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From: Bob Provencher on 3 Jul 2007 10:10 I did try it but had a backup... I was not successful. "Diane Poremsky" <outlookmvp(a)msn.com> wrote in message news:D7E34256-9B35-433A-8D2A-87E933A96FDB(a)microsoft.com... > Editing the registry should only be a last resort. A new profile is better > because problems like this often indicate other problems with the old > profile. > > -- > Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] > Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours > Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ > Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
From: Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] on 3 Jul 2007 11:01 Since Outlook does not do this all by itself for no reason, the steps that lead up to the problem would have been helpful to provide a more specific solution for you and to help you avoid the problem again. Creating a new profile is a sledgehammer approach that fixes a whole host of problems but leaves you having to recreate a lot of settings. It's nice not to have to do it if you don't have to. -- Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] "Bob Provencher" <bob(a)nospam.org> wrote in message news:TpSdnWS98Ju7xRfbnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > You had all the information I had. Sometimes you have to deduce a problem > from forensic evidence. In this case since I see that these types of > profile issues are pretty common, I'm not really sure how what led to it > is relevant, as the solutions never mention it. > > Fortunately the other user's suggestions cleaned up the problem. > > "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:e1HhDaXvHHA.3444(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> The more information we have, the more accurate we can be in trying to >> solve the problem. Since we have no information, just create a new >> profile from scratch. Make sure you keep track of the name and location >> of the PST file(s) you need to use. >> -- >> Russ Valentine >> [MVP-Outlook] >> > >
From: Bob Provencher on 3 Jul 2007 12:28 Actually, while checking through the kb, msdn and this newsgroup it appears that Outlook does indeed get into an inconstent state by itself for no apparent reason quite frequently. It stores a lot of state in the registry, since that is not transacted I can see why it get's itself into out of sync quite frequently. If it didn't there wouldn't be much use for all of the profile and registry fixer upper tools that people come up with to solve it's problems. They don't seem to need to know how it happened. "Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]" <russval(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:usblHMYvHHA.2352(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Since Outlook does not do this all by itself for no reason, the steps that > lead up to the problem would have been helpful to provide a more specific > solution for you and to help you avoid the problem again. > Creating a new profile is a sledgehammer approach that fixes a whole host > of problems but leaves you having to recreate a lot of settings. It's nice > not to have to do it if you don't have to. > -- > Russ Valentine > [MVP-Outlook] > "Bob Provencher" <bob(a)nospam.org> wrote in message > news:TpSdnWS98Ju7xRfbnZ2dnUVZ_sqdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> You had all the information I had. Sometimes you have to deduce a >> problem from forensic evidence. In this case since I see that these >> types of profile issues are pretty common, I'm not really sure how what >> led to it is relevant, as the solutions never mention it. >> >> Fortunately the other user's suggestions cleaned up the problem.
From: Bob Provencher on 3 Jul 2007 12:32 WOW! There were a ton of unused entries in there, after using it, it not only fixed my issues but start up is in less than a second now which used to take 30 seconds... very cool. "Christian Goeller" <mail(a)cs-g.net> wrote in message news:1k517g2biqp38.dlg(a)cs-g.net... > Bob Provencher, you wrote on Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:10:31 -0400: > >> Thanks, that's the sort of help I am looking for... no thanks to the >> so-called MVP's. I'll take a look at your tool. If not, I'll create a >> new >> profile and migrate my settings over. > > I am quite sure the tool will repair the profile and solves the issue
From: Bob Provencher on 3 Jul 2007 12:33
Between yours and Christian's tools my profiles are all straightened out, thanks. "Oliver Vukovics" <trash(a)publicshareware.com> wrote in message news:eTNUw$WvHHA.2040(a)TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hi Bob, > > this is what I ment with: > >> You could also try our freeware tool "Public Fix profile": >> http://www.publicshareware.com/outlook-public-fix-profile.html > > This tool has a backup function for the registry, so if you "delete" the > wrong entries with the tool, you can "import the old backup registry keys. > > Maybe it helps. > > -- > Oliver Vukovics > Share your Outlook PST files without Exchange: Public ShareFolder > Synchronisation for Outlook and Exchange: Public SyncTool > http://www.publicshareware.com > > "Bob Provencher" <bob(a)nospam.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:w-ednXx3iPROoRfbnZ2dnUVZ_qmpnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >> Thanks! Creating a new profile was something I considered, but was >> hoping to avoid. I'm looking for a tool that can make repairs to >> profiles so that may be the ticket. >> |