rec.autos.simulators

Following a heavy IE crash on Thursday evening, Outlook has now
repeated a problem I had once before, where it hangs on the splash
screen and then refuses to continue loading.  I've found that if I
trigger a mail event, such as by right-clicking a shortcut and "send
to -> mail recipient", Outlook will then behave perfectly for the
remainder of that session - but once I've shut the computer down and
fired it up again the following evening, it goes back to***.

The only cure which worked last time was a total "format c:"
re-install; simply removing and re-installing Outlook, or doing an
"over the top" reinstall of Windoze, has no effect... *so*:

1) has anyone else encountered this, and found a simpler solution; or

2) can anyone suggest a decent replacement for Outlook, given that I
use the calendar, contact database and task scheduling as well as
email functionality?

Many thanks in advance,
Jonny

Don't know about the other things, but I'm sure you'll find similar
(most likely better!) replacements around.

How could you even consider formatting your HDD and reinstalling
windows simply for OE? I'm amazed!

Rafe Mc

On Sat, 1 Sep 2001 09:50:29 +0100, "Jonny Hodgson"

Now usually what I tell other ppl is that the Developing team that produced
O2K drank one to many beers when they programmed the code.

Do a CTRL + ALT + DEL  and thumb through your program manager.  If your
running win9x you will find the program rundll32.dll in your screen click
end task.

O2K should start right up.  your mail setting will be different if you have
a lan connection if you have a modem you should not have a problem.

Win2k will do this wonderful thing as well just not as often. If you closed
your program down and restart it while you have another copy running you
will notice the glitch.  ER um  Feature.

We've written MS for them to fix it but it is on a code base error they call
it a yellow flag.  (not to high on the priority list)

Humm if they are going to take over the world then you might think they
should do it right.  Don't you think?

BR,
-olev

Outlook, not OE... and I figured that since the machine had gone
nearly two years from new without a re-install, it was probably due
one anyway!

I'm actually a big fan of Micro$hite's user interfaces; it's just
frustrating that the code behind them is so ridiculously bloated and
unstable.  Next machine will get Linux though, I'm pretty sure.

Do your other suggestions also have calendar / contacts / task
scheduling?

Thanks!
Jonny

Win98SE... and rundll32 isn't running.  Not that, sorry.

Btw, after I do fire up Outlook my allocated memory (and hence
swapfile) start to creep skyward, to the tune of several hundred meg
if left along for a while :-(

Jonny

you could use Forte Freeagent, Freeware and pretty good stuff i still use outlook for reasons unknown, freeagent is better, Agent (the non free one) is probably even better.

Sounds like you have a cool memory leak.  Usually created by some bad code
or a faulty peice of hardware *RAM*  If you have other RAM availible try
changing that out.  If  this does not work your Motherboard cache RAM could
be toast.

My guess is that you have something loading that is causeing a conflict. May
be that cool plug-in for ICQ or something else.

Update stuff remove / unistall stuff its a teadious task but eventually you
will have a functional system.

I don't run anything from MS any more because its E V I L !!
Good luck

One other thing to try is to run regedit.exe located in your windows
directory. Use the find function and locate and delete any reference to
outlook before you do a reinstall. Be especially careful with this, as
mistakes can cause major problems.

Best of luck.

: Win98SE... and rundll32 isn't running.

IIRC, rundll32 doesn't reside in memory.  It's a launcher for other DLLs.
When it's done launching/running it goes away.

It's used something like:

c:> rundll32 shell32.dll <arguments>

Dale

: Since you have the problem as a result of a crash, I doubt your problem is
: the result of strange code. I would imagine you have a corrupted file
: somewhere.

Maybe even the previously mentioned rundll32... that's a common file to get
stomped on by a virus or trojan (the recent Sircam virus is one).

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Here's a thought though. Is it a corrupt splash screen ? I don't know the
name of the outlook splash screen, but it will probably be something like
outlook.sys (Microsoft are consistent sometimes...;-))
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I think I've seen som Unix command-line tools for Exchange
interaction somewhere.  if you can find them, I should think porting
them to windows using the cygwin-tools should be a breeze.

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Tried that... SR-1a declared itself to need to d/l 27 meg, got to 30
in my two-hour connection and then quit when the connection got
booted.  Idiot M$ people.  However, I've now ordered it on CD having
finally found how to do that in the UK...

No, it's Outlook.  CtrlAltDel'ing it after I've closed it stops the
mem leak.

Nope, was fine for ages then suddenly fell over.

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting for Linux to get to the point where I
can happily run GPL and some of my other games - then I suppose I'll
have to ditch MS Office, which I like as a user.

Thanks!
Jonny

Any idea where i can buy GPL. I haven't seen it in any shops I've visited
lately...;-)