I have office 2003 installed on my asus laptop with windows xp. When I X out of outlook it continues to check my email every 3 minutes. It is set to send and receive every 3 minutes but it is only supposed to check while outlook is open. I went to my task manager and found that outlook.exe is still running after i X out. I compared it to another computer and outlook.exe is not in the task manager once you X out of outlook. All office and windows updates are done and this is a fresh copy of XP SP2 installed on this laptop. Please help. Thanks...Is Outlook in your startup folder ? ?No, startup is actually empty. I usually wipe the computer clean and start over about every 6 to 10 MONTHS. Kind of particular about what i put on it. This has me confused. Strange indeed.
I personally use ThunderBird so i won't venture any uneducated guesses here.
Soybean one of our Resident Outlook Guru's may be along shortly THOUGH...
Sorry.
For now you could just use Task Manager to kill the process...Thanks for trying.you rang?

yeah, i think i know.

Press alt+ctrl+S (TOOLS > send recieve settings > Define S/R groups)

down the bottom you have the send and recieve options when outlook is offline.

tick the top box and unselect the bottom box.

You could even try ticking the send when outlook closes automatically box (bottom box of online send/recieve options)

then it will send all mail you have made in the PAST 3 MINS and it wont try to keep sending any unsent mail after it closes.

You must be able to make it not run in the background after it closes. Just found out mine runs in background after closing at work . So im working on that now It sounds like Outlook is still running even when you close the app.

Try clicking file and than close and log off. Don't just "X" out of it. Than open the task manager and look at the processes running. See if Outlook.exe is still running.