[mso] Re: Multiple copies of Outlook loading !!! Outlook2000

No. I am sort of afraid to. I am using a Raid system, and they seem to give
advice most beneficial to non-Raid systems. Do you know if "Hijack This" is
safe for Raid systems now? Thank you.


Robert

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Subject: [mso] Re: Multiple copies of Outlook loading !!! Outlook2000

Robert,

Tried "Hijack this" yet?

Lisa

> Hello. I am using Outlook 2000, of the office 2000 family.
>
> For months now, when I load Outlook the first time, one
> copy loads and runs.
> I do my email work. I close it (or at least it *appears* to
> close), and an
> hour later reload Outlook again. Sometimes the second copy
> will load,
> sometimes it will not. When it does not load, Ctrl-Alt-Del
> shows no copy of
> Outlook running.
>
> So I reattempt to load Outlook, and it almost always loads
> at this point. I
> do the email work, but here is the baffling thing: Exiting
> Outlook at this
> point loads and runs 17 (yes, SEVENTEEN) copies of Outlook.
> No wonder my
> processor speeds slow down <g>. I can delete the extraneous
> running copies
> of Outlook in Ctrl-Alt-Del, but they sure 'resist' my
> efforts to do so. I
> have to attempt to "kill" the process at least twice for
> each running copy
> to be successful.
>
> McAfee claims I am clean. Spybot says I am clean.
> SpywareBlaster says I am
> clean. I update all three this morning to get the latest
> versions. Despite
> the good reports, I am wondering what I have to cause this.
> I am feeling
> like the first time it loads, three copies actually load,
> the second I load
> it, 14 copies load, and the third time I load it, even more
> copies load. Can
> I kill this gremlin?
>
> Tactics I have tried:
> 1. Deleting Office completely and reinstall Office. Running
> a "registry
> test," though I have questions as to how well that was done.
> 2. Deleting Access 2000 and seeing if Outlook still loaded
> multiple times.
> It did, so I put Access back on.
> 3. Deleting all my add-ins for Outlook, rebooting, with no
> noticeable
> improvement so I ended up putting it back on.
> 4. Deleting Outlook complete and installing Outlook with no
> add-ins from
> Office cd. (This might be like #3.) This was no improvement either.
> 5. Restoring to a point of eight months ago. I lost some work in the
> process, but Outlook was still misbehaving.
> 6. Asking a technician to fix this. After five hours, he
> gave up. He was a
> Microsoft Certified Software Engineer, for what that is worth.
> 7. Considered that perhaps the Office CD was corrupted, but
> installing on a
> different computer as a test did not show this repeatedly
> duplicitous
> behavior.
>
> All this makes me think I should look somewhere else, but
> frankly, I have
> zero notions what to do next. Can anyone make some
> suggestions please?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Robert


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