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If one of those plug-ins becomes corrupt, your Outlook application will hang. Outlook opens checked add-ins (such as CRM, GoToMeeting, etc.) every time it starts. Otherwise, the only thing you can do is kill the outlook.exe process in Task Manager.

When attempting to start Outlook, the splash screen comes up however, your mouse cursor just spins and when clicking anywhere on the screen, it will tell you “Outlook is Not Responding.” Eventually, if you wait long enough, you may get an error that tells you it will close and send an error report to Microsoft.

Here are some of the most common errors I’ve encountered since I’ve been at DMC: Problem One: Outlook Not Responding This blog does not include the obvious, time consuming, and perhaps more risky fixes of completely uninstalling/repairing Outlook, running a scan on your OST file or deleting and recreating your profile from scratch. Also, these are very specific fixes to the problems I’ve encountered. Nonetheless, definitely try restarting your computer first before trying anything below!Ī couple of side notes: While this is more specific to Outlook 2013 running on Windows 8, most of these fixes apply to the older versions as well. However, it’s the Outlook start-up issues that plague and ANNOY us the most, and a simple reboot of your computer, doesn’t always fix these issues. A restart of Outlook usually will fix this. ost file (outlook mail profile) temporarily became inaccessible. Usually, if it’s an error while already inside of Outlook, it’s because you lost the network connection mid-session or your. The majority of the issues that I’ve fixed have been startup related. The main focus of this blog is to have one place to document some of the more common Outlook start up errors. Outlook may live locally or in the cloud via Office 365, which offers access to Outlook, Word, Excel, and other Microsoft Office tools from anywhere you can get a Web connection and from virtually any device. This is partially due to the fact that Outlook is quite possibly, the most important application and definitely the most used application in the office.

In my experience, the most widespread issues that occur for both DMC users and our external customers, happen while using Microsoft Outlook.
