Outlook 2007 does not check mail at start

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New machine with Vista Home Premium and Outlook 2007 from Office Pro.

Problem: Outlook 2007 does not automatically receive mail when I start the
program (I have waited up to 10 minutes for it). It used to do it and one day
it decided not to do it anymore.

However, if I go to Tools/Send Receive/Send Receive Settings and move the
mouse over the Show Progress command without clicking on it, Outlook starts
checking the mail and gives no error.

If I press F9, it starts checking the mail but it checks it twice, as if it
was already checking it and, of course, the second time activates the
2-minute limit imposed by my server and gives an error.

This is my send/receive setup:
I check only my main account (university account), no gmail, no rss.
The account is a POP3 account, with SSL on incoming and port 995, and SMTP
on outgoing and port 25.
File/Work offline is unchecked.
In Options/Mail Setup I have checked "Send immediately when connected".
Include this group in send/receive: checked (also checked for offline)
Schedule an automatic send/receive every: 11 minutes (checked, also for
offline)

I tried repairing my account, uninstalled and reinstalled Outlook and the
problem persisted.

Does anybody have a solution for this?

Thank you.

 

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I found the source of the problem. I had Yahoo widgets installed and one of
them (day planner) was linked to outlook to show my tasks for the day. When I
start the computer this widget also starts and opens outlook (as a process,
without opening the outlook window). Without knowing that outlook was running
as a process, when I was opening Outlook it failed to check the mail at
startup, probably because it tought it already did when the widget opened it
the first time. Anyway, long story short, I unsintalled the widget and now
Outlook checks the mail just the way I want it to.