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Old February 13th 07, 02:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Eric Law
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Default Lost "to" email dropdown?

Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally changed on her machine), the dropdown with recently-used
email addresses that appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law


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Old February 13th 07, 04:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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Default Lost "to" email dropdown?

that's the autocomplete cache. It's probably corrupt and was replaced with a
new cache file. You can't recover the old one but as she sends messages it
will be rebuilt.

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"Eric Law" wrote in message
...
Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone
in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally changed
on her machine), the dropdown with recently-used email addresses that
appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has
disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law


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Old February 13th 07, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Eric Law
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Default Lost "to" email dropdown?

Yeah I figured it was something like that. So Outlook does this automatically?

Eric

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ...
that's the autocomplete cache. It's probably corrupt and was replaced with a new cache file. You can't recover the old one
but as she sends messages it will be rebuilt.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

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"Eric Law" wrote in message ...
Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally changed on her machine), the dropdown with
recently-used email addresses that appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law




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Old February 13th 07, 10:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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Default Lost "to" email dropdown?

Yes, it adds names to the cache automatically. It can be disabled in tools,
options.

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"Eric Law" wrote in message
...
Yeah I figured it was something like that. So Outlook does this
automatically?

Eric

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
...
that's the autocomplete cache. It's probably corrupt and was replaced
with a new cache file. You can't recover the old one but as she sends
messages it will be rebuilt.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks?
http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:



"Eric Law" wrote in message
...
Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone
in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally
changed on her machine), the dropdown with recently-used email addresses
that appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has
disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law





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Old February 13th 07, 10:59 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Eric Law
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Default UPDATE Lost "to" email dropdown?

Update:

Ran SpyBot on the machine, it found a number of spyware programs. Removed them, and the Outlook problem went away!

Eric

"Eric Law" wrote in message ...
Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally changed on her machine), the dropdown with recently-used
email addresses that appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law



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Old February 13th 07, 11:55 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook
Diane Poremsky [MVP]
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Default UPDATE Lost "to" email dropdown?

that means one of the spy programs was interfering with outlook closing
properly. changes stay in memory for the cache (and some other files) and
are written only when outlook closes. When outlook doesn't close properly,
the file ends up corrupted and recreated when outlook opens next time.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips:
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Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
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"Eric Law" wrote in message
...
Update:

Ran SpyBot on the machine, it found a number of spyware programs. Removed
them, and the Outlook problem went away!

Eric

"Eric Law" wrote in message
...
Hello!

I'm trying to troubleshoot a weird problem with Outlook 2003 for someone
in my company.

This morning, seemingly out of the blue (nothing was intentionally
changed on her machine), the dropdown with recently-used email addresses
that appears when you start typing in the "to" box on a new message has
disappeared.

Anyone ever seen this before, and/or any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

Eric Law




 




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