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Outlook 2007 reading pane gone blank
In my case, whilst I did not create a new user, I did delete the profile and
allowed Windows (Vista) to recreate it. But this didn't appear to make any difference. I think the dialog problem that I'm getting now might be related to activation, which I'm loathed to do until I'm in a position to fix the problem. I noted someone else here thinks Anti-Virus has something to do with it, and interestingly enough, I do have Trend-Micro installed on that machine, albeit the CSM Agent rather than the, I think, more common Internet Security Suite. The argument against this is, I have two similar machines, each running Outlook 2007 (Office 2007 SP1 + latest hotfixes), latest version of Trend Micro's CSM, and Windows Vista (SP1 + other latest hotfixes). There are unfortunately a number of other differences as well, which make deducing the problem from differences nigh on impossible, but it does to me weaken the argument for the anti-virus software being the issue. Jason. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Is anyone from MS able to advise what we should do please? Is it indeed better to uninstall recent updates? No, this is a end-user to end-user newsgroup. If you want a responds from Microsoft then you need to contact them via PSS. What were your results with a new test user? -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I'm absolutely fascinated by the follow-up posts from others with similar problems. I fired up my laptop this morning (I'm based in the UK) about 20 minutes ago and just to report that, as I type this, Outlook has seized up again as soon as it got going. Task Manager tells me that Outlook is now hogging 50% of the CPU. Here are two other symptoms of the weird behaviour: 1) Normally Outlook is set automatically to download my e-mail when it starts - but when it goes AWOL like this morning I have to click 'Send/Receive' to get it to fetch my mail; 2) If I open a message to read it (the reading pane is blank again, so I have to open the message manually), and then click the big black X at the top to delete it, nothing happens... I have to close the message, highlight it in the Inbox, and then hit the black X or the delete button from there. Yesterday, however, Outlook worked better for most of the day! Is anyone from MS able to advise what we should do please? Is it indeed better to uninstall recent updates? Thanks for everyone's support and interest. "Blue Max" wrote: Hello Roady, Here is another observation that might help. Incident to all these other problems, we have found that we can no longer reliably attach files to an e-mail message. You select the files and choose insert, the dialog closes normally, but the attachment field and listed attachments are never appended to the message. We're using Outlook 2007, Microsoft Vista Ultimate, and 4 GB of RAM, but still get some symptomatic delays while processing. ****************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in message ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. The reading pane is functioning. Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Outlook 2007 reading pane gone blank
I think we were replying at the same time ;-)
I can get assistance once I can deduce and repro the issue. At this moment I haven't been able to do that to a point where I suspect it is an Outlook issue. As I've mentioned in another post I think it's retraceable to 3rd party security suites. I'd leave it then up to them to fight out if it is a Microsoft issue or not as I cannot look in either's source code ;-) I can raise awareness at Microsoft so they might update the "Know Issues" section of the KB article for the security update but they cannot state these problems with 3rd party products without proper proof. That would result in yet another law suit ;-) Also I'm not fully certain if all the issues reported are actually retraceable to the security update. I'm not trying to dismiss your issues here but it is a common occurrence that once an update has been released people try to relate all their issues to it while in fact these are standalone issues or issues that were already existing on a system but only surfaced because of the update. Cause and symptom are easily confused sometimes. The fact that Outlook doesn't close when pressing the close button makes it a 3rd party issue with about 99% certainty. See for some solutions; http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Blue Max" wrote in message ... Hello Roady, We are starting to get a small following on this issue, but haven't heard back from you as yet. As an MVP, are you able to get any assistance from Microsoft on this issue? Upon Googling this issue, I also found a number of posts across other sites expressing this concern. Thanks, Richard ************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in message ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. The reading pane is functioning. Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Outlook 2007 reading pane gone blank
I can tell you that when the reading pane acts up, Outlook is using 0%
