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Opened Sep 21, 2025 by Jack Mailey@jack82h3232400
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Outlook Stuck on Loading Profile? Here's How to Resolve It

It can automatically diagnose issues, troubleshoot, and fix problems with Outlook. A more general version that can also fix Office, Microsoft 365, Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile and other Outlook problems can be found here. When you try to accept a shared Outlook.com calendar using your Microsoft 365 for business account in Outlook 2016, you might receive the "Something went wrong" error or your sign-in might fail. If you typically use an Outlook.com account for email, this issue can occur if there are multiple aliases on the account and the 3rd party email address is the primary alias.

One such issue is when you are stuck on loading your Outlook profile and the set of folders cannot be opened. It’s too frustrating because you can’t even use the app and find out what’s wrong with it. Are you experiencing profile loading issues in Outlook?

These applications and services can interfere with Outlook. A Selective Startup or "clean boot" process can help you identify problems that are caused by application conflicts. Corrupted PST or OST data files can prevent Outlook from loading. Microsoft’s ScanPST tool can repair minor corruption; more severe cases Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile may require deleting and rebuilding the data file.

If you need to increase the number of this limit try the next resolution. Step 1 - The hard limit of recipients for a single email message is 300. Reduce the number of recipients for a single email to less than 300. Step 2 - Follow these instructions to install your Office application. Step 1 - Follow these instructions to uninstall your Office applications. If Outlook Desktop fails to connect, try these steps before escalating the issue to the ET&S Help Desk.

To determine whether this problem is caused by a corrupted user profile, create a user profile to see whether the problem still occurs when you use the new profile. When you start Windows normally, several applications and services start automatically and then run in the background. These applications and services can interfere with Outlook. A Selective Startup or "clean boot" process can help you identify problems that are caused Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile by application conflicts.

Bookmark this page so that whenever you come across an error like your Outlook calendar not syncing, or a corrupted file, you'll have a place to start troubleshooting. If you manually type in the secondary connected account email address in the "From" field, the email is sent as "On behalf of" your primary Outlook.com account. Availability has recovered, and engineers are investigating the root cause and identifying problematic servers. The team is sweeping all remaining capacity to identify and address residual issues. You can use the Inbox Repair tool (SCANPST.EXE) to diagnose and repair errors in your Outlook data file. The Inbox Repair tool checks the Outlook data files on Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile your computer to see if they're in good shape.

Follow the steps below to disable Outlook’s compatibility mode. You may face issues in loading Outlook Profile if you lack Administrative privileges. Must open Outlook with the administrative privileges (Run as Admin). Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support.

For more information, see Outlook performance issues when there are too many items or folders in a cached mode .ost or .pst file. When you install Office, an Inbox Repair Tool (SCANSPST.EXE) is also installed on your PC. The Inbox Repair Tool can resolve issues by scanning your Outlook data files and repairing errors. Resolving Outlook’s "Loading Profile" hang involves a mix of system checks, process management, and profile or data file repair. Applying these targeted steps gets Outlook running smoothly and restores access to your mailbox.

To check if you have received the fix, review your contact list to confirm duplicates have been removed. To help you get rid of these duplicates, we have released a fix which will automatically clean up your contact list. This fix will clean up duplicate contacts for end users starting August 9, 2023. Rollout of the fix to all users will take few weeks, so, some users may see the fix applied by the end of September.

Large cache is often the cause of corruption, reduce the risks by reducing the size of the cache. For more information about performing a clean boot, see How to perform a clean boot in Windows. For a list of antivirus software vendors, see Consumer antivirus software providers for Windows. Outlook stores certain data, such as email signatures and the spelling checker dictionary, in the AppData folder. If the network is performing slowly, Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile Outlook must wait for read and write operations to the AppData directory to finish.

Errors in Microsoft 365 files are Fix Outlook Stuck On Loading Profile repaired automatically. To start Outlook in safe mode, click on its icon holding the Ctrl key, or enter outlook.exe /safe in the Run dialog box. You'll see a message asking you to confirm that you really want to start Outlook in Safe mode, click Yes. If you have email messages in an email program, you must import your email messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. If everything is working correctly, you can now delete the old profile. I have found that when this happens its due to the Account in windows needing to be updated.

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