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Outlook to power users: drop dead

August 19, 2005 17:31:52.875

We have ways of downgrading your machine: better not try to use Outlook 2003 on a machine with more than 1 GB of RAM - MS can't count that high:

Still no luck there, though. I had to do a Google search to find the relevant page on MSN. There I find the "cause" of my tribulations (emphasis mine): If you are using Outlook 2003, and have more than 1GB of RAM available on your machine, you may encounter problems with Outlook. This is a known issue in Outlook, and a fix for this will be available shortly from the Outlook team. To avoid this problem, you can remove memory so that your computer has 1GB or less of RAM, or you can disable memory above 1GB.

Shades of "640k is enough for anyone" :)

Comments

[Sriram Krishnan] August 20, 2005 5:50:40.476

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;900628

Never seen this problem

[ Troy Brumley] August 22, 2005 9:06:13.253

Comment by Troy Brumley

The office PC has 2 gig of RAM, and I have no problems. From looking at the KB article, the situation that causes the problem seems pretty specific.

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