Outlook 2003 seems to be a real memory hog. How do I speed it up?

[Trident Productions]

When downloading emails, my whole system slows to a crawl. Word won't respnd
to keystrokes, paste actions get the hourglass, etc. How do I maintain the
regular email downloads I need while not slowing all of my other office and
non-office programs down in the process. I use only one add-in -- Qurb
whitelist antispam.

 

[John Blessing]

When downloading emails, my whole system slows to a crawl. Word won't
respnd
to keystrokes, paste actions get the hourglass, etc. How do I maintain the
regular email downloads I need while not slowing all of my other office
and
non-office programs down in the process. I use only one add-in -- Qurb
whitelist antispam.

I wouldn't describe OL2003 as a particular memory hog.

Some basic investigation...

Have you checked task manager to see what process is hogging the processor?

Have you tried disabling Qurb?

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[Trident Productions]

Thx for prompt response. My biggest hog is IE. I'll respond in greater depth
regarding the problem which as you suggest may or may not be memory related.
It seems to happen when email is being downloaded. Qurb, from a memory
standpoint is very low on task manager's mem. usage list. I'm also using
Norton AV, which I've heard is system hog, but Task Mgr shows its memory
usage only at 9k. My system has 3G of memory, so I'd expect things to be
flying. But they are not. I'll respond in more depth over the next day or so,
as I gather pertinent data.