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Multiple instances of Outlook opening Nick Head؜wuجr,'+ 05-16-2005
Posted by Nick Head؜wuجr,'+ on May 16, 2005, 11:52 pm
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Everytime I select an email (or task, or calendar, or contact item) form my
MSN desktop search results, a new instance of Outlook opens to display that
item. Obviously rather annoying, and makes MSN Desktop search pretty
un-usable for these types of searches.

I'm running:
XP SP2
Office 2003
Latest Desktop Search (downloaded today)

Another weird thing I noticed (no idea if its related) is on my search
toolbar options dialog, under 'Desktop Search' there is an error message
"Windows Desktop Search could not be started. Please remove and reinstall MSN
Search Toolbar"

I have removed, rebooted and reinstalled, and it has not made any differences.

TIA
Nick


Posted by SonnyJim66 on May 24, 2005, 2:53 pm
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For what it's worth, I am having both of these problems too. I'm running:

Windows 2003 SP1
Office 2003
MSN Toolbar 2.01.0000.2214

Mike

"Nick Head" wrote:

> Everytime I select an email (or task, or calendar, or contact item) form my
> MSN desktop search results, a new instance of Outlook opens to display that
> item. Obviously rather annoying, and makes MSN Desktop search pretty
> un-usable for these types of searches.
>
> I'm running:
> XP SP2
> Office 2003
> Latest Desktop Search (downloaded today)
>
> Another weird thing I noticed (no idea if its related) is on my search
> toolbar options dialog, under 'Desktop Search' there is an error message
> "Windows Desktop Search could not be started. Please remove and reinstall MSN
> Search Toolbar"
>
> I have removed, rebooted and reinstalled, and it has not made any differences.
>
> TIA
> Nick


Posted by Nick Head؜wuجr,'+ on May 24, 2005, 3:17 pm
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Well I'm glad its not just me at least :-/

Although no-one else I've talked to has had this problem. I thought it might
be one of my Outlook addins screwing my installation so I uninstalled the
add-ins, repaired my Outlook installation and...... it still didn't work.

Sorry for the anti-climax.

Does no-one have any idea what this problem could be?

"SonnyJim66" wrote:

> For what it's worth, I am having both of these problems too. I'm running:
>
> Windows 2003 SP1
> Office 2003
> MSN Toolbar 2.01.0000.2214
>
> Mike
>
> "Nick Head" wrote:
>
> > Everytime I select an email (or task, or calendar, or contact item) form my
> > MSN desktop search results, a new instance of Outlook opens to display that
> > item. Obviously rather annoying, and makes MSN Desktop search pretty
> > un-usable for these types of searches.
> >
> > I'm running:
> > XP SP2
> > Office 2003
> > Latest Desktop Search (downloaded today)
> >
> > Another weird thing I noticed (no idea if its related) is on my search
> > toolbar options dialog, under 'Desktop Search' there is an error message
> > "Windows Desktop Search could not be started. Please remove and reinstall
MSN
> > Search Toolbar"
> >
> > I have removed, rebooted and reinstalled, and it has not made any
differences.
> >
> > TIA
> > Nick


Posted by MarkAtHome on June 13, 2005, 7:01 am
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I think the problem is that when you click on an Outlook-related search
result, Outlook is not being launched with the "/recycle" (sans quotes)
switch. Launching additional incarnations of Outlook is not acceptable to
me, memory-wise, so I'll be sticking with Lookout until this is addressed.

"Nick Head" wrote:

> Well I'm glad its not just me at least :-/
>
> Although no-one else I've talked to has had this problem. I thought it might
> be one of my Outlook addins screwing my installation so I uninstalled the
> add-ins, repaired my Outlook installation and...... it still didn't work.
>
> Sorry for the anti-climax.
>
> Does no-one have any idea what this problem could be?
>
> "SonnyJim66" wrote:
>
> > For what it's worth, I am having both of these problems too. I'm running:
> >
> > Windows 2003 SP1
> > Office 2003
> > MSN Toolbar 2.01.0000.2214
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > "Nick Head" wrote:
> >
> > > Everytime I select an email (or task, or calendar, or contact item) form
my
> > > MSN desktop search results, a new instance of Outlook opens to display
that
> > > item. Obviously rather annoying, and makes MSN Desktop search pretty
> > > un-usable for these types of searches.
> > >
> > > I'm running:
> > > XP SP2
> > > Office 2003
> > > Latest Desktop Search (downloaded today)
> > >
> > > Another weird thing I noticed (no idea if its related) is on my search
> > > toolbar options dialog, under 'Desktop Search' there is an error message
> > > "Windows Desktop Search could not be started. Please remove and reinstall
MSN
> > > Search Toolbar"
> > >
> > > I have removed, rebooted and reinstalled, and it has not made any
differences.
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > Nick


Posted by Nick Head؜wuجr,'+ on June 13, 2005, 3:19 pm
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I'm not sure that would be the problem. It seems to work perfectly on other
machines, just not mine. If Outlook was not being started with the recycle
switch I would think that everyone else would be experiencing this problem as
well.

In any case, this seems to be a pretty rare problem and most people that run
WDS seem more than satisfied with it. Just wish I was!

I've installed three different builds of WDS and the problem still has not
being fixed. Come on Microsoft - are you LISTENING!?!


"MarkAtHome" wrote:

> I think the problem is that when you click on an Outlook-related search
> result, Outlook is not being launched with the "/recycle" (sans quotes)
> switch. Launching additional incarnations of Outlook is not acceptable to
> me, memory-wise, so I'll be sticking with Lookout until this is addressed.


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