Outlook Startup and Closing Problems

[Guest]

I'm running Office 2003 on an XP MCE OS. Since I upgraded to Outlook, I'm
always had problems running Outlook a second time during a session, even if
it closed normally before. I click the Outlook icon and nothing appears.
However, when I shut down, I get a "Outlook didn't close normally" dialog,
even though it never appeared. After a restart, the "didn't close normally"
dialog appears when I subsequently run OUtlook and it wants to run in the
safe mode. I tried a Office 2003 reload -- that didn't help.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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I'm running Office 2003 on an XP MCE OS. Since I upgraded to Outlook, I'm
always had problems running Outlook a second time during a session, even if
it closed normally before. I click the Outlook icon and nothing appears.
However, when I shut down, I get a "Outlook didn't close normally" dialog,
even though it never appeared. After a restart, the "didn't close normally"
dialog appears when I subsequently run OUtlook and it wants to run in the
safe mode. I tried a Office 2003 reload -- that didn't help.

 

[Guest]

Roady,

Thanks so much. I went into my add/remove programs and completely removed
my copy of Winfax 10.0. That resolved the won't-start-a-second-time problem.
I was still getting an Outlook Error message on restarting, but that cleared
up after I went into tools/options/other/plug-ins and deleted the Norton
Anti-spam item.

Seems to be working 4.0 now.

I really appreciate the help. It's been driving me nuts (not a long trip)
for 6 months. Now if I could figure out how to make Powerpoint paste in
unformatted or fomatted text rather than HTML (appears to be the default),
I'd be the hero at the office.

Cheers. Pebs

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Good to hear and you're welcome!

As for PowerPoint AFAIK it pastes in the destination theme by default. All I
know is that it helps pasting in an existing placeholder rather than without
making a selection first. Combining presentations and changing styles will
be much more eassier than.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Roady,

Thanks so much. I went into my add/remove programs and completely removed
my copy of Winfax 10.0. That resolved the won't-start-a-second-time
problem.
I was still getting an Outlook Error message on restarting, but that
cleared
up after I went into tools/options/other/plug-ins and deleted the Norton
Anti-spam item.

Seems to be working 4.0 now.

I really appreciate the help. It's been driving me nuts (not a long trip)
for 6 months. Now if I could figure out how to make Powerpoint paste in
unformatted or fomatted text rather than HTML (appears to be the default),
I'd be the hero at the office.

Cheers. Pebs