Outlook continues as a process after exiting. Why?

[Dave Dahle]

When I close Outlook, it often remains in memory as a process - how do I make
sure when I close it, it completely exits without having to open Task Manager
and kill the outlook.exe process?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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When I close Outlook, it often remains in memory as a process - how do I
make
sure when I close it, it completely exits without having to open Task
Manager
and kill the outlook.exe process?

 

[Dave Dahle]

See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

It didn't solve the trick - this was with Outlook 2000 on Windows 2000...
(it had behaved for a long time - Come to think of it, it probably started
after I temporarily relocated the PST file to a different computer with
Outlook 2003 then pasted it back into the folder in my profile where it
normally resides).
I think this is moot as I am going to be rebuilding my setup soon with XP
Pro and Office 2K3 Basic anyway.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It didn't solve the trick - this was with Outlook 2000 on Windows
2000... (it had behaved for a long time - Come to think of it, it
probably started after I temporarily relocated the PST file to a
different computer with Outlook 2003 then pasted it back into the
folder in my profile where it normally resides).

This type of action will corrupt your mail profile. It's no wonder you're
having problems.