Tired of your Outlook’s slow performance, unwanted reminders popping up, or feeling that your calendar is messed up? Here are few tips and tricks that would help your cause. This article is intended for Windows 7 and Outlook 2010, however some of these commands might work on XP and Vista and other Outlook versions.
* Exit your Outlook and communicator before running the command line switches, also try to check in task manager that there isn’t any outlook.exe or communicator.exe running.
** Some of the commands may completely wipe off or delete your outlook settings so try at your own risk and with proper back up.
You can use either one of the 3 options for command line switches:
1) Open the Run command via Start-> Run
2) Press the Windows Logo + R on your keyboard
3) Open the Start Menu and use the Search field to type in for the next step.(see the pic)
1. Too many reminders keep popping on your on screen, try this command line to clear all the reminders and regenerate them.
outlook /cleanreminders
2. Messed up with the Views, or new mails aren’t showing up in bold or facing similiar issues try the next command line switch.
outlook /cleanviews
3. Want to clean up all the rules and start off with new ones then try this
outlook /cleanrules
4. Want to start Outlook with reading pane off then use this switch
outlook /nopreview
5. Want to reset folder names to outlook default . It will only reset names of default Outlook folders not the folders created by you.
outlook /resetfoldernames
6. Reset ToDO bar task list
outlook /resettodobar
7. In order to load Outlook for a specific profile try using this, here profilename is name of your profile
outlook /profile “profilename”
8. Clear all the free busy information that might be slowing up Outlook
outlook /cleanfreebusy
9. Clear all the duplicate reminder messages
outlook /cleansniff
10. Want to run outlook as like the first time run
outlook /firstrun
11. Restore missing folders for default delivery location
outlook /resetfolders
12. Starts Outlook without extensions, Reading Pane, or toolbar customization.
outlook /safe
Happy trobleshooting