of the CPU with the CPU Usage being listed at under 2% total (for a quad core) for all processes. Even when outlook is running, or closed but still listed in the processes -- and I'm using AVG antivirus. On top of it all... it affects all users on the computer, even the one user account that's only logged once every two or three months. If that helps you out any. |
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Outlook 2007 reading pane gone blank
On Mar 20, 4:25*am, Simon wrote:
I'm having exactly the same problems as previous posters have noted and they also started last week - so presumably also linked to the recent MS software update. The reading pane disappears and fails to work. *A restart sometimes fixes the problem but only temporarily. *I also see approx 50% CPU utilisation fromOutlookin the task manager after closingoutlook. *It appears thatOutlook never fails to close completely and is stuck. Isn't it timeMicrosoftacknowledged the problem and gave us a timescale for a proposed solution? "Jason" wrote: I had the same problem as you originally described, however I've at least found a work around that *sometimes* works. *I say "had", as I now seem to have a problem that's even worse, and I know my original problem hasn't gone away... *I think they're related... Firstly, note that simply "left clicking" on the email, or using the up/down arrows to cycle through the emails does not cause the reading pane to be updated. *HOWEVER!! *(Now, because of my other problem, I can no longer test the accuracy of the work around, but thegeneralidea is right)... *Start by left clicking on an email, and then right-click on any other email. *You'll get the context menu up on top, but the reading pane will also get updated with the email you right-clicked on. My new problem, is the "Reminders" window now pops up, and I cannot get rid of it, or do much else inOutlook. *I try and create a new email, but I get the message "A dialog box is open...", but I cannot see one for the life of me. If anyone has a solution other than uninstall recent updates, I'd be most grateful! Jason. "Scotch" wrote: PS After writing the above message, I closedOutlook. *But Task Manager tells me thatOutlook.exe is a process which is still running and still consuming 45-55% of CPU!? *I'm going to reboot now and if I can get back to yesterday's healthier state. "Scotch" wrote: I'm absolutely fascinated by the follow-up posts from others with similar problems. I fired up my laptop this morning (I'm based in the UK) about 20 minutes ago and just to report that, as I type this,Outlookhas seized up again as soon as it got going. *Task Manager tells me thatOutlookis now hogging 50% of the CPU. Here are two other symptoms of the weird behaviour: 1) NormallyOutlookis set automatically to download my e-mail when it starts - but when it goes AWOL like this morning I have to click 'Send/Receive' to get it to fetch my mail; 2) If I open a message to read it (the reading pane is blank again, so I have to open the message manually), and then click the big black X at the top to delete it, nothing happens... I have to close the message, highlight it in the Inbox, and then hit the black X or the delete button from there. Yesterday, however,Outlookworked better for most of the day! Is anyone from MS able to advise what we should do please? *Is it indeed better to uninstall recent updates? Thanks for everyone's support and interest. * "Blue Max" wrote: Hello Roady, Here is another observation that might help. *Incident to all these other problems, we have found that we can no longer reliably attach files to an e-mail message. *You select the files and choose insert, the dialog closes normally, but the attachment field and listed attachments are never appended to the message. *We're usingOutlook2007,MicrosoftVista Ultimate, and 4 GB of RAM, but still get some symptomatic delays while processing. ****************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, ConfiguringMicrosoftOutlook2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ OutlookFAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, andOutlookis now working again fine. *The reading pane is functioning. *Before the reboot, however, Outlookhad again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several otherOutlookmalfunctions. *I noticed thatOutlook'sCPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in thisforummentioned a similar phenomenon. *Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. *Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? *I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. *I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, ConfiguringMicrosoftOutlook2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ OutlookFAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and theOutlookwindow looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. *Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work inOutlookSafe Mode? Start- type;outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, ConfiguringMicrosoftOutlook2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ OutlookFAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. *I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager forOutlook- could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in theforum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I too am having the same problem with Outlook 2007 in Vista Business not displaying a message is in the reading pane. This problem just started this morning. Have all recent updates as of today March 20. Am running Kaspersky 7.0 with no issues as of yet. It is a good working AV program. Also, when sending an email with an attachment, it does not "show" the attachment, but when you send it and look in the "sent items", it shows the attachment. I have Office 2007 Enterprise and later installed Business Contact Manager from the MS site. Hope there is a quick solution to this problem. Thank you, Richard David |
