Long story short... I downloaded a non MS add-in from a pretty decent site which works fine, but ever since then the Outlook Send/Receive Progress box pops up ALL THE TIME, it's especially annoying when it happens every 30 seconds and I'm trying to do something in another program (i.e. type this post).

The "don't show this dialog box during Send/Recieve" does NOT hide it as it should. It eventually goes away on its own once it's done with the progress.

I'm pretty sure the add-in was the cause because I never had this problem before installing that. I tried to uninstall the add-in with no improvement to this problem.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

4/1/2007 10:42:59 PM

What type of add-on was this?

It might need to remove it from the registry so it won't load up with the program.

4/1/2007 10:54:07 PM

It did an assortment of things, the thing I remember downloading it for was because it minimized outlook to the tray and left it running... something my version didn't do. I'm running 2002.

I'll see if I can't figure out exactly what the add-in was....

4/1/2007 11:35:36 PM

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

is always the answer.

4/2/2007 1:12:30 AM

^ No..... I know it's a good solution, but I want to keep Outlook

4/2/2007 9:50:28 AM

This might sound a little crazy, but...


have you tried deleting the add in?

4/2/2007 9:52:12 AM

FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK
Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.

"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.

The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."

However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.

Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."

Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.

Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"

4/2/2007 9:52:16 AM

^^ I uninstalled it with no improvements a while back... I'm guessing that's what you meant

4/2/2007 4:31:07 PM