Troubleshoot Outlook For Windows Issues

If you have Outlook in your startup folder, remove the shortcut from the startup folder. TrustedTech delivers unbeatable customer service, with experts in licensing and high-level technicians always on-call to answer your tech issues in-depth. Our Account Managers and Distribution Team fulfills orders quickly and efficiently, giving our customers digital downloads in record time so they can move on to their next big project. You may see one of the following errors in a pop-up message on your screen. If Outlook Desktop fails to connect, try these steps before escalating the issue to the ET&S Help Desk.

Resolution - Too many recipients in Outlook

Installing any important, recommended, and optional updates can often correct problems by replacing out-of-date files and fixing vulnerabilities. To install the latest Windows and Office updates, click the link below. She added her boss (vip) email directly to her outlook with password. I have reimage the laptop, recreate her outlook profile and tried uncache and cache mode. Not something you want to take on lightly, but sometimes you have to.

Similar to our earlier suggestion of repairing Office (see #3 Repair Your Microsoft Office above), perform the same steps except choose to Uninstall. Be aware that you may need your product key if you received one. Occasionally, classic Outlook tries to run a process in the background.

Start classic Outlook in safe mode

You can read about it and then run the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant to see if that helps. It can automatically diagnose issues, troubleshoot, and fix problems with Outlook. A more general version that can also fix Office, Microsoft 365, and other Outlook problems can be found here.

Is Windows Search or Windows Desktop Search currently indexing data in the .pst or .ost file?

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Step 3: Run Outlook Diagnostics

As active members in the IT community, we work to support our clients’ businesses and provide them with peace of mind. Visit the Technology Help Desk Support page to locate your local campus contact information or to submit an online technology support request. For password issues you must call or visit the Help Desk in person. The maximum number of distribution group members is 100,000 members, and the recipient rate limit is 10,000 recipients per day. If you need to increase the number of this limit try the next resolution. If you are unable to connect or are prompted for your password repeatedly attempt the following options.

II. Remove and Reconnect Microsoft Accounts

You can read how to fix your Outlook problem on the internet, but sometimes the suggestions don’t work for your specific case. So, we have produced this list of general things to try to resolve your problem in Outlook. A lot of times, a user will click on something by accident and change their view and be unsure of how to get it back.

• If you need to increase the number of this limit try the next resolution.
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• There are quite a few different causes for this, but one of the most common is a defective add-in.
• Use this workaround at your own risk.If your antivirus software includes integration with Outlook, you may experience performance issues in Outlook.
• Warning This workaround may make a computer or a network more vulnerable to attack by malicious users or by malicious software such as viruses.

Many businesses depend on it to keep their operations running, and having it break is a nightmare that usually ends up costing lots of money and causing a lot of frustration. Fortunately, with the right Outlook troubleshooting strategies, many of the most common Outlook problems are quite straightforward to troubleshoot. Below, you will see some of the most common issues that users run into, and what the most efficient way to troubleshoot Outlook is. You might need to set Windows Update to automatically download and install recommended updates.

Have you tried to create a new Outlook profile?

Sometimes when a user tries to search in Outlook, it either returns incomplete results, or returns nothing at all, even if you can see the email normally. Most times, this is caused by a corrupted search index, which you can rebuild. Keep in mind this does take a while, and it’s usually best done after the user has left for the day. Sometimes you’ll open Outlook and then for no apparent reason, it will freeze or shut itself down. There are quite a few different causes for this, but one of the most common is a defective add-in.