outlooks Application_startup event doesn't always fire

I found something rather odd today while playing around in outlook and I wondered if anyone else had experienced it and/or knew what caused it. I wanted to create an outlook.application object with events when outlook starts. As far as I know this should have done it:-

Public WithEvents outlook As Application

Private Sub Application_Startup()
Set outlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
End Sub

I noticed, though, that some of my events weren't firing. I added a megbox as the first command of the startup event and discovered it was only firing a fraction of the time (so the events I wrote for outlook were in turn not firing).

A colleague tells me that sometimes outlook doesn't actually close when it appears to so maybe when I restarting I wasn't really starting the app but was 'waking it up'. I don't think that's the reason though because even a after a full reboot the startup event just doesn't fire sometimes.

I've already found get arounds to do everything I want but I was curious to see if anyone knew anything about this as I'm sure it'll trouble me again sooner or later.

No idea ... possibly some sort of security is stopping the code?

You'd have to make a module of all the events, and debug.print them to the immediates window. Save n close. Restart and see which fire. close and restart the app, see what happens.

Possibly windoze/ms did something to hold it in the background, or running under something else. Who knows ;) (ms?) Have a go and see what happens. Maybe it is something which only fires once per day, and once ran it thinks it doesn't need to re-run it...

Bizarre, the startup event now seems to be firing every time. I think a gremlin's laughing at me from inside my laptop.