outlook won't shutdown or startup again

[MaximoAssist]

I just installed outlook 2003 this week, and when I go to shut it down, the
tray icon remains and I can see in tasks that it is still eating up a lot of
resources.

What's worse, is when I go to start it up again, nothing happens. I click
on the icon that started it originally, and nothing happens.

When shutting down, I often get errors and things that I need to close/endnow.

Then I get to restart the machine, and then once I go into outlook, I have
to go into safe mode.

For reference, it is a 1.2ghz pentium processor and 512M Ram, and 15 G free
on hard disk. Yes, an old computer, and I am thinking maybe outlook2003 is to
demanding for it.

Anyone have any ideas; is there a way to configure outlook for a dated
computer?

Thanks in advance

 

[Patricia [Outlook MVP]]

That configuration should run Outlook just fine. Do you have a PDA? If so,
is it docked when you shut down Outlook? If so, try undocking it before you
close Outlook. There is something that is keeping Outlook in memory. It
could also be an add-in that's running. Check Tools, Options, Other,
Advanced Options, Add-ins and COM Add-ins and post back with what you see
there if undocking a PDA doesn't fix the issue.

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Patricia Cardoza DiGiacomo
Outlook MVP
Author - Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Lead Author - Access 2003 VBA Programmer's Reference
Author - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft OneNote 2003

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