Resolved MS Outlook not closing correctly

Running WinXP SP3 on Toshiba Laptop.

This problem just started earlier today. I use MS Outlook as my default email program. When I want to send a webpage via email I click FILE>Send Link by email and Outlook opens an email window to send the link. I click send and the email window closes. Normally I click MS Outlook from my quick start menu and it opens allowing me to send the email I just created. Lately when I click MS Outlook from the quick start menu to send the email (by clicking Send and Receive) and error comes up saying program failed and MS Outlook does NOT open. I checked Task Manager and see that Outlook.exe is running when it should have closed after I closed the email window. I have to close outlook.exe from the task manager to restart the program. Any idea how I can fix this?

P.S I have been doing it this way for years with NO problem.

 

Several things to check in no particular order.

Problem usually because of a 3rd party add-on – especially Google - or a corrupt user profile.

Can check by going to control panel – mail – create a new profile and see if Outlook closes OK .

Check your pst file for errors by searching for the program Scanpst.exe and run it.
It’s probably in C:\Programs Files\Microsoft Office\Office12.

Start getting rid of Outlook add-ons.

 

It's usually sitting in the outbox waiting to be sent. I have it set up this way because rather than send an email immediately after hitting the send button, I may have several different emails to send and rather than sending them one at a time I let them sit in the outbox until I'm ready to send them all.

 

BTW "“ Open up: Control Panel "“ Administrative Tools "“ Event Viewer.
Click on Applications.
You should see an error: OfficeLifeBoatHang (someone at MS had a sense of humor).

Have you added any spam e-email programs?

http://www.slipstick.com/problems/close.asp for a list of some more Add-In suspects and
instructions on disabling them.

In my case it was QuickBooks.

 

I did the Scanpst.exe searching for outlook.exe and it said the file cannot be found. I then did the MS Office Repair and it completed as successful but that still did not fix the problem.

I still have my MS Office 2003 CD. I don't remember if it will allow you to only install MS Office Outlook will it?

 

I did a system restore back to this past Sunday which cleared up the problem however it presented a scarier problem. When I boot up I get an error message with the dreaded white X in a red circle which states, "HEADER...Failed to locate application resources ". It happens each time I restarted the computer.

I did another systems restore back to today and that cleared up the Header error message but I'm right back where I started with MS Office Outlook.

 

I think, but not sure, that the Scanpst.exe procedure finally allowed me to get back my system restore. I did a restore back a couple of days and that solved ALL the problems.
Thanks for all the input.