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I have Outlook 2016 on my home computer. Within the last few weeks, on reopening Outlook, I have received the message "Outlook closed while you had items open . Reopen these items from your last session ?".
I have tried to remove this function via File; Options; General; Start up options, but my Start up options title does not have a drop down menu !
I have opened and reopened the Options menu, but to no avail. Nor is there an option to press on the heading "Start up options" which is located between Privacy Settings and Attachment options
I'm sure that I must have closed Outlook in the past without closing all items, but this message has only begun appearing within the last week.
Is there a fix?
Using classic Outlook for Windows in business environments
Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.
Hello CSG-08
Good Day!
How are you?
I am just doing a follow up. If you tried to follow the suggestion of the other community member? Is the issue still continue? Please confirm.
I would like to extend my heart felt gratitude to all community members who interacted to this thread. Highly appreciated.
Regards,
Jason Guer
Microsoft Community Moderator
I feel comfortable saying that most of us do not want to take a risk by manually going in and changing the registry. Since the bug introduced with 2306 is not limited to Outlook 2016 I would hope MS resolves quickly. I'm trying to avoid the aggravation by simply not closing Outlook, but out of habit click on the X. Also when any of my software, not just Microsoft, installs an automatic update the system reboots and I'm back to square one with the message and start up option not available.
Good Morning Jason,
I have not attempted, what for me, seemed like quite complex solutions to the problem, as suggested by some members ~ but I have settled for simply accepting the issue until a solution is devised by Microsoft.
On some occasions I have specifically confirmed that no message boxes have been left open before closing Outlook yet that annoying question reappears upon reopening next time ~ When opting for "yes" in those situations, I have found that two inboxes appear. One is as expected, whilst the other displays only the left side of the historic messages.
Very strange.
For what it's worth, I am experiencing the same issue.
It's extremely annoying!
Microsoft: Please fix.
Thanks!
John
For what it's worth, I am experiencing the same issue.
It's extremely annoying!
Microsoft: Please fix.
Thanks!
John