OL2000: Outlook Quits with an Access Violation When You Click 'Exit' or 'Exit and Log Off'

Outlook 2000 may quit with an access violation when you click Exit or Exit and Log Off on the File menu if the following circumstances are true:

• You started Outlook 2000 by using the Windows 32-bit application programming interface (API) ShellExecute() or CreateProcess() functions. -and-
  
  
• You are running Outlook 2000 in Corporate Workgroup (CW) mode.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: After the hotfix is installed, the English version of this fix will have the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel. After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:
NOTE: Before you install this hotfix, you must update Outlook 2000 to at least Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP-1).

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3).