How To Clear The Microsoft Outlook Auto Complete Cache In The E-Mail Message Window

Outlook maintains a list that is used by both the automatic name checking feature and the auto completion feature. The nickname list is generated automatically as you use Outlook. If the nickname cache is corrupted, Outlook may be unable to identify recipients, may offer incorrect recipients when automatically completing the email address, or enter their email address only instead of the name as it is saved in your Contacts.

There are several ways to resolve this, depending on the version of Office. 

If you are using Outlook 2010, 2007, or 2003 click here. This will take you to Microsoft's website to download a "Fix It" Tool that will repair the issue for you.

If you are are using Outlook 2013 open up Outlook and follow these steps:

1.  In the Outlook main window, click the File menu, then click the Options button.

2. In the Options window, click the Mail tab and browse to the Send Messages section. Click the Empty Auto-Complete List button.

3. A confirmation box will appear, click Yes. That's it!

Error 404 Not Found - It Still Happens

This is still one of the leading calls that I get today (2014): "I tried to go to this website and I got a Error 404 Not Found. Is there something wrong with my computer?"

The answer: Not likely. 

An "Error 404 Not Found" is a HTTP status code that typically results from you the user trying to reach a webpage that does not exist on the server. This could have occurred for a variety of reasons, but the most likely are:

• the website address or URL was entered incorrectly
• the host has moved the page another location or URL.

Firstly, I would suggest trying to refresh the page pressing F5 or hitting the reload symbol on your browser. If this doesn't work look closely at the address in the address bar: is there an extra period or space that look out of place? See in the example how there is two periods before the html. This can cause a 404 error, as there should be only one period before the file extension.

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If the host has moved the page, you just need to find the new URL. This is especially common if you bookmarked a specific page, and the host decided to switch systems. This may cause the file structure to change and thus the URL would no longer be valid. The best way to find the new URL would to be to proceed to the directory homepage and search from there. 

Other solutions:

If these 2 solutions did not work you can try to:

• Clear your browser's file cache
• Clear your browser's cookies