Our next step will be to disable your Add-Ins (see instructions in the next section) and finally restart Outlook.

Go ahead and select the default one, then hit OK.

Now, you’ll need to go ahead and select a profile for Outlook.

Then, go ahead and type: Outlook /safe.Assuming you are on Windows 10, hit on the Search Windows magnifying glass and type Run (or Start and the Run in Windows 7). We’ll safe launch Outlook using the Run command line application.That is accomplished in the so-called Outlook safe mode. In order to start troubleshoot this we need to be able to launch Outlook without the add-ins firing up. These add-ins extend the functionality of Outlook to allow you (for example) to interact with PDF files, integrate with OneNote, work with SharePoint, launch a Skype meeting, etc’.īy all means, this is a common Outlook problem, which you should be able to handle. Thanks for the question, indeed a tricky one to troubleshoot online, but we’ll definitely try 🙂įirst and foremost, i would assume that you are using Outlook 2019, although fixing this issue for earlier versions won’t be majorly different.Īs you mentioned that the Outlook login dialog came up and stayed for a while, we’ll start out troubleshooting by looking into into any Outlook COM add-ins that are installed in your system and for some reason are not firing correctly causing Outlook to hang up when starting up. Any pointers on how to recover my Outlook access are appreciated up-front.

If it helps, a friend mentioned i should be using a specific command to launch a clean Outlook instance so that the installation can be repaired. I am using a Windows PC if that’s helpful for your troubleshooting this. the login window comes up and stays for a while and then an error message stating that “the Outlook Window can’t open” comes up.

Here’s an issue i just encountered: After launching Microsoft Outlook 365 to access my email i get stuck. One reader sent us the following question:

Outlook 2019 only opens in safe mode