[mso] Re: Outlook 2000 blocking itself
- From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:31:49 -0400
This was a known issue with Outlook 2000...got a little better with 2002,
and is pretty much fixed in 2003, but I still see more than one instance of
outlook.exe in that task manager on occasion (but it's pretty rare
now....with 2003, I have that problem more with FrontPage than I do with
Outlook)....but, to answer your question, NO, you do NOT need two instances
of it. One is all you need.
I remember with Outlook 2000 that often times I would close Outlook and then
reopen it later and that's when I would notice that there were 2 of them in
my task manager....what I remember happening was when I closed it, it
continued to run as a process, so when I opened it again, I ended up with 2.
It seemed that it NEVER really closed when I closed it...it was ALWAYS
running as a process unless I manually ended task on it
The only way I know of to "fix" it is to upgrade to 2002, or preferably,
2003...cuz I don't remember it being fixed in 2000 (service patches SAID
they fixed it, but they didn't)
TIP: When you are in the task manager, you can click on the column headings
to sort by that column, so clicking on "image name" puts all the
outlook.exe's together, so you don't have to scroll thru that list to find
them all.
Linda
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andrew the Owl
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:46 AM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Outlook 2000 blocking itself
If I inadvertently double-click the Outlook shortcut more than once before
an instance of Outlook has opened, I find that it never opens. It appears
to block itself. The only way out of this I have found (apart from
restarting) is to go into Task Manager, scroll to the bottom of the
Processes and end instances of OUTLOOK.EXE successively until there are two
left, when Outlook will open.
Is this a known "feature" and should I really see TWO instances of
OUTLOOK.EXE (under normal conditions), both with quite a hefty memory usage?
Andrew Kendon
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