using FILE...EXIT.
This has been around eons, and I read a response at a developers meeting
transcript that basically said it is too embeded in the core of the OS to
fix.
Black Vista version said:this is one of the most stupid replies I have ever seen in a technology
newsgroup
Earle Horton said:That means that the original developer is riding around the Caribean in a
catamaran right about now, he has been for ten years, and efforts to
recruit him back on the Office team have been unsuccessful. No one else
who has succeeded to his job can figure out the code, for all their
Computer Science Ph.D.s and youthful enthusiasm.
Telstar said:Why? Because it is absolutely, positively, true?
Black Vista version said:you need to adjust your auto archiving options so that most of your old
emails will be archived and your inbox will grow far smaller...
Then do a forced archive.... to reduce the amout of emails you have.. you
could also do a manual cleanup of trash emails that you don’t need.
this is a known problem with outlook.. and stupid.. One would think that
they would have fixed such crap..
Telstar said:It is demonstrable that the X abort in a window is interpreted completely
differently (leaving the Outlook.pst file open) than the Exit command.
Telstar said:And this is one reason why the .pst file is corrupted if you stop the
program using the X button and then restart Outlook.
Gordon said:Doesn't happen here.....
Telstar said:Well I guess the tech guy for a 32,000 computer seat semiconductor company
is wrong. It does happen here...maybe it is a software interaction, but
others confirm it. We have messages transmitted that state to only use the
File Exit to leave...and it has been that way since Office 2000 at least.
Gordon said:hasn't happened here at all......
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