Outlook oddities!

[jigsawpuzzl]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but has anyone had any odd behaviour with Microsoft Outlook (I have it as part of 2007 Office). I have had lots of other oddities with my new pc (and this was the 2nd new pc since April with odd behaviour though the 62 bit kept crashing...) and it is now on its 3rd hard drive since the end of July when I got it...The Outlook issues are minor but I wondered if they are "common" or there is something clashing etc within my pc (Windows 7, 32 bit quad processor)
1. I have had duplicates of reminders (especially birthdays) come up which I put down to user error when combining 2 pst files after rebuilds..
2. It sometimes opens twice with only one click to the icon on my task bar
3. I was deleting old emails today and 3 turned up as spam in my spam folder....

Any info gratefully received as I don't know if I should be concerned or not...!
I can give more infor re programs and the pc is needed...

Thanks

 

[Nibiru2012]

I can assuredly tell you that it's not Windows 7 that is causing your hard drives to go bad on you. You've just had a string of bad luck regarding hard drives and I'm sorry to hear that. Personally I've only had two hard drives go bad on me in 10 years.

Perhaps someone more familiar with Outlook can help you with those issues. I don't use it because I never liked it from day one.

You state you're on the second new PC since April. Were these "factory-built" such as an HP or Dell or whatever?

What issues have you had with the 64-bit Windows 7?

Some more info will help... Thanks.

 

[jigsawpuzzl]

Any Outlook specialists out there?!

Thanks Nibiru- I didn't really think it was windows 7 itself that caused the problems with the hard drives...I just don't know what has been causing the oddities...and no one else has sussed it either yet!
The first pc was a Dell quad processor windows 7 64 bit. After 3 months of the Dell remote support team not being able to make it perform securely we finally settled out of court for a refund (of the pc and the support packages that I'd taken out for them to fix it). That pc crashed and froze a lot often on Photoshop Elements 8 (as well as lots of other miscelleneous things). This pc is locally built with AsRock(?) Windows 7 32 bit (as I was told 32 bit was more stable). Both pcs have 4 GB ram, 1 Tb hard drvie and are/were quad processors. Tha last hard drive in the local pc was a green Western (which replaced a hard drive that came with the original "gaming" pc) and this is a black caviar Western - their best apparently. I'm HOPING this will be stable having picked it up yesterday but had the oddities in Outlook today and as in the past with this pc problems have often built cumulatively over time until more serious things happen (eg. trouble booting, operation freezes etc) I wondered if I should be concerned over the odd behaviour of Outlook. I know pcs do odd things sometimes...but I'm very nervous afte so many rebuilds and hard drives etc. I have Netgear wireless adaptor for my internet - which was switched recently to run in compatability mode with Windows 7 rather than the Netgear recommended settings. My printer is not plugged in since the pc came back from the shop, nor are any of my external hard drives....the only "old" piece of equipment is a logitech trackman wheel (ergonomic) mouse....
Oh yes - and I did have an odd "virus?" called adware180.Solutions on this pc which was hard to remove but is not being picked up by AVG anymore following me using the full support package I took out for Virgin digital to remove it...It seemed to keep reappearing on reboot, which was very worrying....Malwarebytes did not pick it up but I know it was causing problems as eg it attached to a Clickfree program for back up reminders and that (at least) misbehaved until the Adware180.Solutions was removed.
Hope that helps?!

 

[TrainableMan]

It always amazes me why people would pay for the full version of anti-virus software when the free version missed it. The wrong anti-virus program can also cause system slow-downs and crashes. If you had a virus that is the most likely cause of "oddities".

I have and use Outlook 2007 and I don't know what would cause your first two issues but "3. I was deleting old emails today and 3 turned up as spam in my spam folder" this is your anti-virus software. This is what spam-blocker does, it interprets your emails and if they appear to be selling something or in a foreign jibberish etc it moves them to your spam folder. You can look at them there and click the link "this is not spam".

 

[jigsawpuzzl]

do you think I still have malware then?

Thanks Trainable man! The free version of the antivirus DID pick up the adware180solutions - just didn't seem able to remove it entirely..(.where as the support help seemed to)...and as I explained on my other post (in the security section) I didn't feel able to tackle the compexities of removing the virus on my own...and, having told the local shop your recommendation re rkill and microsoft security essentails and they ignored it - I was desparate and bought the AVG package!
Re the Outlook oddities then - you haven't come across oddities1 & 2 - re 3. I was deleting them, so it seems odd they would then be sent to the spam folder...and I can't remember if they were originally spam or not...anyhow that MAY be the virus checker...but are you saying you think the other errors suggest there is still some thing malware on the pc? i.e. they have occured after the new hard drive (which had info ghosted across as it was suggested that as the pc was clean and it was a hard ware issue that should be fine...) I know they are only minor points but I need to go back to AVG if no one else is getting the issues and a virus (or something) COULD still be the cause...

 

[TrainableMan]

Well I'm glad it caught the virus. We have a lot of issues here often caused by anti-virus programs and the number 1 advice is almost always delete what you have and install MSE, so it is something to consider. On the other hand many people use them with no issues but it's something to look at when you do.

Item 1, I have never set a reminder so I haven't had the experience of getting one let a known two.

Item 2, I don't keep outlook pinned to my task bar but when I did it as an experiment before I answered above, I wasn't able to duplicate your experience. If I click once I get a single occurrence and if I click twice it opens and then minimizes back to the taskbar. If I go to the start menu and click twice instead of once then there I do get two iterations of outlook running.