Microsoft Outlook is an essential application around the world. It enables a user to manage all personal information i.e., emails, notes, calendars, journals etc in an efficient way. This is a reliability program but yet, multiple users have faced problems while accessing MS Outlook emails. Sometimes, Outlook closes unexpectedly when reading or creating email messages. It is the quite irritating problem in Microsoft Outlook. Suppose if users want to create an email and at last time, before sending emails to the recipients, Outlook 2007 shut down unexpectedly in Windows 7 then what would you do? To solve this Outlook problem we will discuss a simple and reliable approach. Before that, let users understand all possible reasons behind the Outlook issue.
There are several reasons, which are responsible behind Outlook 2013 closes unexpectedly error. Usually, it happens when users want to upgrade Outlook to the latest version and the Outlook profile gets corrupt after a while. Also, it may occur if a .pst file is oversized or damaged then such troubles are quite common in that situation. Thus, when users want to start MS Outlook, it suddenly freezes and closes unexpectedly due to which all emails have lost. The same problem might occur even after restarting Microsoft Outlook. This problem occurs when viruses can affect any files or a Windows system.
Follow the below-mentioned steps to resolve Microsoft Outlook 2010 closes unexpectedly problem:
If you do not know how to access Add-ons tab for disabling them, then, follow given below actions:
Here, you can disable Add-ons individually to fix Outlook closes unexpectedly issue.
Until receiving the same problem after disable all plugins or Add-ons, then:
Next, Open an existing Outlook data file and keep all the files like a secondary file, and then, check the result.
If users have faced the same problem yet, then, they must repair the PST files. To do this, users can use Microsoft inbuilt solution i.e., Inbox repair tool. Follow such steps using free repair tool:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
The default location of the PST file for MS Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 is: C:\Users\username\My Documents\Outlook Files
Well, go to the desired folder where all original PST files are stored. In this folder, users will get three files i.e., filename.pst fixed PST file), filename.bak (unrepair, backup copy of the affected PST file), and filename.log (log report of the repair information).
This manual procedure is capable of repairing severely corrupted .pst files. It becomes fail when PST file is highly corrupted or damaged. In that case, users can take help of Outlook PST file recovery to resolve this issue. It is designed to regain both major or minor corruption problems.
Many times users want to work in an error-free environment and keep personal information safe and secure. But, sometimes while working Outlook users get stuck and face various problems. Out of which one such error faced by many users is Outlook closes unexpectedly. In the above section, we have already covered several reasons behind the occurrence of Outlook 2013, 2010, 2007, 2003 closes unexpectedly error. Besides this, a manual workaround to resolve Outlook 2007 shuts down unexpectedly in Windows 7 error has been discussed in a clear way. Else, users will opt for an automated solution to fix issue in PST file without any difficulty.