Outlook 2007 RTM still slow

[tmiller9833]

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange 2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

Description of your setup and a detailed description of what happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed




It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations. Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2 install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

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[Ales Susnik]

Any update to this problem... anyone?

A.

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange 2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

On Nov 24, 11:28 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Description of your setup and a detailed description of what happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed




It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations. Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2 install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

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[Vijay]

You can try the Office 07 trial version and check if that works or not and
this is link to download trial http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/

Any update to this problem... anyone?

A.

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is
it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange
2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed
but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

On Nov 24, 11:28 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Description of your setup and a detailed description of what
happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
(B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

message


It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my
computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations.
Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it
useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2
install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to
perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing
an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view
or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the
freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a
file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes
things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made
it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

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[tmiller9833]

uhhh, that would help how?

-trevor

You can try the Office 07 trial version and check if that works or not and
this is link to download trial http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/

Any update to this problem... anyone?

A.

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is
it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange
2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed
but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

On Nov 24, 11:28 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Description of your setup and a detailed description of what
happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
(B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

message


It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my
computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations.
Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it
useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2
install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to
perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing
an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view
or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the
freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a
file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes
things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made
it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

Z- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

 

[Vijay]

there might have been updates since then.
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/

uhhh, that would help how?

-trevor

You can try the Office 07 trial version and check if that works or not and
this is link to download trial http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/

Any update to this problem... anyone?

A.

:

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is
it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange
2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed
but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

On Nov 24, 11:28 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Description of your setup and a detailed description of what
happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
(B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

message


It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my
computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations.
Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it
useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2
install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to
perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing
an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view
or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the
freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a
file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes
things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made
it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

Z- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

If he is running the final version, then the trial is exactly the same.
There have been no updates at all since RTM.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
RibbonCustomizer Add-In: http://pschmid.net/office2007/ribboncustomizer
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there might have been updates since then.
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/

uhhh, that would help how?

-trevor

You can try the Office 07 trial version and check if that works or not and
this is link to download trial http://us20.trymicrosoftoffice.com/
--
Vijay
Sites that I would recommend
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/


Any update to this problem... anyone?

A.

:

In safe mode:

Time to open application: ~40 seconds
HDD full out after open: ~2 minutes
Outlook.exe pulling 3-10% CPU and ~17meg RAM
Time to open item: ~2 seconds
Time to reply to item: ~5 seconds
Time to swtich folders: ~2 seconds

Performance overall better in safe mode but still worse than 2003.
Currently no 3rd party add-ins installed, clean Vista system with
Office full install. FYI: OST size 4.48gig.

-trevor

Patrick Schmid [MVP] wrote:
If you go into safe mode, do you still have the performance issue?
(Start, Run, "Outlook /safe")
If yes, can you describe the performance issue (while in safe mode) in
more detail. Meaning, where do you exactly experience it, how bad is
it,
etc?

Thanks,

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------
http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007 RTM Issues: http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR):
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007: http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog: http://pschmid.net/blog/feed


Clean / new Vista RTM, new Office 2007 RTM full install. Exchange
2003
SP2 - fully patched. No migrations of any kind. NAI AV installed
but
not integrated with Outlook. OST is almost 5 gig, performance is
significantly beneath Outlook 2003 on same mailbox. Using only the
Exchange account. System is a Pentium M 1.86 with 1.5GB ram. Disk
scores a 4.3, processor scores 3.8, RAM scores 4.3 in Vista
Performance.

Not deployable in this state to my users.

-trevor

On Nov 24, 11:28 am, "Patrick Schmid [MVP]"
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Description of your setup and a detailed description of what
happens
would be helpful!

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
--------------http://pschmid.net
***
Office 2007RTMIssues:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80
Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh
(B2TR):http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/09/18/43
***
Customize Office 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/customize
OneNote 2007:http://pschmid.net/office2007/onenote
***
Subscribe to my Office 2007 blog:http://pschmid.net/blog/feed

message


It's driving me crazy. Every spam that comes in freezes my
computer.
2003 didn't do this.

:

I've installedOutlook2007 with great expectations.
Unfortunately,
there are performance issues that are pretty much rendering it
useless
to me.

Just to note, I'm on a brand new Core 2 Duo T7400, XP sp2
install, so
it's not hardware or legacy XP junk slowing me down.

When I startOutlook, it takes ~30 seconds before I am able to
perform
any action.

When email is being received,Outlookfreezes. If I'm composing
an
email at the time, I can no longer type. If I'm trying to view
or
delete other email, no luck. I have 5 email accounts, so the
freezing
is around 12-15 seconds every 2 minutes. If I'm receiving a
file, the
freezing lasts longer.

Deleting more than a few items from my inbox often freezes
things too.

Not to mention it's using 100MB of memory.

I heard that the Beta had similar problems, looks like it made
it into
RTM. Does anyone know a fix (besides reinstalling oulook 2003).

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[Bill Ross]

Nothing on this thread since 12/06 and I'm snowed in here in Denver today.
Just searching to see if other folks are having OL 2007 performance issues.
I sure am. Takes forever to come up (30 seconds) and switching folders is
slow. OL 2003 was fine. PST size is 800MB on local drive. Send/Receive is
also slow. Anyone made any progress?

Thanks,

 

[Guest]

Bill,

It opens very quickly for me now (about 5 seconds, two POP mial accounts) if
I put the following in the shortcut:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE"
/noextensions/recycle

This loads Outlook without any Com add-in's and prevents multiple instances
of Outlook from opening.

Hope this helps you!

