Outlook 2003 hangs in systray on exit

[Guest]

Hi,

I just upgraded to Office 2003 from Office XP and installed all the required
updates. My problem is that after exiting outlook, the icon stays in the
systray. When I click it, I get this message: "Outlook is not responding.
If you are using an exchange server email account, you can cancel pending
server requests by clicking the Outlook icon in the notification area and
then clicking 'cancel server request' on the shortcut menu."

The problem is I'm not running an exchange server at home--it's strictly a
pop account. The only way to remedy this problem right now is to bring up
the windows task manager and ending the OUTLOOK.exe process manually. I
tried uninstalling and reinstalling without success. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,

Jake

 

[Brian Tillman]

I just upgraded to Office 2003 from Office XP and installed all the
required updates. My problem is that after exiting outlook, the icon
stays in the systray. When I click it, I get this message: "Outlook
is not responding. If you are using an exchange server email account,
you can cancel pending server requests by clicking the Outlook icon
in the notification area and then clicking 'cancel server request' on
the shortcut menu."

See if something here helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/problems/close.htm