Monitoring your system?
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Is there a way to monitor a system and see what process is kicking off another process?
On my personal laptop about two weeks ago I setup the first profile in Outlook 2013 (Office has been installed for a year) connecting it to my O365 account. I don't recall at this point why I did that but Outlook it something I rarely use, instead I use OWA 99.9% of the time.
Shortly after setting up the Outlook profile I noticed that I was bring prompted to choose an Outlook Profile every 15-30 mins. I haven't clicked on anything that would prompt the creation of an email message.
I'm trying to track down what's causing Outlook to launch.
Thoughts?
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@Dashrender said:
Is there a way to monitor a system and see what process is kicking off another process?
On my personal laptop about two weeks ago I setup the first profile in Outlook 2013 (Office has been installed for a year) connecting it to my O365 account. I don't recall at this point why I did that but Outlook it something I rarely use, instead I use OWA 99.9% of the time.
Shortly after setting up the Outlook profile I noticed that I was bring prompted to choose an Outlook Profile every 15-30 mins. I haven't clicked on anything that would prompt the creation of an email message.
I'm trying to track down what's causing Outlook to launch.
Thoughts?
Try procmon (by sysinternals).
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Procmon is definitely a powerful tool, starting there is a good place to be.
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Check in Control Panel under Mail. See if it is set to default to a specific profile or prompt. Now why it's prompting is another story, but it's something to check.
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@thanksaj - it's set to not have a default user for Outlook - I want it that way.
What would I check in Procmon? I've looked for the Outlook.exe but it's not listed, even though the prompt to pick an Outlook profile is there.
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I changed the default for mail, checking the MAILTO option as well changing it to MS-MAIL (this picture is from my work PC - do not an exact match).
This did not solve my issue.
I booted into safe mode with networking (damn that's a pain in Windows
and left it that way all night. This morning there were no prompts to pick an Outlook profile.I'll boot back to normal mode tonight and see if the prompts return.
I looked through the task scheduler and didn't see anything that appeared to either launch Outlook or use the MAILTO option.
