Outlook hangs on exit

[ew]

OS - XP professional, Outlook 2000
Problem. When I try to exit outlook it appears to exit but
the message "Please wait while Microsoft Outlook exits"
never goes away. I am not sure as to whether outlook is
really shutting down or not. Is there a fix for this.

 

[Brian Tillman]

OS - XP professional, Outlook 2000
Problem. When I try to exit outlook it appears to exit but
the message "Please wait while Microsoft Outlook exits"
never goes away. I am not sure as to whether outlook is
really shutting down or not. Is there a fix for this.

See if anything here helps:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/Faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm