Outlook 2003 VERY SLOW - certain operations

[YJ]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on a Dell XPS Gen 3, 3.4 GhZ, 2GB RAM, XP SP2 - fully
updated, Office 2003 fully updated - running on a stand-alone PC. In most
applications, the PC runs fast.

Outlook is running very slowly when trying to create a new email (clicking
on New
at top left it takes 5-7 seconds to open, Reply or Forward takes 6-9
seconds). But, moving from/to Mail, Calender, Contacts takes no time, and
moving within mail directories takes very little time. (I am exculding the
first email operation after the PC boots, when Word has to be turned on by
Outlook which, I assume, would normally take longer than subsequent
operations.)

I reduced the size of the pst file to 80MB by removing old email, changed
the polling time from 1 min to 10 min, compressed the file a few times,
closed program and rebooted, but the problem remains the same. This used to
be much faster some time ago -- is this a result of a somewhat recent
software/OS update?

Any suggestions?

THANKS!
YJ

 

[John Blessing]

I'm running Outlook 2003 on a Dell XPS Gen 3, 3.4 GhZ, 2GB RAM, XP SP2 -
fully
updated, Office 2003 fully updated - running on a stand-alone PC. In most
applications, the PC runs fast.

Outlook is running very slowly when trying to create a new email (clicking
on New
at top left it takes 5-7 seconds to open, Reply or Forward takes 6-9
seconds). But, moving from/to Mail, Calender, Contacts takes no time, and
moving within mail directories takes very little time. (I am exculding
the
first email operation after the PC boots, when Word has to be turned on by
Outlook which, I assume, would normally take longer than subsequent
operations.)

I reduced the size of the pst file to 80MB by removing old email, changed
the polling time from 1 min to 10 min, compressed the file a few times,
closed program and rebooted, but the problem remains the same. This used
to
be much faster some time ago -- is this a result of a somewhat recent
software/OS update?

Any suggestions?

THANKS!
YJ

I found that switching off Smart Tags (tools, options, other) speeded OL03
up.
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[YJ]

Thanks John!

Switched off Smart Tags in Outlook 2003, closed, rebooted - same slow
operation.

Would appreciate all suggestions!

Thanks!
YJ