A new condition on my PC has allowed the presence of multiple outlook.exe
instances, as verified by Task Manager. Outlook itself does not complain,
but any routine that includes the creation of an email message (like
Acrobat's File | Email command, or Send To Email, or my database's Send Mail
function) will return the generic "The Operation Failed" error. I must close
Outlook and manually remove all of the extra instances to clear this error.
Sometimes, there will be as many as 15 extra instances running -- it's a
miracle that Outlook itself runs normally (seemingly).

My suspicion is that the offending application is either Blackberry's
Desktop Manager or Google Calendar Sync. Can anyone verify what is going on
here and suggest a solution? Many thanks...




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Rick A.
Pleasanton CA