outlook crashes when opening even in safe mode

Now, five months after the application became available for retail and online purchase, the forums and blogs are filled with crash reports from frustrated Outlook 2010 users, and there are lots of confusing theories about what is causing the problem.

At that time, I couldn’t find anything about it online, and since it only happened occasionally and usually only when an email was linked to a commercial website (or so I thought at the time), I was able to ignore the problem for a while longer. I remember searching for information about the problem in June of 2010. When several of my colleagues started using Outlook 2010 and began complaining about their Outlook crashes, I knew that I needed to do some research. I soon realized that the same thing was happening on my laptop, my home computer, and on the computers in our labs at IU. I thought that maybe I was the only one who was having this problem and that it was happening because of the way my work computer was configured. When this first started happening to me, the application had just been released. I have been using Outlook 2010 for over 6 months now and ever since I first installed it on my computer, it has been freezing and then restarting whenever I attempt to open certain incoming messages. Are you using Outlook 2010? Does the application freeze up and restart every time you attempt to open certain email messages? Are you frustrated? Are you thinking about uninstalling Outlook 2010 and reinstalling Outlook 2007? If so, read on…

Outlook crashes when opening even in safe mode