Outlook crashing!
My Outlook keeps crashing for no apparant reason at all, in fact it's the whole of Office 2000, Excel & Word in particular after Outlook.
I have tried uninstalling & reinstalling, no difference! I've downloaded & installed the service packs, no difference! I'm up to date with the upgrades for my OS.
It's driving me nuts as it always crashes right when I'm about to save something or send a mail.
Any ideas?
What email programs do you all use? I can probably live with Excel & Word being awkward as I don't use them all that much but obviously email is important.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
mairving posted this at 20:15 — 12th September 2003.
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Any particular error message that you are getting?
kb posted this at 00:57 — 13th September 2003.
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I use Outlook XP, never had a problem.
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 01:30 — 13th September 2003.
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I use Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 (0.2 is out now... I haven't got it yet) for mail, and OpenOffice.org for Office stuff. Of course, this is on Linux, but both of the above have win32 versions too.
Oh, and they're both free.
The Webmistress posted this at 11:22 — 13th September 2003.
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The error message just says that Office has generated an error and the program will close down, nothing more than that!
Ideally I'd like to stick with Office as it's nice having the calander, etc with Outlook.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 11:39 — 13th September 2003.
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Did you install any new programs recently?
The Webmistress posted this at 12:00 — 13th September 2003.
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Nope, nothing new for absolutely ages!
mairving posted this at 12:12 — 13th September 2003.
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Did you install any other software or hardware? I once had a similar situation with Outlook, Word, Photoshop, etc. After completly re-formatting the system, the problem still persisted. It turned out to be a buggy HP printer driver that was causing the problem.
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The Webmistress posted this at 14:49 — 13th September 2003.
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Nope absolutely nothing new has been put onto the PC at all
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 23:18 — 13th September 2003.
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Any crashes/unclean shutdowns? No viruses? Open any suspect emails/docs?
The Webmistress posted this at 09:07 — 14th September 2003.
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Nope nothing, completely virus free, PC otherwise stable & I never open attachments unless I'm expecting them. I give up!
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 09:43 — 14th September 2003.
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One last check, do you use Windows Update?
wheaties_box posted this at 12:50 — 16th September 2003.
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yeah, just follow Abhi's advice.. use OpenOffice/Thunderbird. Better yet, flush windows and install Linux!!!
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