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Comment on Outlook crashing, hanging and freezing – common causes and solutions by Malcolm

Malcolm — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:14:32 +0000

Hi, My Outlook had problems so I reinstalled it/ Microsoft but now it says this Microsoft product (Outlook) is inactivated. However in Control Panel it says the Microsoft in activated?

Comment on Using Outlook QueryBuilder to define advanced criteria for Search Folders and Advanced Find by Windchimed

Windchimed — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 22:31:34 +0000

In reply to TechHit. Thank you! That Registry address is a little different than what I've seen in other instructions (the address they reference doesn't exist for Outlook 365). Your instructions worked with Outlook 365, so I really appreciate the info.

Comment on Outlook crashing, hanging and freezing – common causes and solutions by Salman Ahmed

Salman Ahmed — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:50:07 +0000

Hi,
The issue notice with IBM Notes IMSMO, the syncing issue.

All MS-Office 2010 has been noticed. What might be gone wrong?

Please advise on this case.

Regards,
Salman Ahmed

Comment on Using Outlook QueryBuilder to define advanced criteria for Search Folders and Advanced Find by Kedar Kulkarni

Kedar Kulkarni — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 04:44:33 +0000

In reply to Darren. Yes, it worked for me when I created the Key manually. There are a lot of tutorials available to show how to enable that query builder tab but none of those tuts actually tells you how to use certain important functions such as Received parameters and the accepted values etc. That's what make those tutorials a piece of half or unneeded info. I strongly wish that someone focus on the highlighted points.

Comment on How to find and disable Outlook 2007 Add-ins and plugins by Rod Hosking

Rod Hosking — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:57:02 +0000

imap and stmp windows block use of this program. Emails have been frozen for two months.

Comment on How to prevent Outlook from adding line breaks to sent plain text messages by Ruben

Ruben — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:15:19 +0000

In reply to Jim. Thanks Jim for the mention on digitally signed email. That was my problem. Without the digital signature, no problem. With digital signature, line breaks added. It'd still be nice to figure out a way NOT to add line breaks even with a digital signature.

Comment on How to prevent Outlook from adding line breaks to sent plain text messages by Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:33:10 +0000

In reply to Jim. Forgot to mention that this only happens when I send a digitally signed email.

Comment on How to prevent Outlook from adding line breaks to sent plain text messages by Jim

Jim — Thu, 31 May 2018 17:31:36 +0000

Same problem here.

Comment on Outlook crashing, hanging and freezing – common causes and solutions by Robert Mitchell

Robert Mitchell — Wed, 30 May 2018 21:25:47 +0000

I just wanted to comment becuase i’ve found millions of threads, but no solutions. some people have the issue where Outlook continuously freezes and have not found a resolution even following all of the suggestions they still have problems. I’ve found an additional solution and wanted to share.

1) navigate to the native exe file for outlook.
> should be something like: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16
2) Right click on the exe file (outlook.exe)
3) click on “troubleshoot compatibility”> Click on “Trouble shoot program” (not “Try Recommended settings”)
> check the box “The program worked in earlier versions of Windows but won’t install or run now”
> select “Windows XP (service Pack 3)
> Click “Test the program” This will launch Outlook in compatibility mode as Windows XP SP3.

It seems to be the only way to activate compatibility mode for office programs. I tested this in Windows 10 in the following versions: 1703, 1709, & 1803 with success (the error became present after updating from 1607 to 1703), and outlook 2016 seemed to work just fine in 1607 and older.

I’ve tested this with Office 2013/2016/o365. 2010 did not have the issue, 2007 did not have the issue, however i’m sure the troubleshooting would work for these versions for anyone else as well

Comment on Where is scanpst.exe and how to find it by TechHit

TechHit — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 17:52:33 +0000

In reply to Philip Buckland. Philip, In order to see Outlook in the Task Manager, Outlook has to be running. Open Outlook, then look under the Processes tab in Task Manager. You might want to sort the list by "Image name", so you can find Outlook easily.