Outlook Hangs on Shutdown

[Emmett Tolbert]

I have seen several people post a problem with Outlook
hanging and still running when closed. I am having this
problem on a Windows XP Pro machine running outlook 2000.
When the user closes outlook it hang in the middle of the
screen with the message box saying please wait while
Outlook closes and that will stay there till you manually
end task on it in the Task Manager. There are also a
couple of errors that come up in the application event log
about the application hanging but they are very vague and
don't really give you any information. Could someone
please give an answer to this. I have performed all the
latest updates for xp and office 2000.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Check your add-ins first and see if they need to be updated. Also check
whether you have uncradled your PDA before closing Outlook or your
synchronisation software will not let go of the Outlook.exe process;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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