Outlook 2003 Inbox capacity and slow system

[VanS]

I’ve got a client demo tomorrow morning out of town and my problem is my
laptop system has gotten progressively slower and slower. I did a defrag
maybe 2-3 months ago and that didn’t seem to help. It just seems to more and
more just crawl-very long times to open and close apps.(Win XP Pro SP2, Intel
1.86 Ghz processor, 2 G memory and about 75G HD with 10% free space and
OUtlook 2003)

My virus –Norton 360 auto updates-but am thinking it well could be my
Outlook Inbox. First when I had to reinstall Win XP Pro 10-12 months ago I
believe it then created two Personal Folders in Outlook with each its own
Inbox, and other boxes. But also the main Inbox I use had over 30,000 emails
in it. I know the capacity of the boxes can be increased but I’m wondering
strongly if this could be the main drag on my system? So is this an
excessive amount of emails (i've not cleaned in long time) or could the 10%
capacity HD be the issue? Or the duplicate Personal Folders?

Any ideas? Thanks, God bless,
Van

 

[Brian Tillman]

I’ve got a client demo tomorrow morning out of town and my problem i
my
laptop system has gotten progressively slower and slower. I did
defrag
maybe 2-3 months ago and that didn’t seem to help. It just seems t
more and
more just crawl-very long times to open and close apps.(Win XP Pro SP2
Intel
1.86 Ghz processor, 2 G memory and about 75G HD with 10% free spac
and
OUtlook 2003)

So is this an
excessive amount of emails (i've not cleaned in long time) or could th
10%
capacity HD be the issue? Or the duplicate Personal Folders?

Without looking at your PC, I'd suspect the 10% free more than I'
suspect Outlook