Dealing with error “Cannot start the reminder service” in Outlook

Using MS Outlook as your emails client is a great experience, as no other email client is as features rich and expedient as this. However, problems are everywhere and MS Outlook is also not an exception to this. There can be various unforeseen issues that may affect your work flow. Unpredictable and incomprehensible error messages are one of them. Let us discuss one such error message, its reason and solution in this blog.

Sometimes while working with MS Outlook you receive an error message saying:

“Cannot start the reminder service. Unable to show reminders”.

As clear by the error message there is something wrong with the reminder service of your MS Outlook. However, resolving this error is not that complicated but what if you get another error message saying: “An unknown error has occurred. 0X80040600”?

Now the problem has become more complicated, as due to these error messages you may face problems in sending or receiving messages. Reason behind occurrence of these error messages can be damaged or corrupt Outlook folders. And due to this Outlook fails to show reminders and show above mentioned error messages.

To resolve this issue, you will need to clean he reminder items. To do so, follow these simple steps:

• Click Start and then Search or Find

• Click ‘Files and Folders’, type ‘Outlook.exe’ in the named box and press ENTER

• Note the full path of ‘Outlook.exe’ and close the box

• Click ‘Start’ and then ‘Run’

• Type the full path of ‘Outlook.exe’ (as noted above), press SPACEBAR, type ‘/’ (the forward slash) and then command-line switch ‘Cleanreminders’ to delete the reminders

Once reminder items are cleaned up, this problem will automatically get resolved. However, if in any case, this solution does not work for you, then try out tools to fix Outlook. Tools to fix outlook are beneficial in resolving issues related to PST corruption or damage, as they repair the PST file and recover all available email items from it.

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