Outlook Not Responding yet again.
This is really starting to annoy me. Every couple of days or so I’ll try to bring Outlook up where it’s nicely minimized in the system tray and when I do I get the lovely Outlook is not responding error message.
So first of all, the wording on the error message stinks. I don’t use Exchange server so that information is irrelevant to me. But there’s no way out of this loop unless you use task manager and kill the process. I’ve got this nice little quick launch shortcut that launches “%windir%\System32\taskkill.exe /IM explorer.exe /F”. I’m thinking I might need another one that kills outlook.exe too.
Wouldn’t the smart thing be to have a Close Outlook option? The next time I bring up Outlook is should tell me what the hell went wrong and why it stopped responding. I’ve viewed my logs and can’t find anything useful. I know it’s not NewsGator because it did this plenty before I installed that.
Here’s hoping this will get changed for Outlook 12, it’s one of the very few nuisances in Outlook. I don’t know why this wasn’t actually caught before Outlook 11 RTM’d, I bugged it every build. Though I do remember MS saying that it was non repro. Maybe if someone like Kase reads this, it might get looked at a bit more :-).