Microsoft Outlook is the world’s best and big e-mail client application which allows user to manage their mailing information more easily. Outlook is a complex programming structure which includes thousands of dll files in it. Outlook can’t work solely and it requires other third party software to work properly as hardware, device driver, firewall settings etc. Sometimes due to some reasons, it raises error or stopped working. Sometimes outlook goes not responding and crashes suddenly while you working on it. However, this error fixes after restarting the outlook but various times it doesn’t fixed automatically and requires some user’s correction to fix this error.

Cause and Fixes :-

1. Uninstall third party software or device driver: As mentioned above, outlook requires some third party software or device driver to work properly. Some drivers force outlook to use system resources until it crashes or stopped working.

Fixing: Must Remove recently installed software or third party tool.

2. Third Party outlook Add-ins: Outlook add-ins makes outlook easier and more interactive. Add-ins are the small program which enhance the outlook experience and give extra features to user. Some add-ins contains improper programming structure and incomplete algorithm. It is the big reason of outlook not responding.

Fixing: Remove add-ins or start outlook in safe mode.

3. Auto-archiving and Synchronization: Outlook starts auto-archiving your e-mails and messages while you connect your PDA or mobile phone in outlook. Outlook archive the message for fast synchronization. In this situation it requires more system resources. If resources are unavailable then it goes stop responding.

Fixing: Stop the entire background program before synching outlook with your phones. Don’t do any work with outlook while synchronization is in progress.

4. Oversized PST files: Outlook stores all the information in PST file. As the size of PST file gets increased, outlook requires more time to browse the file. If the outlook is busy in doing other tasks and you open your mail box then it might goes to not responding state.

Fixing: Scan PST file with scanpst.exe tool. It is the free tool which installs automatically while outlook gets installed. If it doesn’t work then use another effective third party PST Repair Tool.

After applying the above mentioned method, you will be able to fix outlook not responding issue easily.

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