Why Outlook 2010 Crashes on Vista

Microsoft Outlook 2010 comprises various enticing features like improved graphical user interface, ribbon based menus, single click access to various menu options, easy management of email items, improved search feature, easy scheduling, easy management of multiple email accounts from one place, large storage capacity, etc. Microsoft has made lots of improvements in Outlook 2010 but the issue of PST corruption is still not resolved.

Personal Storage Table (PST) is the file in which MS Outlook saves user’s emails, notes, contacts, journals, calendar items, etc. locally on user’s computer. Corruption of PST file leads into the loss of important emails, contacts, and calendar items. Therefore, the PST damage cannot be taken lightly. The PST file can be damaged due to so many reasons like virus attack, abrupt system shut down, software malfunctioning, headers corruption, exceeding maximum file size limit, etc.

Damage of the PST file can also lead into the crash of MS Outlook 2010. One of such instances has been noticed in Windows Vista and Outlook 2010. Outlook 2010 installed on Windows Vista may get crashed if you open the corrupt PST in it. Let us take a scenario to understand the situation. Suppose one fine day you started MS Outlook on Windows Vista to send an important email to your friends. As you logon to your account, Outlook gets closed abruptly without displaying any sort of error message. However, a message is logged into the Application event log of Windows and that message is:

AppName: Outlook.exe

AppVer: 14.0.4760.1000

ModName: Kernelbase.dll

ModVer: 6.1.7600.16385

Offset: 0003194b

Understand the Message Logged into the Application Event Log

Just by seeing few numbers in the event log, you may not exactly understand that what this error message actually is. Therefore, this article tells you what that error message is and why it occurs. This error message is trying to convey that Outlook.exe has been crashed due to the corrupt PST file.

How to Resolve the Issue

The very first thing that most of the Outlook users do after crashing of the Outlook is they reinstall MS Outlook and then they create a new profile. Taking this action is quite good if the email stored in the corrupt PST files are not important or you have backup of the PST file. If you have backup of the corrupt PST file then you can access that file with new Outlook profile and then move messages from backup file to the new PST file. This way you will be able to recover lost emails.

However, if you do not have backup of the PST then you have to go for Outlook repair. By outlook PST repair, we mean from repairing the corrupt PST file. You can repair the damage PST file with an efficient PST repair and recovery tool.

A good quality outlook repair" tool thoroughly scans the damaged PST file, repairs the PST files, and saves a copy of the repaired PST file on your computer. The repaired PST file then can be accessed with MS Outlook 2010, 2007, XP, and earlier versions.

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