Outlook

Sometimes after I have closed out Outlook 2000, I will go to Task Manager and find that it still lists Outlook as running. I find this very strange. Any ideas? Seems it would be a rescource hog. And Outlook already seems sluggish to me.

If I recall correctly, I think I have actually had it list 2 instances of Outlook as being open and running, when I actually only had 1 open. Seems there may be a "ghost" program running somewhere in the background.

I run Windows 2000 Professional
AMD Athlon 1.33
512 DDR RAm
40 Gig hard drive

Thanks

Eric

 

I have the exact same thing happen to me....

I can't promise this, but it looks like it only happens if you close outlook before it has finished downloading all email on your mial server... I think

It seems that if I wait until I see the "mail delivery complete" message then it doesn't happen.... I think!

Keep me/us posted

Curtis

 

p.s. Exellent signature!!

Those nice young men in their clean white coats, they're coming to take me away!!

 

Thanks exeter, I'll keep an eye on that; in fact, I'll try it out a few times, and see if that occurs, and let you know what I come up with.

One other Outlook question, do you find Outlook to be sluggish in comparison to Outlook Express? That is the only other email I've used, and I loved it, except that Outlook has the calendar and all that, and can sync with my wife's palm pilot.

Any thoughts on this?

Eric

PS Let me know when the nice men in white show up!!!! I'd hate to miss my ride!

 

Okay, that's not it, but I discovered other weird stuff.

I opened Outlook, and mail delivery was already complete, so I closed it, and went to Task Manager, and it was there.

Then, I opened Outlook, and it DID NOT add an additional Outlook to the list of processes.

Then I closed Outlook, but it DID NOT take the Outlook off the list of processes.

Under Mem Usage, it says it is using 17,080 K. That seems really high, considering IE only uses 14.000 K, besides the fact that it isn't even supposed to be running.

To weird.

Any other ideas?

Eric

 

Now I just discovered when I restarted my computer, Outlook was running! Does this mean it is on Startup or something? I can't figure this out.

Anyone? Anyone?



Eric

 

Do you have any MS Office stuff in your Startup folder, and do you use the Office Bar. (Hey, do your drinking at home, buddy. )

Outlook was designed to be a calender, date book schedule reminder, and a bunch of other things that networked business users may (or may not) find useful, and wants to run all the time. If you've got the standard "Office" shortcut in your Startup folder, remove it. Having Office run in the background bogs down your system a bit. If that doesn't do it and you're using the Start Bar, try disabling it as well. I've been saying NO to thise since Office 97, and so can't test them directly, but my Office 2000 Pfofessional doesn't run anything in the background, and Outlook goes away politely as soon as I close the window.

 

HI GT, Cindy here (posting as Eric ) I have a PDA that syncs with Outlook and I wondered if we remove the shortcut, would that interfere with that?

We do use it for the calendar, contacts, notes, etc. I am even able to check my email on it. I would assume that it does need to be running in the background in that case, eh? (Just thought of that)

Also, Outlook isn't on startup At least not when we access it from Start/programs/startup. Hmm... Is there another way to get to startup that we're missing and there's other stuff there?

 

Hi Cindy. Didn't recognize you with the beard.

Haven't used a sync function with it, but that may be what's keeping it running in the background, and I assume it would need to be running for syncronization.

For any operating system except for Win2000 (and Win95) I'd recommend running MSCONFIG to check what's loading at startup, but MS didn't see fit to include it in 2000, so that won't work. You can pull up Services in Administrative tools and see if anything there looks like Office/Outlook related stuff, that's starting automatically and running full time. Or you could find the Run key in Windows Registry and see if there are start commands there for it. But since your PDA needs to sync regularly with it, I think I'd leave it alone. It does tie up memory, but except when it's actually DOING something, it doesn't tie up any cpu cycles.

 

Cool, Thanks GT! (It's Eric here, with the beard! )

I'll try those things, but it seems that's right that it will run in the background and sync up with the PDA. I'm learning!

Eric