Outlook

I'm using Office 2000.

Outlook is a highly configurable program. This means that before it shuts down it has to check your settings to see what it's supposed to do. For example, lets say that you have it set to permanently delete deleted items at exit. This means the program has to look in your deleted items folder for any deleted items and the ask you if you're sure you want to delete them. This all takes time. Also, if you're running it over a network you have to take into account network traffic.

This is the only workstation on the network of 70 workstations that doesn't exit.

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Make sure journaling is turned off and delete all journal entries.

Dear Luser Deleted,
Why didn't you tell us at the outset that your problem was with one machine out of many? That changes everything.

1. Outlook takes longer to exit than you may think. Even though the program drops from view, components continue to close for some time.

2. This problem with especially slow close- I have seen this with offline folders. Are you using them? You can tell by the little icon in the Outlook bar that has an up and a down arrow (kind of like a shortcut).

Have you tried "Detect and Repair" in the Help Menu ?
Check the network settings for that computer - you may have a defective network card
In the options menu... check the settings on the "Internet E-mail" tab

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