is anyone else finding outlook 2007 very slow ?

[vengaman]

have no problems with the rest of office 2007 beta thus far.

However, Outlook 2007 is incredibly slow, it appears to be creating alot of
HDD activity - for no apparent reason. Having monitored CPU ustilisation,
that too is extremely high - often 100% when outlook is running. I am not
using any PST files, but generating preview window, loading of outlook,
opening emails....pretty much everything is running at painfully slow speeds.

I never had any issues with office XP pro outlook.

Am looking for any suggestions on how to alieviate the load and to speed it
all up.

the core of my rig:

AMD 4200 (2.5GhZ) 64bit CPU
ATI X1900 CF 1GB GFX
1GB RAM
3 x SATA HDDs (various sizes)

 

[Patrick Schmid]

How are you getting email then if you don't have a PST? Exchange Server?
Have you let Outlook open for a while (at least over night) so that it
can run indexing? That does create HDD activity without a visible
reason.
Outlook though is rather slow and the bigger your email storage file
(PST or OST), the slower it is. I'd recommend to defragment your hard
drive, that might help. Also, you should try to put the PST/OST on your
fastest HDD.
I don't think you'll approach the speed of earlier versions of Outlook
though, not with this beta version.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Beta software is always slower than production software. It contains
debugging code, extra error logging and hasn't been optimized yet. You get
what you pay for <g>

 

[CA]

I have Outlook 2007 Beta2 on a 1.8P4m with a gig of ram and it runs at 100%
CPU constantly, with very little disk activity. Outlook.exe is the process
that's comsuming CPU in task manager.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Run it in safe mode and see if you still have the problem (Start, run,
"outlook.exe /safe").

Patrick Schmid

 

[BLANK JUNK MAIL RECEIVED - CREATE RULE]

Outlook 2007 initial downloading of mail and moving to another custom folder
when first opening outlook is so SLOW AND NON-FUNCTIONAL that I pressume will
be fixed with final version; if not, there is no choice, but to revert to
2003 VERSION,,, outlook 2007 mail is very, very bad in performing and memory
use.

 

[Jamey Hines]

Patrick,

Running in safe mode seems to resolve the spiking CPU issue. Is there
anything I can do to determine what Safe mode prevented from running? Just
trying to get to root cause.