Disabling RSS Integration

[Daren May]

Greets all,

Back in BETA I imported a large OPML into Outlook 2007 - big mistake - what
a resource hog that turned out to be! So since then, I have been trying to
stop Outlook 2007 from churning through the feeds, eating all my
resources... Essentially I just want to turn off RSS. As to how do I know
that Outlook 2007 is churning through RSS feeds? If I run the SysInternal /
TechNet tool ProcMon, I see OUTLOOK.EXE repeatedly hitting the following
registry keys:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS\IgnoreTTL
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS\DisableRoaming
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS\EnableFullTextHTML
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\RSS\EnableAttachments

The steps I have taken thus far to try and prevent this are:

1. Tools -> Account Settings -> RSS Feeds: delete all the accounts there...
Some just keep coming back...
2. Tools -> Options -> Others - Advanced Options -> Sync RSS Feeds to the
Common Feed List - un-checked
3. C:\Users\Daren.May\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Feeds - Deleted all feed files
and the feed db
4. Tried deleting all of the feeds from the RSS Subscriptions folder - some
would delete, others would fail saying I had insufficient security
privileges
5. Using OWA, deleted the RSS Subscriptions folder

Regardless, OUTLOOK.EXE keeps taking all my free processor resource and
Process Monitor shows it constantly churning through the above registry
keys...

Any clues?

 

[Daren May]

Hey all,

As is always the way, as soon as you post, you work out what to do to fix
it... Deleting the folder in OWA copied all of the RSS feeds to deleted
items as expected. However, OWA did not empty the deleted items folder...
once I emtied the folder from Outlook, I, at last, have a quiescent disk and
some spare processing capacity

If nothing else, I hope my post will help someone else