outlook xp will not close down

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I have developed a problem with closing outlook xp. Checking task manager is
still shows as resident and I have to manually close outlook form here. Any
ideas to the cause? Previously it started to close itself down after 5
minutes or so of no use.

Dave J.
 
cherkhan said:
I have developed a problem with closing outlook xp. Checking task
manager is still shows as resident and I have to manually close
outlook form here. Any ideas to the cause? Previously it started to
close itself down after 5 minutes or so of no use.

Dave J.
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Microsoft has never fixed this problem, even in Outlook 2003. Some
users claim that it is caused by an add-in that won't close (Outlook
loads all add-ins when it starts and then unloads all add-ins before it
can close), but the outlook.exe hang has been observed under a pristine
install of Windows ME/2000/XP with only following an install of MS
Office (althought I have not ever installed a stand-alone copy of
Outlook). The same thing happens with MS Word, especially if you use it
as the e-mail editor to Outlook (i.e., you'll see a remnant winword.exe
process in Task Manager). The only recourse is to kill it yourself when
you notice flaky behavior.

There was a Shutdown utility that I once trialed for Outlook that was
supposed to forcibly kill outlook.exe but I quit using it (don't recall
the problem I had with it). I don't remember if it was the add-in at
http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/olshutdown/ or somplace else.
There is mention of a shutdown add-in at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/comaddins.htm (Sue Mosher's [MVP] site who,
I believe, also started http://www.slipstick.com/). I don't know what,
if any, UI is provided by MicroEye's AddInMon utility since it appears
to be a developer's solution (i.e., you add the code to your add-in that
adds registry entries that MicroEye's addinmon.exe will handle).
 
Vanguardx said:
Microsoft has never fixed this problem, even in Outlook 2003. Some
users claim that it is caused by an add-in that won't close (Outlook
loads all add-ins when it starts and then unloads all add-ins before
it can close), but the outlook.exe hang has been observed under a
pristine install of Windows ME/2000/XP with only following an install
of MS Office (althought I have not ever installed a stand-alone copy
of Outlook). The same thing happens with MS Word, especially if you
use it as the e-mail editor to Outlook (i.e., you'll see a remnant
winword.exe process in Task Manager). The only recourse is to kill
it yourself when you notice flaky behavior.

There was a Shutdown utility that I once trialed for Outlook that was
supposed to forcibly kill outlook.exe but I quit using it (don't
recall the problem I had with it). I don't remember if it was the
add-in at http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/olshutdown/ or
somplace else. There is mention of a shutdown add-in at
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/comaddins.htm (Sue Mosher's [MVP] site
who, I believe, also started http://www.slipstick.com/). I don't
know what, if any, UI is provided by MicroEye's AddInMon utility
since it appears to be a developer's solution (i.e., you add the code
to your add-in that adds registry entries that MicroEye's
addinmon.exe will handle).
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Ah, I remember why I discontinued using Levinson's Shutdown add-in.
It's bitchware (aka nagware).
 
Many thnaks. It is a shame as it is a pain in the bum!! Works fine on my
laptop so I am at a complete loss to understand why this suddenly stared
happening. Well, at least then it is not me, haha.

Thanks for your help Vanguardx
 
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