"Elmo Watson" wrote in message
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Sorry - it's 2003
and it's still running in Task Manager
it's not showing in the Taskbar - or in the other one over on the
right (WinXP) - sorry but I forgot what that one's called.


Outlook (and Word) have the nasty habit of not fully unloading when
told to exit. There are various explanations, like plug-ins not
unloading, but I've seen it happen for a fresh install of Windows and
a fresh install of MSOffice. Wait a minute after exiting Outlook and
then kill the rogue outlook.exe process. It shouldn't happen all the
time but it does happen.

Presumably by exiting Outlook you are actually exiting it. Minimizing
it to an icon in the system tray is NOT unloading it from memory.