Fix Outlook Error "cannot start the reminder service"
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Microsoft Outlook, a full featured application which provide different facility to users like sending and storing emails, storing contacts, journals etc. Apart from these services, it also comes with one unique feature i.e. Reminder service. It is one of the most thrilling feature of outlook. With the help of this reminder technique you can easily set the alert and reminder for particular event. Once you set, it will notify you at that particular event. However, sometime users have to face inconvenience because of PST corruption. PST corruption abruptly influence the features of outlook and user get several problem while using this Application. At that critical situation you will definitely look for PST recovery software if backup is not available.
Let us understand the whole issue by taking a simple example. Suppose you had started the MS outlook Email client. Suddenly what you see some error message appear on the screen which is quite similar to below mentioned error:
"Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders."
The occurrence of the this error clearly indicate there is something went wrong with reminder service of MS outlook. I n fact if the problem is only concerned with reminder service then it can be easily fixed but sometime it is observed that this error not comes alone. After this error you will also notice another outlook error like:
"An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040600"
And occurrence of this error clearly indicate that there is some problem related with PST file. Due to this error, you fails to send or receive email messages. And sometime this error may also results into data loss.
If you get Cannot start the reminder service outlook error because of problem in reminder service then you can easily fix it by just deleting the damaged reminders. In order to delete damaged reminder you can perform below mentioned steps:
- First of all click start and then search option
- Next click files and Folders
- In the box type Outlook.exe and then press enter.
- Note full path of Outlook
- Click start and then Run
- Enter full path Of Outlook.exe, press spacebar, and type forward slash(/)
- And finally enter cleanreminder to delete them
If you are facing Cannot start the reminder service outlook error because of corrupted reminders then aforementioned step will definitely help you in fixing this problem. But in case if the problem is not resolved, then it means problem is related with PST files. In order to deal with PST problem you can try outlook inbox repair tool i.e. Scanpst.exe. This inbox repair tool will definitely solved PST related problem if there is some minor problem i.e. only the header part of PST file is damaged. But if PST file is severely damaged then this inbuilt tool also fails to sort out this issue. Now in that situation the best way is to use third party PST repair software to repair corrupted PST file. This software is well compatible and uses its advance programming technique to rectify all kind of PST problem effectively and easily. With the help of this software you can easily get rid of Cannot start the reminder service outlook error.
