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Sharing my experience and a few solutions on how to fix the “Outlook is closing” issue
In the past, I used an email client to access my emails and my software of choice was Mozilla Thunderbird. I believe that I have mentioned that a few times here on the blog. I’ve long since given up using email clients and prefer to use the web version instead, especially for Gmail.
However, when I got the Dell Inspiron 5490 All-In-One Desktop, one of the preinstalled software was Microsoft Outlook. I’ve tried Outlook in the past and since it was already there, I decided that I would try using it again.
After a few weeks of using Outlook, I encountered an issue where the program wouldn’t close properly. When I try to reopen or relaunch Outlook, nothing happens. When I checked the notification area, I saw a greyed-out icon and when I put the mouse over it shows “Outlook is closing“.
The best solution I had at that time was to kill the process because restarting the computer took longer. To do that just do the following steps:
After following this procedure, I was now able to restart or reopen Outlook.
Some folks are saying that the “Outlook is closing” issue is caused by broken or faulty add-ins but in my case, I didn’t have any add-ins installed so I’m not sure what may have caused it. The steps I provided above are just a temporary fix and you wouldn’t want to keep doing it every single time Outlook doesn’t startup so I’m also going to share with you some alternative solutions I found online that are supposed to fix the issue permanently.
I no longer have to face this issue because I stopped using Outlook. If you’re here to find a solution to help fix the “Outlook is closing” issue, here are a few solutions you can try:
If the options above failed to resolve the issue, there’s another option that involves repairing corrupt data files.
*If you can’t locate the SCANPST.EXE file in the location provided above, you can find it by following these steps:
**If you don’t know how to locate the .pst file, check out this link.
As I mentioned earlier, I don’t have to deal with this issue anymore because I stopped using Outlook. I decided to share this to help anyone experiencing the same issue. Hopefully one of the recommended solutions will help.
If you know of an alternative solution aside from the ones mentioned in this post that fixes the “Outlook is closing” issue, please share it with us so that we can add it here and help people out.
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