Outlook crashes

[Carl Martin]

I've had MS Outlook (Office XP) for years now, but never tried it until a few days ago. No problems with set-up, however I've encountered two problems:

1. After the program opens, if I try to navigate to my in box, sent items, etc. the program will suddenly close. (Not always; I'd say 30% of the time.)

2. When Outlook closes (on its own or by me), it leaves a sort of "ghost" image of the top inch or so of its window on the desktop screen; looks like a "negative". It will go away if I refresh the desktop or open another program, but unless I do so it stays there.

I ran the "detect and repair" function but that made no difference.

Any ideas?

[Capper]

hmmmm. I used to have an issue like that, and I think I used the original windows install CD to fix it.
If I recall correctly, you can put the CD in and run the setup, it will get to a point where it asks you if you want to repair the installation or install a fresh on......just hit repair and follow the directions.

[Zambini]

I would suggest Thunderbird - Reclaim your inbox

Its easy and better than Outlook IMO.


Sorry, just had to throw that in there

[Panda Man]

Cause - Outlook

Solution -

Originally Posted by Zambini

I would suggest Thunderbird - Reclaim your inbox

I've never had this issue, but IMO outlook isn't really reliable and there are much better free alternatives out there.

[Carl Martin]

Thanks to all. I really wanted to try using Outlook because of its integration with other Office programs and many functions, however it looks like that may not happen. Perhaps I'll play with it a bit this weekend, but for now I'm back to Outlook Express. (BTW, I've never had any problem with it.)

[Cyberlon]

I would also check to see if you are running Office 2003 service pack 2... go to help/about and it will show what you are currently running. There is a bug list a mile long fixed by service pack two (about 120MB if I remember right)

[Carl Martin]

Originally Posted by Cyberlon

I would also check to see if you are running Office 2003 service pack 2... go to help/about and it will show what you are currently running. There is a bug list a mile long fixed by service pack two (about 120MB if I remember right)

It now has Service Pack 3, which just came out a week or two ago.

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Zambini

I would suggest Thunderbird - Reclaim your inbox

Its easy and better than Outlook IMO.


Sorry, just had to throw that in there

Couple of problems with Tbird. If you use Hotmail you're SOL because its not supported. If you use MS Exchange you're also SOL. I use both so Tbird is worthless to me. I also use 7 diffrent computers through out the day, and Tbird gets confused if you try to DL your email to more then one computer.

If you have one computer, and only use Gmail or something then Tbird or Evolution Mail are both real good.

[Zambini]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Couple of problems with Tbird. If you use Hotmail you're SOL because its not supported. If you use MS Exchange you're also SOL. I use both so Tbird is worthless to me. I also use 7 diffrent computers through out the day, and Tbird gets confused if you try to DL your email to more then one computer.

If you have one computer, and only use Gmail or something then Tbird or Evolution Mail are both real good.

I would suggest Portable Thunderbird for you then, but since U can't use it, no point :(

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Zambini

I would suggest Portable Thunderbird for you then, but since U can't use it, no point :(

I was very unimpressed with T-bird anyways. Outlook is allot better, it has more features.