Troubleshoot Outlook Problem with few safety measures

MS-Outlook is most common email client used by the users as a resource for exchange of information. Every Outlook user is aware of countless features of outlook like social media connectivity, attachment reminder and many more. No doubt these are very good features but as we know everything has two aspects i.e. good or bad. Same thing is applicable to MS-Outlook as sometime it works like a champ and Sometime outlook users get exhaust due to its dreadful behavior. Dreadful behavior means when user is in active mode and all of a sudden Outlook gets crash and many more issues described below:

• Outlook speed gets slow down
• Outlook Add-In fails to response
• Outlook fails to open
• Outlook refuses to send and receive email

                         After reading above problems user might be facing same and thinking of how to get rid of these problems. User can easily resolve the above mentioned issues by keeping few points in mind.

Following are the points:
Keep an eye on Outlook Data files (OST and PST): Outlook uses two types of data files to store user information i.e. OST and PST. These two files play a vital role in increasing the speed of Outlook. PST file is file associated with user profile and come in to existence when user is using outlook in offline mode. When user is using outlook in online mode then OST file comes in to consideration.

                   Microsoft defines the size limit for these files i.e. 2GB in older version and 50GB in new version. User usually sends a lot of emails on daily basis using their Outlook account. This makes their PST file heavy and large sized PST file work as a barrier for Outlook speed. User large size PST file also leads to corruption. To get out from this situation it is advice to split large PST file in to small size PST files. User can also compact their large size PST file.       

                                                                                                    
                  But what if large sized PST file leads to corruption. Don’t worry user can run SCANPST.exe free tool provided by Microsoft to repair the damage file. After repairing, restart your Outlook to check the changes.   

 

Check your ADD-In’s compatibility: Newer version of Outlook has a new feature named as Add-In. By using this feature user can create Add-Ins icon of any third party software in their Outlook account. Make sure before adding third party software as an Add-In, it must be support for Outlook version install on user system. If in case user found compatibility issue then there is need to uninstall the Add-In.

 

It is also advised user not to install more Add-In to their profile as it also slows down the system speed. To check this, start Outlook in safe mode and have a look on speed of Outlook. User will easily see thedifference. This will resolve the problem.

Reinstall Outlook on system: Sometime there comes a situation when Outlook restarts automatically. The main reason behind this behavior is inappropriate installation of Outlook or there may be chances of configuration problem with Outlook. To get rid of this situation reinstall or reconfigures your Outlook with user system.
                                                                                         

 After trying all above methods still problem persist then user must follow underwritten suggestion:

Suggestion: To find out the actual reason behind Outlook sudden crash user must download and install the “Office configuration Analyzer Tool”. By downloading this tool user will easily get the reason why there outlook 2013 account crashes? User can also apply this tool for older version of Outlook starting from Outlook 2003. Moreover if users found that above mentioned methods are not rectifying the problem then they must contact Microsoft Support center to resolve the issue.