Using the Detect and Repair Option in Ms Outlook

The Outlook email client in its illustrious history

has been often tainted by its basic flaws. Its propensity to crash and throw up arcane errors have made it a nightmare for IT support teams in offices and have often caused huge grief to home users. While its features remained unmatched in its class, it is robustness that has always bothered its loyal users. Many users have complained of losing all their emails in a jiffy while others accuse it of being unresponsive. Microsoft does provide a huge amount of support for specific issues on its support website but an average user may not be able to execute the same. In this article we would look at getting the Outlook application in shape whenever we encounter an issue in a simple straight forward manner.

The Ms Outlook Client comes loaded with a powerful Detect and Repair Option that is extremely useful when you have to deal with an issue. However before initiating it you need to know the circumstances under which it is justifiable to use the feature. For the uninitiated, running the Detect and Repair option can make you lose your custom settings in Outlook. The application should ideally be brought in whenever you have encountered an Outlook crash. You can also consider running it when the application has over a period time become unwieldy and non responsive. Again in circumstances where it becomes impossible to send out emails or receive them, this sledgehammer feature can be called in.

Working with the Detect and Repair option

Please follow the steps mentioned below in order to repair the Outlook application

1. Launch the Outlook application and go to the Help tab
2. Next scroll down the Detect and Repair option and click on it
3. In the dialog box that comes up you get the choice to ask the application to discard your existing customized options
4. Once initiated the process would repair the Outlook application to its previous working state.

It is important to note that the process may take a while to complete and during it you may be called upon to provide the installation files.

The Standard Detect and Repair Option May Not Work in Many Cases

While in some cases the inbuilt detect and repair option can be very successful, in a wide variety of cases its results have been less encouraging. In case you are experiencing a PST file corruption issue then it is advisable to try out an outlook repair tool which has a higher chance of getting back your data. One of the best tools that you can find in this genre is the DataNumen Outlook Repair and it is known for its exceptional success rate. Not only can it deal with large files it also is quite capable of splitting up the extracted files into relatively small units which can be effectively managed. Once your data files have been recovered, you can reinstall the mail client, create a new profile in it and then import the recovered data.

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/