Troubleshoot Outlook Crashes When Opening Folder Issue

One of the prime reasons behind the immense popularity of Outlook is its ability to manage and organize the send and received mails in the mailbox files in a very organized way. Various menus, tools and folders helps the user to access the mailbox information in a very simplified way. However, in some weired situation, it has been observed that Outlook crashes out of no where. Many often, you might have faced that your Outlook crashes when opening folder. While accessing a particular folder in mailbox, an error message blink on the screen and suddenly Outlook hangs up or crashes.

The could be multiple reasons behind this issue. When there is corruption in first message or view of that particular folder, or corruption in the pst file then you may notice that your Outlook crashes when opening folder. In order to fix the issue, first of all try to open that particular folder in Safe mode.

• For Windows XP
  
• Start-> Run; outlook.exe /safe
• For Windows Vista and Windows 7
  
• Start-> type; outlook.exe /safe

If there is corruption in Outlook message or view then,after deleting the message or resetting the view settings, Outlook folder get opened. Restart your Outlook and then you can easily access that folder then onward. However, the major problems lies when the pst file is corrupted. In such case, you may take help of inbox pst repair tool to fix the corruption. However, this is not easy because scanpst.exe is a hidden file and you must know its exact location to run it. More ever, if the corruption is very severe or is occurring due to over sized pst file then this inbox repair tool seems to be useless.

If all the above mentioned steps fails to fix Outlook crashes when opening folder issue, then the final solution is to use the automatic pst repair tool to fix the corruption in pst file and make all the Outlook accessible all again. The contemporary tool can repair all kind of corruption in pst file in no time.