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« Outlook 2010 not responding on Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit
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- I had the most painful experience with Outlook 2010 32 bit on Windows 7 64 bit. Don’t ask me why I installed the 32bit version on the 64 bit OS….the 32 bit CD was just handy on that day.
After opening Outlook for couple of minutes, it would stop responding and I had to kill it using the Task Manager. I applied all latest patches, disabled add-ons and tried several other solutions, including deleting and recreating profiles, but none of the solutions helped. I finally moved over to Thunderbird and it worked great for quite some time. And then I got couple of email attachments, which for some reason got corrupted, when I tried to save them from Thunderbird. This got me worried because I had to ask my client to send me attachments several times, in different formats (PPTX, PPT etc). However, I realized that if opened that email using Outlook (I use IMAP), it had no problem opening the attachments. To make the story short, I realized I had to get back to Outlook. I had no other option.
I then uninstalled the MS Office 32 bit version and installed the 64 bit version and now, everything is working perfect.
2 commentsto “Outlook 2010 not responding on Microsoft Windows 7 64 bit”
I had the same problem, but my Outlook add-ins aren’t compatible with 64-bit, so I had to install Office in 32-bit mode.
It is interesting to hear that upgrading to 64-bit Office has solved your problems.
I have deployed a number of 64-bit Windows 7 machines, and in the process I looked into the choice of 32-bit or 64-bit Office. Interestingly, Microsoft actually suggests that 32-bit would be a better choice…. although they of course don’t say anything like “recommend”.
Anyway… I went 32-bit Office on purpose due to what MS said about it, and to be able to have support for other things like plug-ins/add-ons (which is apparently quite limited with 64-bit Office).