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Closing Multiple Instances

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bobdydd - 21 May 2006 21:59 GMT
Hi Everybody

Apologies if you have seen this before, I posted it in the Access group
which was probably the wrong place

Windows XP, Access 2000, Outlook 2000

I am looking for a way to Close All Instances of Microsoft Outlook,
with VBA.

Both the "Seen One" and the unseen ones that you see when
you do a Ctrl Alt Del, and see them all sitting there in the task
manager.

I would like to have a Command Button that shuts them all.

There must be a way to do it because this neat little software product
called knockout does just that.
http://sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout/


Regards Bob
Roady [MVP] - 21 May 2006 23:10 GMT
When you have multiple instance running at a time it means that there is
already something wrong with your configuration. A proper configuration of
Outlook does not allow running multiple instances of the outlook.exe process
and will be nicely shut down when you close Outlook. Your request isn't a
solution for your problem but a good way to corrupt your Outlook data
(especially when running with a pst-file).

The real solution lies in one of the following;
-make sure Outlook is up to date
-make sure all your add-ins are up to date and compatible with Outlook 2000
-check Outlook behavior when started with the /safe switch

For additional solutions see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/outlookdoesntclose.htm

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Hi Everybody

Apologies if you have seen this before, I posted it in the Access group
which was probably the wrong place

Windows XP, Access 2000, Outlook 2000

I am looking for a way to Close All Instances of Microsoft Outlook,
with VBA.

Both the "Seen One" and the unseen ones that you see when
you do a Ctrl Alt Del, and see them all sitting there in the task
manager.

I would like to have a Command Button that shuts them all.

There must be a way to do it because this neat little software product
called knockout does just that.
http://sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout/

Regards Bob
bobdydd - 22 May 2006 00:19 GMT
Hi Thanks for the reply, but I am using this program called
knockout.exe that does exactly whats required

http://sunflowerhead.com/software/knockout/

It looks to be written in vb but I can't see any ay of looking at the
code.
DL - 22 May 2006 00:56 GMT
As Roady states, if you have multiple instances shown in task mngr,
something is wrong with your OL installation/configuration
Ignore that and risk a total corruption of your OL profile

> Hi Thanks for the reply, but I am using this program called
> knockout.exe that does exactly whats required
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> It looks to be written in vb but I can't see any ay of looking at the
> code.
 
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