Nospam

 

[Bill Ross]

Thanks Nospam. That did help load Outlook faster.

Mery Christmas to you!

 

[KnightCrawler]

I'm going to uninstall Outlook 2007 and give up on it. I find it hard
to believe that Microsoft would allow such a flagship product to ship
in such bad shape just to make a deadline.

I plan to blog about it as well.

In my business I will warn users NOT to upgrade.

I love Word 2007 and Publisher 2007 but Outlook is a neccessity for
daily life so it needs to be in tip top shape.

What the hell is Microsoft thinking ??????

 

[Johnny]

KnightCrawler,
I totally agree, Microsoft dropped the ball. This problem existed early in
the beta process and was never addressed. Very odd. Either the Beta process
is flawed, or they just decided to overlook this problem. You'd think with
all the Vista/Office 2007 development delays, they would have had time to fix
this.

We've tried every possible solution and nothing seems to work. True, some of
the solutions may shave a 1-2 seconds off the load time, or reducing your PST
size will also make a barely noticeable indifference... but this is
unacceptable. The thought of some people trimming their 5GB PST files (which
worked perfectly with OL 2003) down to 50MB is laughable. Is this really a
solution???

I've downgraded back down to Outlook 2003 and kept the other Office 2007
apps installed. I've been a fan of the new Office UI, but going back to 2003
makes you feel how bloated and clunky the software has become. I wish the
software companies would stop this annoying trend.

Office 2007 will be released to the masses soon... i imagine the same
version we are using is already shrink wrapped and ready to ship to retail
locations and system builders. I hope Microsoft is ready for the tongue
lashing they are going to receive from all their customers when they realize
their $500+ office suite does not work (at least the outlook component).

By the way, for those of you wondering, this problem also exists when
running Outlook 2007 on Vista. The instant search is definately improved when
running it on Vista, where as this feature cripples your XP computer. But the
slow load times, Send/Receive delays, etc are identical to those we are all
experiencing with XP.

Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope for the fastest SP release in
Microsoft history ))

Johnny

 

[Johnny]

Hello KnightCrawler,

Snow again here in Denver!@#$^.

Anyway - I am also still VERY dissapointed in the speed of OL 2007. Still
loads painfully slow and moving between folders and emails drags. About half
the speed of OL2003I - or worse.

I will keep using it though.

Most of my clients seem to get upgraded by the IT folks without input from
them so I need to be on the latest. Appreciate what you are feeling and
would love to hear from MSFT on this issue.

Rgds,

 

[max]

any updates on this? Still unusable?

 

[Guest]

Max,

I have performed the following to get Outlook to operate very well, opens up
and begins to poll in about 3-5 seconds now, depending upon what type of
message is presently inside the inbox (text or HTML). The polling is very
quick and ususally only takes 3-5 seconds to poll all e-mail accounts. I
only have POP3 e-mail accounts (three of them), no Exchange e-mail accounts
(use the external web client for that via Firefox with IE Tab plug-in for
Firefox, very slick so I don't have to use IE at all, the plug in uses IE's
engine inside of Firefox!).

1. Changed the extension on the shortcut(s) to Outlook so they are:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE"
/noextensions/recycle

2. The only active add-ins I use are:
AttachmentOptions AttOpt.dll
Microsoft VBA for Outlook Addin OUTLVBA.DLL

All other add-ins are inactive. They of course can be activated any
time on an as-needed basis.

3. Set up the order of e-mail accounts so my primary account is on the top
of the list as default (Yahoo) and the others (ISP, Gmail) are below it.

4. Got rid of unneeded e-mails, scanned the .pst file (no trouble found).
File is about 51 MB now.

5. Configured McAfee Corporate 8.0.0 anti-virus software so it does not
scan e-mail inside of Outlook (it will scan the message during normal
scanning processes when it is downloaded to the computer).

6. Defragmented the harddrive using Diskeeper 11 and DiskTrix 1.36 Most
frequently and most recent date accessed files are now on the outside of the
disk platters (where the fastest seeking can be done)

7. NEW trick! I'm using an NVIDIA capable video card and have experimented
successfully with overclocking the video card a tad. Doing this cut a few
seconds off the opening time for Outlook.

Hope these tricks may help someone!

Nospam

 

[KnightCrawler]

None yet, I would think it will take a while to fix these problems
since they existed in the beta as well and were not fixed before RTM.

 

[KnightCrawler]

No updates yet...it's still unusable. Wait for the Service Pack they
should have the kinks worked out by then.

 

[Tim]

Hi there,

I have similar issues with Outlook starting up and the amount of time it
takes before I can read E-mails.

Clean install of XP Pro on 3.2 D Intel with 2 gig RAM Outlook 2003 was far,
far quicker than Outlook 2007 so is there a fix or should I go back to using
Outlook 2003?

Tim.

 

[Ian Haynes]

• Tools > Trust Center
• Click Add-ins
• At the bottom, change the dropdown menu to Exchange Client Extensions
and
click Go
• Disable any Extensions you see here.

I've had the same probelms with Outlook 2007 being slow and have posted here
and elsewhere.

Tried the above without any improvement.

 

[CJSnet]

Brett says he is surprised there aren't more complaints about OL2007 speed.
So I just wanted to add my voice to them. There are several other threads
about this issue, but remember it has not been officially released yet.
When it does expect a flood (if people can actually use their computers
while OL is paralysing them that is).

I have a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo Sony VAIO, and after upgrading to OL2007, even with
add-ins disabled, it can stop me typing for up to a minute while it receives
1 email. Great!
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Thanks,
CJSnet

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