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On Mar 20, 2:07 pm, jlrodgers wrote:
I can tell you that when thereadingpaneacts up, Outlook is using 0% of the CPU with the CPU Usage being listed at under 2% total (for a quad core) for all processes. Even when outlook is running, or closed but still listed in the processes -- and I'm using AVG antivirus. On top of it all... it affects all users on the computer, even the one user account that's only logged once every two or three months. If that helps you out any. EDIT: I just noticed (and disabled for the nth time) the stupid itunes plugin for outlook.... outlook seems to run faster with that disabled (and actually recovered from a reading pane problem with just a restart of the program). Not saying it fixed it... but it sure didn't hurt it (by disabling the plugin that is). |
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Thanks, Roady, I appreciate the suggestions and link. We'll follow some of
the suggestions in the link to troubleshoot the problem and time will likely tell if this is a widespread problem or not. Thanks, Richard *********** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in message ... I think we were replying at the same time ;-) I can get assistance once I can deduce and repro the issue. At this moment I haven't been able to do that to a point where I suspect it is an Outlook issue. As I've mentioned in another post I think it's retraceable to 3rd party security suites. I'd leave it then up to them to fight out if it is a Microsoft issue or not as I cannot look in either's source code ;-) I can raise awareness at Microsoft so they might update the "Know Issues" section of the KB article for the security update but they cannot state these problems with 3rd party products without proper proof. That would result in yet another law suit ;-) Also I'm not fully certain if all the issues reported are actually retraceable to the security update. I'm not trying to dismiss your issues here but it is a common occurrence that once an update has been released people try to relate all their issues to it while in fact these are standalone issues or issues that were already existing on a system but only surfaced because of the update. Cause and symptom are easily confused sometimes. The fact that Outlook doesn't close when pressing the close button makes it a 3rd party issue with about 99% certainty. See for some solutions; http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Blue Max" wrote in message ... Hello Roady, We are starting to get a small following on this issue, but haven't heard back from you as yet. As an MVP, are you able to get any assistance from Microsoft on this issue? Upon Googling this issue, I also found a number of posts across other sites expressing this concern. Thanks, Richard ************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in message ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. The reading pane is functioning. Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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This is what worked for me:
Open Outlook 2007. From the Tools menu, select "Trust Center," select "Add-ins," click "Go" on "Manage Com Add-ins" at the bottom of the window, uncheck "OutlookAddin". That's it. "Simon" wrote: I'm having exactly the same problems as previous posters have noted and they also started last week - so presumably also linked to the recent MS software update. The reading pane disappears and fails to work. A restart sometimes fixes the problem but only temporarily. I also see approx 50% CPU utilisation from Outlook in the task manager after closing outlook. It appears that Outlook never fails to close completely and is stuck. Isn't it time Microsoft acknowledged the problem and gave us a timescale for a proposed solution? "Jason" wrote: I had the same problem as you originally described, however I've at least found a work around that *sometimes* works. I say "had", as I now seem to have a problem that's even worse, and I know my original problem hasn't gone away... I think they're related... Firstly, note that simply "left clicking" on the email, or using the up/down arrows to cycle through the emails does not cause the reading pane to be updated. HOWEVER!! (Now, because of my other problem, I can no longer test the accuracy of the work around, but the general idea is right)... Start by left clicking on an email, and then right-click on any other email. You'll get the context menu up on top, but the reading pane will also get updated with the email you right-clicked on. My new problem, is the "Reminders" window now pops up, and I cannot get rid of it, or do much else in Outlook. I try and create a new email, but I get the message "A dialog box is open...", but I cannot see one for the life of me. If anyone