Outlook 2003 crashing

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I have used Outlook 2003 happily for years. A few months ago I bought a new PC with Windows 7. Not long ago I started to sync contacts and calendar with my Google email account, and from there to my phone. I recently renewed my AVG subscription.

But recently Outlook has started to crash. I open up the programme but as soon as I click on an inbox, or try to do anything, the egg-timer (or its equivalent) appears and doesn’t go away. I have shut everything down (including machine), reloaded the programme using the ‘repair’ function, but it still won’t work. Well, that’s not strictly accurate: very occasionally it will allow me to send an email or two before falling over again.

Any ideas why this might be, and how to fix it?

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Have you installed SP3 for Outlook?

See the answer to this post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproappcompat/thread/0e5eeaf1-6aeb-4699-8f57-19f3b9027f19

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Often Outlook crashes are due to addons. Have you tried running Outlook in safe mode?

See Using Command Lines for a desciption of the Outlook command line switches.

Joe

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