No applications acknowledge having been opened.

When Iopen any application, it opens, but when I press command + tab, it only shows finder open. Also, the little white dot under the applications that shows that they are running doesn't come on. Is this a problem? How should I fix it?

This is not affecting anything at the moment, but its just kind of weird and Im not sure what to do...

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Message was edited by: Hyperbion

Hello Rick,
Through all the research I have done so far and talking with a few other coworkers what the common issues that cause this are is:
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Outlook Add In - Hook into delete event without having to open the email.

Is it possible to hook into the BeforeDelete command without having to open the email to fire the event. At present my code will hit the BeforeDelete event when the email is open and delete is selected, but it does not fire if deleting without opening
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/// </summary>
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