has a solution other than uninstall recent updates, I'd be most grateful! Jason. "Scotch" wrote: PS After writing the above message, I closed Outlook. But Task Manager tells me that Outlook.exe is a process which is still running and still consuming 45-55% of CPU!? I'm going to reboot now and if I can get back to yesterday's healthier state. "Scotch" wrote: I'm absolutely fascinated by the follow-up posts from others with similar problems. I fired up my laptop this morning (I'm based in the UK) about 20 minutes ago and just to report that, as I type this, Outlook has seized up again as soon as it got going. Task Manager tells me that Outlook is now hogging 50% of the CPU. Here are two other symptoms of the weird behaviour: 1) Normally Outlook is set automatically to download my e-mail when it starts - but when it goes AWOL like this morning I have to click 'Send/Receive' to get it to fetch my mail; 2) If I open a message to read it (the reading pane is blank again, so I have to open the message manually), and then click the big black X at the top to delete it, nothing happens... I have to close the message, highlight it in the Inbox, and then hit the black X or the delete button from there. Yesterday, however, Outlook worked better for most of the day! Is anyone from MS able to advise what we should do please? Is it indeed better to uninstall recent updates? Thanks for everyone's support and interest. "Blue Max" wrote: Hello Roady, Here is another observation that might help. Incident to all these other problems, we have found that we can no longer reliably attach files to an e-mail message. You select the files and choose insert, the dialog closes normally, but the attachment field and listed attachments are never appended to the message. We're using Outlook 2007, Microsoft Vista Ultimate, and 4 GB of RAM, but still get some symptomatic delays while processing. ****************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in message ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. The reading pane is functioning. Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. 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On Mar 20, 4:32*pm, "Blue Max" wrote:
Thanks, Roady, I appreciate the suggestions and link. *We'll follow some of the suggestions in the link to troubleshoot the problem and time will likely tell if this is a widespread problem or not. Thanks, Richard *********** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in ... I think we were replying at the same time ;-) I can get assistance once I can deduce and repro the issue. At this moment I haven't been able to do that to a point where I suspect it is an Outlook issue. As I've mentioned in another post I think it's retraceable to 3rd party security suites. I'd leave it then up to them to fight out if it is a Microsoft issue or not as I cannot look in either's source code ;-) I can raise awareness at Microsoft so they might update the "Know Issues" section of the KB article for the security update but they cannot state these problems with 3rd party products without proper proof. That would result in yet another law suit ;-) Also I'm not fully certain if all the issues reported are actually retraceable to the security update. I'm not trying to dismiss your issues here but it is a common occurrence that once an update has been released people try to relate all their issues to it while in fact these are standalone issues or issues that were already existing on a system but only surfaced because of the update. Cause and symptom are easily confused sometimes. The fact that Outlook doesn't close when pressing the close button makes it a 3rd party issue with about 99% certainty. See for some solutions; http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Blue Max" wrote in message ... Hello Roady, We are starting to get a small following on this issue, but haven't heard back from you as yet. *As an MVP, are you able to get any assistance from Microsoft on this issue? *Upon Googling this issue, I also found a number of posts across other sites expressing this concern. Thanks, Richard ************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. *The reading pane is functioning. *Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. *I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. *Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. *Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? *I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. *I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. *Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. *I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - This is what worked for me: Open Outlook 2007. From the Tools menu, select "Trust Center," select "Add-ins," click "Go" on "Manage Com Add-ins" at the bottom of the window, uncheck "OutlookAddin". That's it. |
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Within the last couple days I have noticed the same problem and finally
became frustrated enough to go searching for a solution. On my own I have completed many of the mentioned diagnostics with no positive outcome. This seems to be a newer posting but has anyone actually fixed the problem yet? "Scotch" wrote: The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Thank you very much for the suggestion!
