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Steve Hull
When I exit Outlook 2003, it does not totally shut down.
The active window goes away, and you "think" it shut down,
but the icon is still in the taskbar, and if I use the
Task Manager, it shows Outlook and Word are still
running. I can launch a new instance of Outlook, but the
application window does not appear. In fact, the only way
of knowing anything happened at all is to look in the Task
Manager, which will show another instance of Outlook
running. I found a utility on the 'net that was designed
to force Outlook to close, but it didn't work. (I wonder
why someone thought the problem was common enough that
they took the time to write the utility?)
If it matters, I'm doing several things that are non-
standard: 1) I'm using a .PST file from Office 2000; 2)
the .PST file resides on a different partition; and 3) I
have installed Spambayes which inserts a button on the
toolbar. Note that none of these are new changes; I have
been running this way for a real long time without any
problems. The shutdown problem only started a couple of
days ago.
The active window goes away, and you "think" it shut down,
but the icon is still in the taskbar, and if I use the
Task Manager, it shows Outlook and Word are still
running. I can launch a new instance of Outlook, but the
application window does not appear. In fact, the only way
of knowing anything happened at all is to look in the Task
Manager, which will show another instance of Outlook
running. I found a utility on the 'net that was designed
to force Outlook to close, but it didn't work. (I wonder
why someone thought the problem was common enough that
they took the time to write the utility?)
If it matters, I'm doing several things that are non-
standard: 1) I'm using a .PST file from Office 2000; 2)
the .PST file resides on a different partition; and 3) I
have installed Spambayes which inserts a button on the
toolbar. Note that none of these are new changes; I have
been running this way for a real long time without any
problems. The shutdown problem only started a couple of
days ago.