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    Why is Outlook 2007 running out of memory?

    Why is Outlook 2007 running out of memory?
    I am using a Thinkpad T60P laptop with 2GB of memory and 120GB harddrive. (Harddrive has about 60GB free). I am running WinXP with SP3.

    Whenever I attempt to start Outlook I get an error message that pops up that tells me that I am "...out of memory or system resources". I cannot expand my folders, I cannot move folders. I basically cannot do anything or I get an out of memory error.

    Outlook is the only application listed as running on the Application tab in the Task Manager.
    I have two .pst files: one is 1,009K and the other is 324,937K which are obviously small-ish .pst files.
    (I am running 3 .pst files on my desktop (that only has 512MB of memory) that are all larger than 1,000,000K and I get no problems at all--although I am using Outlook 2003 on the desktop).

    I have run an AV scan and have no virus. I have also run Ad-Aware, Spybot, and MalWareByte's Anti-Malware and have no mal-ware.

    Is there a setting in Outlook that I have somehow overlooked? I am running the Business Contact Manager in Outlook but this system should have more than enough memory to handle Outlook running by itself?
    What am I missing. Please help me as I am aggravated byond belief at this point.
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    Guessing that it does it after a reboot?

    Look in ->C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Temp

    Having a TON of files in this temp folder has been known to cause out of mem errors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve R Jones View Post
    Guessing that it does it after a reboot?

    Look in ->C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\Temp

    Having a TON of files in this temp folder has been known to cause out of mem errors.
    I have about a dozen files totally about 4,000K?
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    MAPI: ShowForm Causes Out-Of-Memory Error From Outlook
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241566/en-us
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