**************** wrote in message ... On Mar 20, 4:32 pm, "Blue Max" wrote: Thanks, Roady, I appreciate the suggestions and link. We'll follow some of the suggestions in the link to troubleshoot the problem and time will likely tell if this is a widespread problem or not. Thanks, Richard *********** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in ... I think we were replying at the same time ;-) I can get assistance once I can deduce and repro the issue. At this moment I haven't been able to do that to a point where I suspect it is an Outlook issue. As I've mentioned in another post I think it's retraceable to 3rd party security suites. I'd leave it then up to them to fight out if it is a Microsoft issue or not as I cannot look in either's source code ;-) I can raise awareness at Microsoft so they might update the "Know Issues" section of the KB article for the security update but they cannot state these problems with 3rd party products without proper proof. That would result in yet another law suit ;-) Also I'm not fully certain if all the issues reported are actually retraceable to the security update. I'm not trying to dismiss your issues here but it is a common occurrence that once an update has been released people try to relate all their issues to it while in fact these are standalone issues or issues that were already existing on a system but only surfaced because of the update. Cause and symptom are easily confused sometimes. The fact that Outlook doesn't close when pressing the close button makes it a 3rd party issue with about 99% certainty. See for some solutions; http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Blue Max" wrote in message ... Hello Roady, We are starting to get a small following on this issue, but haven't heard back from you as yet. As an MVP, are you able to get any assistance from Microsoft on this issue? Upon Googling this issue, I also found a number of posts across other sites expressing this concern. Thanks, Richard ************** "Roady [MVP]" t wrote in ... Nope, can't remember coming across this issue before (and I'm here for quite the number of years already). Creating a test user is only to find out the scope of the issue; user configuration issue or company wide configuration/installation issue. It helps with troubleshooting and trying to find out how to make it work under your own user account. That's why I called it a test user and not a new user ;-) -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message news Thanks for your continuing support. Version number is: (12.0.6300.5000) SP1 MSO (12.0.6213.1000) Following your post I tried Repair (ie from Office CD) and this appeared to help initially, but since then the problem has recurred intermittently through the day. About half an hour ago I rebooted the computer, and Outlook is now working again fine. The reading pane is functioning. Before the reboot, however, Outlook had again slowed to a crawl, the reading pane was disabled and there were several other Outlook malfunctions. I noticed that Outlook's CPU usage had increased to 50%, and by co-incidence saw that the preceding poster in this forum mentioned a similar phenomenon. Is something going on here across a number of other users too? I haven't tried logging on as another user. Do you mean creating another Windows User on my laptop? I'd prefer to avoid that if possible... it seems to be quite a palaver creating all the new user's setings. I would give it a go if you still think it necessary - what is the way to do it as simply as possible please? "Roady [MVP]" wrote: What is your exact version number? Help- About Did you try running Repair already? If it still doesn't work after that, log on as a different user (create a test user if needed) and see if the issue also occurs when logged on as that user. -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... I tried running safe mode, and the Outlook window looks exactly the same as normal mode - ie it didn't say 'Safe mode' in the title bar, or anything like that. Is that right? Anyhow, the reading pane doesn't seem to work in that mode either. Thanks for your help with this. "Roady [MVP]" wrote: Does it work in Outlook Safe Mode? Start- type; outlook.exe /safe In addition see http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntstart.htm -- Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- "Scotch" wrote in message ... The reading pane has recently stopped working and is just grey. If I restart the computer, it may work briefly, then after a while stop and go blank again. Any suggestions please? Am running Vista for Business. I recently successfully restored the computer to an earlier backup following a crash, and also recently installed Business Contact Manager for Outlook - could the reading pane problem be anything to do with either of these events? Apologies if I've missed an easy fix elsewhere in the forum, but I couldn't see anything on a quick look. If an expert has come across this problem before and knows the fast solution, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - This is what worked for me: Open Outlook 2007. From the Tools menu, select "Trust Center," select "Add-ins," click "Go" on "Manage Com Add-ins" at the bottom of the window, uncheck "OutlookAddin". That's it. |
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