How to Fix Outlook 2010 crashing on startup?

Introduction:

Updating the older version of Outlook to the new Outlook 2010 can be this much annoying, I have never ever think about it. However, the software upgrade always helps to add up more and more advanced facilities in comparison to the previous versions. But, it could freeze the existing facilities of the software often. The similar case was there when I have switched to Outlook 2010. I was trying to start the Outlook profile but Outlook 2010 was not responding. The multiple restart operations also not worked for me and Outlook 2010 kept crashing repeatedly.

Such type of problems are being encountered by Outlook 2010 users. On the other end, such concerns can also show errors like Outlook 2010 PST file is not working. These problems are just to make the PST files unreadable. In this type of cases, you become clueless and keep thinking why Outlook 2010 crashes on startup.

5 Ways to solve ‘This Personal Folders file (.pst) is already in use in the current profile’ Error

Indeed, Outlook is the Microsoft’s flagship email client that is quite useful for communicating as well as offers many other functionalities, such as Contacts, Calendars, Tasks, Journals, and To Do Lists. Yet, there are many instances when it comes up with different error messages limiting the normal functioning of the email client. Well, one of the error messages is as follows: ‘This Personal Folders file (.pst) is already in use in the current profile.’

You can also face this error while working with Outlook when you try to import a PST file. And when such a situation occurs it becomes a priority for you to get it fixed as soon as possible. The simple reason being, the sooner you get it fixed the sooner you will be able to resume your work in Outlook. Fair enough, here in this blog we present to you the 5 best ways to solve this Outlook PST error. But before that let us know the causes that lead to this error. The reason being, the causes play a great role in taking right and corresponding approaches to fix the error.

Do You Know How ScanPST.exe is important for Microsoft Outlook users?

Microsoft Outlook is an Outstanding Email platform and working well. It provides users great features like Search Folder, Various rules, Templates to automate the workflow. MS Outlook uses the personal folder that is PST (Personal Storage Table) file to store all the mailbox data which includes Emails, contacts, calendars, Journal, Tasks etc. We have seen a lot of cases face difficult continue their communication via Outlook due to corruption in PST

Let’s see the most common reasons of PST file corruption.

·         The size of PST file grown very large

·         Improper shutdown of Outlook

·         System crash while Outlook is running

·         Storage device failure, Power failure

·         Virus Attack on the PST file

Top 5 Approaches to fix “The attempted operation failed. An object could not be found” Error

I have spent a whole day to find the fix for this Outlook Error “The attempted operation failed. An object could not be found” and now I have got the troubleshooting steps.

There are many aspects that cause this error like,

·         Outlook is running in compatibility mode,

·         Corrupt Outlook Profile,

·         Corrupt Outlook Data File,

·         Due to usage of bad Antivirus  

Here I have gather 5 tactics to exclude this error.

Multiple Ways to Split Large PST file in Microsoft Outlook

Outlook by default stores all its mailbox data into a single file that is “PST” file. It stands for Personal Storage Table. It is obvious that when the Outlook stores data in PST file the size of the PST will get bigger. User finds it difficult to deal with bigger PST File.

Outlook has set particular size of PST for different version, From Outlook 98 to 2002 the size limitation is 2 GB and from 2003 to 2016 it’s 20GB. Once you reach the PST file size limit, the performance of the Outlook slows down as a result Outlook hangs or freezes during launching. Or sometimes it gets corrupted. Below are some issues that found due to increased size of PST: