“Outlook stuck on loading profile” is one of the most common errors or issues faced by Outlook users. If the issue persists many times on your system then you need to try some of the very easy and simple measures or fixes to resolve this issue.
Common Causes of “Outlook Stuck on Loading Profile” issue
There are some of the most common causes for the issue is as follows:
- There can be due to the connectivity issue with Outlook.
- May be due to the Corrupted User Profile.
- Can be because of the issue in accessing Profile due to restricted permission.
- Due to the Outlook trying of accessing the updates online and then failing to do so.
- It can also be due to the issue with the Add-ins
- May be due to the Corrupted PST file.
Therefore, Let’s discuss the fixes for the issue below.
How To resolve technically “Outlook Stuck on Loading Profile” Issue?
Some of the techniques to fixes available to resolve the outlook issues are as follows:
End the process in the Task Manager and try disabling the Outlook Presence Feature
Ending the process from the Task manager and further by disabling the ‘Outlook Presence feature ‘will help in fixing the issue;
End the process in the Task Manager
· Open the Task Manager.
· Find the MS-office processes in the processes tab
· Select the MS-office processes and click on the end task option; repeat the steps for all the office processes.
Disable the “Outlook presence feature”
Now check if the outlook works or not. If it works then now disable the “Outlook presence feature” as follows:
- Open the Outlook
- Select the “File” then “options” and then choose the “people”
- Scroll down to the “Online status and Photographs” uncheck the following options:
“Display online status next to the name”
“Show user photographs when available (requires restarting Outlook)”
- Save the settings by clicking OK, and restart Outlook to check if the issue resolves or not.
Open the Outlook in the Safe Mode and also disable the Add-ins
Open the Outlook in the Safe Mode
- Press the “Windows + R” to open the Run window and type the “Outlook /safe” and click on OK. It will open Outlook in safe mode.
· Now, the “Choose Profile” will appear and confirm the profile name and click on OK.
Disable the Add-ins
After opening the Outlook in the safe mode, now disable add-ins to solve the issues:
- Open Outlook and click on the “File” option.
- Open the “Options” tab and open the “Add-ins”.
- Now, on the Manage tab, click on the “COM Add-ins” option.
- Uncheck all the boxes and click on OK.
- Now reopen the Outlook and if the issue is fixed, then enable the add-ins one by one to check which one causes the problem and then accordingly disable the same.
Run the Outlook as an Administrator option
- Find the MS Outlook icon and click right on the icon.
- Click on the “Run as administrator” option from the list.
- Click on the Yes to confirm the option. Now check if the issue resolves or not as running the outlook with the administrator right will most likely resolve the issue.
Try deactivating “Outlook Compatibility Preferences”
- Open the Outlook shortcut.
- Click on the outlook Properties.
- It will open the “outlook.exe Properties page” then click on the Compatibility option.
- In the Compatibility tab now uncheck the item as the “Run this program in compatibility mode” option.
- Click on the apply option and then close the tab.
Now check if it helps in resolving the issue.
Reset the Navigation Panel
- Press the Windows + R keys together.
- After the run box appears now type “outlook.exe/resetnavpane” and click on Enter.
- It will help in resetting the Navigation Panel and will fix the issues.
Try Creating the New Outlook Profile
If any of the measures do not work for you then simply try by creating a new outlook profile as it will help in resolving the issue.
Conclusion
If nothing works for your ‘Outlook stuck on loading profile’ error. It may be due to the corruption of the Outlook data file (.pst). You can use Microsoft’s built-in which will use the ‘ScanPST.exe’ to fix the .pst file. It will help in resolving the error.
