I wish I knew how to quit you - 2
Nope, not another ramble on about Brokeback Mountain 
- this one’s about my employer’s dimwit IT dept.
Every day come time to go home, I start shutting down apps in preparation for switching off my PC (wouldn’t want to be caught by the energy efficiency police leaving a monitor or something on! *gasp*) and everything shuts down nicely except for M$ Outlook. Now despite my work PC being afflicted with only 256Mb RAM (sucks big time when you’ve had half a dozen apps open all day, as is my habit) it’s nothing to do with the shortcomings of my machine, as everyone else in the office’s is behaving in a similar fashion, so the dimwit IT dept’s obviously been playing around with something, and don’t seem to be in any sort of a hurry to fix it.
So there I am…Outlook: File > Exit….wait….and wait…and wait! And nothing happens. Not a sausage. Experience has taught me that to avoid the waiting and waiting and total inaction, the best course of action is Ctrl + Alt + Del > End program…but even then the damned things takes it’s time over shutting down. It’s no laughing matter when you’re trying to get yourself and your baggage up to the clock machine to ensure you’re outside promptly on time for your transport home.
*sigh* M$ Outlook, I wish I knew how to quit you!
JackP responds:
Posted: February 11th, 2008 at 11:06 pm →
At least you try to switch it off. I know plenty of people who don’t.
Personally, while I don’t generally have any problems with outlook (although intriguingly, I seem to recall outlook used to take forever to log out - sitting with a little ‘closing down’ type box in the middle of the screen for ages), I always fall back on the two old trusty techniques if necessary:
1. Task manager - end process
if that doesn’t work…
2. hold in power button until computer switches off
Gill responds:
Posted: February 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pm →
I have a much better approach to Outlook and all its problems. I use Thunderbird instead.
Not that that will help you on the work front of course.