Outlook slows down as I use it

[TRVS_2000]

Upgraded to 2007 three weeks ago and performance problems from the beginning.
Running on Dell Inspiron 1501, Vista Business. When Outlook is first opened
it runs normally. As I use different modules it slows and then greys out
saying it is not responding. This happens quickly when the Calendar is
rolled forward or backward. And it seems to occur, although at a much slower
pace, if Outlook is open on the computer and sitting idle. It also occurs
quickly if there are many emails in the inbox waiting to be handled. I've
tried everything I could find on here to no avail. My .pst file is not all
that large. Got rid of McAfee. Created a new profile. Disabled all add-ins
allowable. Help please. Are there experts that will work one-on-one to
correct these things?

 

[Bob I]

Sounds like inadequate system memory

 

[TRVS_2000]

2 gigs RAM - should be enough don't you think? other programs seem to run
normally while Outlook will not respond.

 

[Bob I]

In my opinion 2 GB memory is the bare minimum to use Vista, on top of
that how much of that memory is assigned to video? One way to tell is to
observe harddrive activity. If you start seeing a lot of disk activity
at the same time the slow downs occur then you are shifting to the
swapfile because you don't have sufficient memory to handle everything.

 

[TRVS_2000]

Turned out to be an addin that I thought was disabled or was not allowed to
disable previously. It was a bluetooth addin. Out of the blue when I was
restarting Outlook when it stalled a pop-up appeared saying the program
seemed to be slowing due to the bluetooth addin and asked if I wanted to
disable. It has been running like a top ever since. Hell, now I'm afraid to
start putting some of the stuff back in that I had disabled and removed
earlier trying to solve the problem.

I'm fairly certain that I was not allowed to disable the addin earlier
because I removed or disabled every addin I was allowed to early on based on
other posts on this board.

Anyway, thanks.

 

[Bob I]

Thank you for posting back with your discovery!

Turned out to be an addin that I thought was disabled or was not allowed to
disable previously. It was a bluetooth addin. Out of the blue when I was
restarting Outlook when it stalled a pop-up appeared saying the program
seemed to be slowing due to the bluetooth addin and asked if I wanted to
disable. It has been running like a top ever since. Hell, now I'm afraid to
start putting some of the stuff back in that I had disabled and removed
earlier trying to solve the problem.

I'm fairly certain that I was not allowed to disable the addin earlier
because I removed or disabled every addin I was allowed to early on based on
other posts on this board.

Anyway, thanks.

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