Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Do you have Problems with MS Outlook (or Lookout?)

If you are constantly having problems with your Outlook file crashing then there are a couple of things you can do.
You can try the detect and repair option from the Help Menu. This usually requires the original install disc so if you can't locate it then don't bother.
The next thing is to make sure that your file is less than 2Gb in size. Outlook will not handle files over this size. Compress it or remove uneeded large emails (you can save them to the hard drive or archive them to another PST file).
The other thing to try is Microsofts inbox repair tool. I have attached it here (Scanpst.exe).
I have renamed the file to scanpst.exe.rename. Simply edit the file name once you download it and remove the .rename from the end. Run this application, point it at your PST file and it fixes most stuff.

Don't know where your PST file is? It is probably in the C:\Documents and Settings\{your user name}\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook folder and will be named outlook.pst.
SCANPST.EXE.rename


Posted by: Jethro | 4:24 PM |