Something like that should work, although I'd change the NameSpace.Logon to
objNameSpace.Logon "", "", False, True or even use False for the NewSession
argument.

Of course the real solution is to create the toolbar using the Temporary =
true argument and to explicitly delete it in the Explorer.Close() event
handler.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, it is legacy code which creates
this permanent toolbar - new versions
only create the toolbar as a "temporary" toolbar. I have to work out
some way to automatically delete this permanent toolbar
during an upgrade of our software.

I am now using the following vbscript to delete the permanent toolbar.
The toolbar is deleted in the
current outlook session but at the next Outlook startup - there it is
again. Worse than the plague :-)

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Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set objNamespace = objOutlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
objNamespace.Logon "","", FALSE, TRUE

Set oCBars = objOutlook.ActiveExplorer.CommandBars
For i = oCBars.Count To 1 Step -1
   Wscript.Echo oCBars.Item(i).Name
   If oCBars.Item(i).Name = "IXOSOST" Then
       oCBars.Item(i).Delete
   End If
Next

Wscript.Echo "done"
objOutlook.Quit
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p.s. i cannot simply delete the extend.dat file as the customer has
numerous
other addIns and not much of a sense of humour...

Thanks in advance,
movalgirl

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