{"id":1765,"date":"2022-02-15T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T05:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcvita.com\/blog\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T11:04:46","slug":"microsoft-outlook-keeps-freezing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcvita.com\/blog\/microsoft-outlook-keeps-freezing-up.html","title":{"rendered":"What to Do When Microsoft Outlook Keeps Freezing Up? \u2013 Here\u2019s the Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does your Microsoft Outlook email keep freezing or hang while sending an email or typing a message?<\/p>\n

User Query – “I have bought Microsoft Office Suite<\/strong> a month ago. Everything was going fine and I have around 2000 emails stored in my Outlook. But now my Microsoft Outlook keeps freezing up<\/strong>. I do not know how to get rid of that spinning wheel as it becomes impossible to works. Can anybody help me out? Any help will be highly appreciated.” <\/em><\/div>\n

If this problem cannot be resolved by restarting the MS Outlook, then some other troubleshooting workarounds are required to fix MS Outlook gets freeze glitch. In this technical post, we are going to show some techniques that can use to fix Outlook freezing issue.<\/p>\n

Best 2 Methods to Solve Microsoft Outlook Keeps Freezing Up Issue<\/h2>\n

In this section, the topmost approaches are mentioned that can fix an unexpected hang or crash problem in the Microsoft Outlook application. So, let\u2019s get started!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Method #1: Repair Office Application<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this solution, any type of error in the Microsoft Office program gets fixed automatically. By doing this, Outlook’s freezing problem can be resolved. Below is the procedure that you need to follow.<\/p>\n

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  1. Close all the Office applications that are running on the system.<\/li>\n
  2. Go to the Control Panel and select Programs >> Features<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  3. Select Office package from the list of programs that you want to repair and choose Change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Once you have done with the above instructions, start your MS Outlook and verify whether Microsoft Outlook keeps freezing up or not. Still, the issue is not resolved, then switch to the next workaround.<\/p>\n

    Method #2: Corruption Issues in Outlook Data File<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It can be possible that the local default storage file of Microsoft Outlook becomes oversized and creates a freeze problem in it. The Personal Storage Table (or .pst) file is used to store the copy of complete Outlook data into the local drive. However, this file has some size limitations, and whenever it reaches its maximum limit; the PST file gets corrupted and creates a different type of problem in Outlook such as hang problems.<\/p>\n

    Basically, there are two workarounds that can fix corruption issues in the Outlook file. Both of them are mentioned below.<\/p>\n

    Approach 1: Use of Inbox Repair Tool<\/h2>\n

    Inbox Repair utility also named as SCANPST.EXE<\/strong>. It is an inbuilt application that is provided by Microsoft. Its major function is to diagnose the corruption in the .pst file and repair it so that Microsoft Outlook keeps freezing up does not occur continuously. But sometimes the ScanPST does not respond and is unable to repair the PST corruption. So the question is that what to do when ScanPST does not work<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    In most, cases this happens due to wrong steps so in order to do it in the right way go through the below steps in order to use Inbox Repair Tool.<\/p>\n

    1. Initially, close the Outlook application if it is opened and navigate to one of its locations according to the version.<\/p>\n