My Microsoft outlook 2010 was playing up during start ups. Most of the time during send and receive of the emails it use to freeze and I have to end the process in the Task manager.
During Microsoft outlook 2010 start up I noticed that the outlook is processing quiet a few COM addins before the window appears. COM addins such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Outlook connector for Hotmail, Antivirus and anti spam addins. All these addins were somewhat were impacting my outlook start up and I was sure that they must be responsible for frequent freezing my outlook was experience.
So, to troubleshoot I need to disable some of the addins which I don’t require and see if there are some improvements in my Microsoft outlook 2010. After disabling some addins the outlook was more responsive and so far I have not experience any freezing since I have disabled the addins which were not required for my purpose.
Please see below step by step on how to disable outlook addins
- Click File and then options
- On the Outlook options dialog box click on Add-Ins as shown in the image below
- Click “Go” on the bottom of the dialog box and you will be presented with another dialog box as shown below. Uncheck all the addins which you want to disable and press ok. Restart your outlook and hopefully you may find improvements in loading of Microsoft outlook 2010.
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