I’ve recently upgraded to Outlook 2007 and as with the last Office upgrade, I’m glad it was a free download from our hosting provider otherwise I would have been reeeeaaalllllllllly pissed off. There’s some good advancements in it and since it’s a nearly new Microsoft product, a hell of a lot of bugs and problems. Top of the list at the moment is the fact that Outlook won’t exit when I close it.

It’s still running in Task Manager and even downloading emails although it’s not even showing up in the System Tray. This wouldn’t bother me too much except that it’s using 100Mb of my 1Gb of RAM which I sometimes need (for playing Command & Conquer).

After a bit of researching, I found out that it was due to the contact sharing with Skype. I’ve only recently noticed it so I don’t know if it’s an Outlook 2007 thing or part of a Skype update. To turn it off go to:

View > Show Outlook Contacts

and un-tick it. As soon as I did this, Outlook cleanly exited out of Task Manager.

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