Outlook PST Corruption Check

admin Last updated on: April 13, 2023

Outlook PST Corruption Check

May 14th, 2007

It seems like since I’ve installed Outlook 2007 (which I love) I often am told that my PST needs to do a consistency check when I startup Outlook.

I think I found the problem courtesy of Steven Smith:

Because when you shut down Outlook, the window goes away, but the process continues running for some time doing file system work on your PST files. That’s why you’ll see OUTLOOK.EXE sitting there in the Task Manager for some time after closing the window. However, when you tell Windows to Shut Down, it tell each OPEN WINDOW to shut itself down, and waits for all OPEN WINDOWS to close before it starts killing off processes. So, if Outlook is an open window, Windows will wait for it to close itself properly before shutting down. But if you the user have already killed the Outlook window, and all that remains is the OUTLOOK.EXE process, then if windows closes all of the other open windows (if any) before OUTLOOK.EXE is done doing its file stuff, windows will kill the OUTLOOK.EXE process (along with every other running process) as it shuts down.

Related posts

Software Development Companies Are you a developer managing IT infrastructure? We refer to you as an  Involuntary IT Pro,...

Mê mẩn với 1001+ hình play together đẹp nhất hiện nay

Mê mẩn với 1001+ hình play together đẹp nhất hiện nay

Play Together là một trò chơi giải trí thú vị với đồ họa xịn sò cùng nhiều tính năng...

Speaking @ SoCalCodeCamp, Fullerton

Speaking @ SoCalCodeCamp, Fullerton

1/29/11-1/30/11: Speaking @ SoCalCodeCamp, Fullerton December 21st, 2010 Date: Saturday January 29th, 2011 to Sunday January 30th, 2011 Location: CSU...

Windows 2003 Folder Quota’s Command Line Management

Windows 2003 Folder Quota’s Command Line Management

Windows 2003 Folder Quota’s Command Line Management October 23rd, 2008 One of my customers has a file server with...

IIS 7.5 for IT Pros IIS 7.5 for IT Pros – Slide Deck Learn how to setup, configure, and...

Request Presentation If you are interested in Steve Evans speaking for your company, organization, or event please fill out...