System Offline - Outlook Hangs - Synchronizing Folders

[Stewart Berman]

Office 2007 Ultimate
XP Pro SP3

I had an Internet connectivity problem and had to take my computer offline. When I started Outlook
I got a message from the tray icon saying Outlook could not reach the server and would be working
offline. Then it turned into a different icon and the mouse over tip says "Microsoft Outlook is
synchronizing folders."

Outlook is "Not Responding". The status bar says "Send/Receive Status 60%".

Is there a problem using Outlook offline? Why does it say it is synchronizing folders when there
isn't anything to synchronize them with?

If I kill it it just reopens and hangs again.

Is there a way open Outlook without an add-ins getting loaded (in case this is a add-in problem)?

 

[DL]

Syncing folders is OL polling for new mail
Start
Run
outlook.exe /safe

 

[Kathleen Orland]

You don't say what O/S you're using so:

Start > Run > outlook.exe /safe

Vista: Start > Start Search > outlook.exe /safe

Note there is a space between outlook.exe and /safe.

Office 2007 Ultimate
XP Pro SP3

I had an Internet connectivity problem and had to take my computer

offline. When I started Outlook

I got a message from the tray icon saying Outlook could not reach the server and would be working
offline. Then it turned into a different icon and the mouse over tip says "Microsoft Outlook is
synchronizing folders."

Outlook is "Not Responding". The status bar says "Send/Receive Status 60%".

Is there a problem using Outlook offline? Why does it say it is

synchronizing folders when there

isn't anything to synchronize them with?

If I kill it it just reopens and hangs again.

Is there a way open Outlook without an add-ins getting loaded (in case

this is a add-in problem)?