"Frenchy" wrote in message ...
_adrian wrote:
I'm running Outlook 2003 on XP Pro, and recently when I exit
outlook either via the X in the corner or File - Exit, the program
disappears from my desktop and systray, but actually remains TSR as
a running process. ...

Do you have the Google Search Bar installed? As soon as I
uninstalled that, it got rid of this problem

The OP was asking about Outlook, not about Internet Explorer.