As mentioned there are several reasons for your Outlook getting irresponsive. Resolving these errors are not that hard. And the best way to do this is to keep a track of the latest service packs and the latest updates of your anti-virus. Even if, after updating all the mentioned applications your Outlook is still irresponsive then you may follow the below steps:. Checking your system configuration is an integral part and you must check whether your current version of Outlook is supported by your system or not.
If not, then you should increase your RAM or Hard disk and try to make it compatible. Sometimes these customization files and add-ins make your Outlook slow and in some cases irresponsive. And by disabling these add-ins will surely help you to run Outlook faster and fix outlook not responding error.
Microsoft Office programs may create this error lead to irresponsive Microsoft Outlook. And to resolve this, you need to repair your Microsoft Office programs.
So here is how to repair Office programs and thus resolving Microsoft Outlook not responding issue. So you always need to keep a check on the size of the PST files. To tackle this, we need to repair the PST files which in turn help you to resolve this issue.
It is a well-designed tool, to repair and recover corrupt PST files. To repair PST files for free, you may follow the below procedure:. Have you done any testing to see if this behaviour happens with only one user connected? Anything else running on the box? I have outlook running on R2 RDS without issue so it is not likely an issue with the software being out of date.
Try removing the files that have MAPI as the name and outlook will rebuild those files. I have issues with Microsoft Office 32 bit running on Win 10 64 bit and often crashed due to corrupt files or if a users email crashes, the MAPI files are the culprit.
Under the compatibility tab uncheck "run as administrator". Please exit Outlook client before renaming the hive. It appears that when the new version of Windows 10 is installed it removes the association that Outlook is the default MAPI client. When the DLLs are deleted and Outlook is opened it runs through a quick install process and rebuilds the files.
There is no Exchange server. I will try these suggestions Vito when I have exclusive control of the environment. It doesn't have anything to do with the actual fix of repairing the mapi and registry files, right? That is correct, just take a backup in case it goes hairy on you. I have yet to have a problem after the fix.
Additionally, I have found rebuilding the user Windows profile fixes the issue as well. Brand Representative for Stellar Data Recovery. User is reporting a much better experience since these fixes. Thank you everyone for the help thinking through the steps and directing me to the appropriate resources!
To continue this discussion, please ask a new question. Get answers from your peers along with millions of IT pros who visit Spiceworks. Microsoft Outlook Best Answer. Thai Pepper. Might try running scanpst. From there I attack the user profile next.
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