How can I find more information about why Outlook crashed?
In the Event Viewer you can often find out more information about why Outlook crashed. The Event Viewer is a general location in Windows itself where applications and Windows can write status events when for instance a service is started/stopped, an application is launched or closed, if a backup was successful, who logged on to the system, etc… It also contains events for when an application unexpectedly stopped or crashed.
Open Event Viewer
There are quite a few number of ways to open it. Some of them are;
- Start-> Run; eventvwr
- Start-> Control Panel (classic mode)-> Administrative Tools-> Event Viewer
- Start-> Control Panel (Windows XP)-> Performance and Maintenance-> Event Viewer
- Start-> Control Panel (Windows Vista)-> System and Security-> Event Viewer
- Start-> Control Panel (Windows 7)-> System and Maintenance-> Event Viewer
- Right click on (My) Computer is the Start Menu or in Explorer and choose Manage.
Expand System Tools to see Event Viewer.
- C:\Windows\System32\eventvwr.msc
- In Windows Vista and Windows 7;
Start-> type; Event Viewer
