Get the fixes for simple Outlook problems.

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Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager that comes with Microsoft Office and Pocket PC. As a big brother to Outlook Express, it offers you a calendar, a task list, a journal, an address book, and an email manager. I've been using it for a few years now, but even I run into problems that I can't fix.

Last weekend I was having several problems with the program. I blamed the latest round of Internet Explorer and Office patches, inadvertently starting a hoax. I was wrong. Today I'm admitting my mistake and telling you how to resolve your Outlook issues with a couple of free utilities from Microsoft.

Is Outlook eating system resources?

I first noticed Outlook eating up my system resources when my calendar popped up a reminder for an impending appointment. Normally I hit Snooze without thinking. However, my Task Manager was open and I noticed that 100 percent resources had snapped back down to zero. And there it stayed. When I closed the nag, outlook.exe surged to 100 percent CPU usage again. I closed the program and reopened it, waiting for another reminder to rear its head. This time there was no spike up front.

I believe that the shark is tied closely to the calendar. When it flares up, I simply create a new appointment, close it, and all is well. Did you hear that? It was me, breathing a sigh of relief.

The hoax
Unfortunately, here's where I started the hoax. I speculated that the problem was being caused by a hacked DLL. It's not and I'm working with Microsoft and Woody from Woody's Office Watch on a fix.


Keep clicking to get to the Outlook fixes from today's "Call for Help."

Chris Pirillo first documented his Outlook problems in his "Windows Daily" newsletter from Lockergnome.

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