Outlook 2000 Repeatedly Hangs or Freezes on Opening

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Bill Murphy

Dear Friends:

My outlook 2000 is constantly hanging or "freezing"
whenever I try to open it. I have been re-booting and
this hasn't really helped.

Does anyone know what's wrong or have any suggestions
about how I might try to fix it? I reinstalled MS Office
2000 as well as SR1a and SP3 and am still having trouble.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really
frustrated.

Thanks.
-
Bill Murphy
(e-mail address removed)
610-529-6494
 
Close Outlook. Find and rename outcmd.dat to outcmd.old. Reopen Outlook.
(Note - if you are using Windows 2000 or XP, you need to enable searching
hidden and system files.)

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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Having searched the archives, Bill Murphy <[email protected]> asked

| Dear Friends:
|
| My outlook 2000 is constantly hanging or "freezing"
| whenever I try to open it. I have been re-booting and
| this hasn't really helped.
|
| Does anyone know what's wrong or have any suggestions
| about how I might try to fix it? I reinstalled MS Office
| 2000 as well as SR1a and SP3 and am still having trouble.
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm really
| frustrated.
|
| Thanks.
| -
| Bill Murphy
| (e-mail address removed)
| 610-529-6494
 
Hi Milly:

Thanks for taking the time to help me.

I tried changing outcmd.dat and opening outlook and it
didn't work

Might you have any other suggestions?

Thanks.

Appreciatively,

Bill Murphy
-----Original Message-----
Close Outlook. Find and rename outcmd.dat to outcmd.old. Reopen Outlook.
(Note - if you are using Windows 2000 or XP, you need to enable searching
hidden and system files.)

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.


Having searched the archives, Bill Murphy
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Does it open in safe mode? Try opening Outlook with the /safe switch.
If you need help using Outlook command line switches, look here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197180

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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