Please follow the guides in order as they are ordered by likelihood of success. Note: Keep in mind that some methods are specific to certain Outlook versions, and may not work on yours. Below you have a collection of methods that will help you get rid of the “Processing” error in Outlook. So does your Outlook hang or freeze at “Processing” when you open it? There are a lot of potential fixes for this issue. However, you need to prepare yourself for an extensive troubleshooting session.īut before we get to the fixes, let’s go through the most common causes that will cause this bug to appear:
Luckily, there are a lot of methods that proved to be successful in dealing with this bug.
Since it only affects a tiny percent of the huge Outlook user base, Microsoft has not yet released a solid fix that deals with this issue entirely. But this method is only a temporary fix and has been proved to be ineffective for the vast majority of users that are dealing with this issue. Some users have managed to get around this issue by closing Outlook from Task Manager and re-opening it again.
