Outlook 2007 messages open as a black message on new, reply or for

[Todd]

I am running on a Dell Latitude D620 with 4G of memory and Vista Business
(all updates and updated drivers). I have a lot of PST's as I move mail
around to keep my PST's small. Taks manager reports OUTLOOK using 266M of
memory which seems like ALOT. Outlook messages open as a black box when
maximize. I have to size them to a small size to have the text displayed.
This seems like a resource issue, but Outlook is the only app misbehaving.
Again, the new message (or reply/forward) is completley black..

Any thoughts??

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am running on a Dell Latitude D620 with 4G of memory and Vista
Business (all updates and updated drivers). I have a lot of PST's as
I move mail around to keep my PST's small. Taks manager reports
OUTLOOK using 266M of memory which seems like ALOT. Outlook messages
open as a black box when maximize. I have to size them to a small
size to have the text displayed. This seems like a resource issue,
but Outlook is the only app misbehaving. Again, the new message (or
reply/forward) is completley black..

On my wife's Vista machine, Windows Update installed a video driver update
that caused something similar. I ripped it out and made sure the latest
driver from the video card's vendor was installed.

 

[Todd]

I just installed the "Dell" driver and it had no effect..same problem. I
close "all" my .pst files except the one Outlook delivers to and it seems to
be better. Seems Outlook has a breaking point for the number of .pst
files... Just a guess. Would really like to have these open as I am a
packrat for mail and want my pst's available.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I just installed the "Dell" driver and it had no effect..same
problem.

Note that I said to use the driver supplied by the maker of the video card,
not the PC vendor.

I close "all" my .pst files except the one Outlook delivers
to and it seems to be better. Seems Outlook has a breaking point for
the number of .pst files... Just a guess. Would really like to have
these open as I am a packrat for mail and want my pst's available.

While Outlook may have an upper limit to the number of PSTs it can have open
at one time, I know it's quite large.

 

[Todd]

I had about 30 PST's, but they are all large..2 gig or bigger...