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Once this step is complete, the user will land in their Outlook inbox and be able to use all Outlook functionality with this new email address. You can also add the secondary connected accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) in Outlook.com as additional accounts in the Outlook profile. To access the calendar shared with your Microsoft 365 for business account, you'll need to accept the invitation from Outlook on the web, iOS, or Android.

Therefore, if you installed your Outlook application in a custom location, you'd have to substitute '-g' for the custom location. Updating your Outlook may conveniently solve the issues you're experiencing. All you need to do is to check and install any updates for the app. If Outlook won't open, you can't check your incoming messages or send an outgoing one from your desktop. If you have logged in to your @live.com email address in the last 12 months but don't remember the password, you can try the Microsoft Recovery Form.

This usually happens when you've switched versions of Outlook but your profile did not update. You can still create a new email address with @hotmail.com as the domain name. Then you are dealing with one of the many other Outlook issues. Here is a preview of common problems and what solutions we offer. If you would like a deeper explanation or step-by-step instructions, scroll down to the section covering your issue for more details. As an email client ourselves, we have a clear idea of what a desktop app can do to give you a webpage healthy relationship with email.

If you can't choose any of the menu options, type inside an email message, calendar event, or contact, Outlook may have frozen. There are three steps you can take to try to get Outlook working again. If you are having problems with Outlook, there are a few things we can help with to get you back to sending and receiving your email. A vast community of Microsoft Office365 users that are working together to support the product and others. If you are having issues sending email, this might be due to validation issues with your Microsoft Account. Some customers may not be able to see their Profile, Account or Sign Out options when selecting their picture on the top toolbar.

If you can open the original Outlook Data File, you might be able to recover additional items. The Inbox Repair tool creates a backup file with the same name as the original, but with a .bak extension, and saves it in the same folder. There may be items in the backup file that you might be able to recover that the Inbox Repair tool couldn't.

A Repair Account window will prompt you for your email address and password. Then it will run a program to diagnose the network connection problem. Add-ins are a pretty frequent culprit for Outlook lagging issues because they are meant to provide additional functionality, but they put additional pressure on loading time.

Then, each item in your calendar folder is checked for known problems that can cause unexpected behavior, such as meetings that seem to be missing. After you've selected a task, you can use the details pane to do things like add more information, add steps, or mark as important. You can view more than one calendar at a time, add other calendars, choose which calendar to display, and create new calendars. You can use the Inbox Repair tool (SCANPST.EXE) to diagnose and repair errors in your Outlook data file. The Inbox Repair tool checks the Outlook data files on your computer to see if they're in good shape. Use the People page to find, view, create, and edit contacts and contact lists.

Be aware that you may need your product key if you received one. Microsoft has its own tool for automatically scanning and correcting Office when things go awry. You can read about it and then run the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant to see if that helps. It can automatically diagnose issues, troubleshoot, and fix problems with Outlook. A more general version that can also fix Office, Microsoft 365, and other Outlook problems can be found here.

The easiest way to find out if this is the problem is to temporarily disable your antivirus software and log in to Outlook as usual. If the prompts go away, you'll know it was the antivirus software. Check your settings to see if you've got the webpage "always prompt for password" feature enabled. It could be as simple as an out-of-date version of Outlook's software. Once an update has been run on your system, the bug may be rectified.

Whether you are a Microsoft Outlook, Exchange or webpage Office 365 user, you may come across or encounter the PST files. These Outlook data (PST) files store user’s data, including email messages, calendars, tasks, journals, etc. However, if the SCANPST or Inbox Repair tool fails to repair the PST file, remember to use an advanced Outlook PST repair tool, such as Stellar Repair for Outlook. It can repair corrupt, inaccessible, or encrypted PST files of any size, with complete integrity. Remember that the backup file was the original corrupted file, and you may find that you cannot recover anything other than what was recovered in the Lost and Found folder. If you cannot import the Newname.pst file into Outlook, unfortunately you have lost all the information that is not in the Lost and Found folder.