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"dko123" <dko...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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"dko123" <dko...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How would I go about doing that? I can't even get into outlook to change
> anything.
"dko123" <dko...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I just did the Tuesday Vista/Office 2007 patches for today, 4/28 (a big
update). Then the problem reared its ugly head.
Currently using my Hotmail acount via Explorer, since my normal email
account (via Outlook) won't start.
HELP!! I rely on email to try and get back into the workforce. . .
I relaunched Outlook a number of times and got the failure each time. It
offered to open in safe mode, to no avail. . . (sigh)
After about the fourth attempt, an MS Office Diagnostics tool popped up and
inspected the entire office installation, RAM, and the Hard drive, etc. Nice
tool, but it found no errors.
I looked at other stes for answers.
I ran the "ScanPST.exe" (in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFfice 12) for
each of the PST files that I have open in
C:\Users\YourUserNameHere\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook)
Some suggested to launch "Outlook /Clearviews" from the "Run" (or Vista
Search) line. That didn't seem to work as I got an error for invalid
commandline argument.
I then launced "Outlook /Safe" (even though Outlook automatically offered
to do that on numerous prior occasions).
To my TOTAL SURPRISE, it did a few diagnostic things and rebuilt the
datafiles and proceeded into outlook without any issues! Go figure.
> Some suggested to launch "Outlook /Clearviews" from the "Run" (or Vista
> Search) line. That didn't seem to work as I got an error for invalid
> commandline argument.
Because the switch is /cleanviews, not /clearviews
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
One more interesting point, it was noted on some posting that the
"Sleep/Suspend" feature of Windows laptops messes with outlook upon resuming
normal operations as the system resources can get heavily taxed and
oerloaded. I used the suspend feature for the first time yesterday. I can't
help but wonder if that caused the original mixup.
And: just as an FYI, using the ScanPST.exe fixed mistakes that it claimed
to find, but that did not resolve the outlook crash. The "/safe" switch
seemed to be the only thing to do the job.
> And: just as an FYI, using the ScanPST.exe fixed mistakes that it claimed
> to find, but that did not resolve the outlook crash. The "/safe" switch
> seemed to be the only thing to do the job.
A good sign you have a misbehaving add-in.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
Now, Outlook starts normally, but yes, it did a rebuild of some kind and
that seems to have fixed it. . . .
"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: