Reminders delay on startup

[Atlas]

Outlook 2003 + sp etc.

I'm trying to understand why at startup the reminders dialog pops up only
after about 20 seconds, whilst the computer and Outlook aren't busy.

As the pst has some 400 folders and a lot of appointments in the calendar,
also some addons (quickfile, attachments processor, lookout, AVG) I thouyght
it could depend on that fact, so I've uninstalled everything; still the
same.

In the end I went for a drastic test:
- created a new profile (empty pst)
- no addons installed
- created one appintment with reminder
- exit outlook and restarted
- no email accounts
- no send receive automatically

Program launches immediately, say 1 second, (512MB ram, all cached, +
Pentium M 1.6), but still those 20 seconds before the reminder dialg pos
out....

Is it by design or what?

 

[Atlas]

I'm trying to understand why at startup the reminders dialog pops up only

after about 20 seconds, whilst the computer and Outlook aren't busy.

As the pst has some 400 folders and a lot of appointments in the calendar,
also some addons (quickfile, attachments processor, lookout, AVG) I
thouyght it could depend on that fact, so I've uninstalled everything;
still the same.

In the end I went for a drastic test:
- created a new profile (empty pst)
- no addons installed
- created one appintment with reminder
- exit outlook and restarted
- no email accounts
- no send receive automatically

Program launches immediately, say 1 second, (512MB ram, all cached, +
Pentium M 1.6), but still those 20 seconds before the reminder dialg pos
out....

Is it by design or what?

Help anyone?

Thanks

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

The Reminders folder is a search folder that only searches in your Inbox,
Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders. So the number of folders you have in
your PST file is irrelevant. Outlook looks at the Reminders folder once a
minute on a timer event. Depending on when the timer is first started there
could be a delay of up to 1 minute before any reminders would fire.

What difference does it make if a reminder doesn't fire for 20 seconds after
startup? Is anything that urgent that 20 seconds makes any difference?

 

[Atlas]

Ken thanks for answering.

What difference does it make if a reminder doesn't fire for 20 seconds
after startup? Is anything that urgent that 20 seconds makes any
difference?

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That 20sec to 1 minute delay is bothering;

many times I need to quickly lookup for appointments/reminders while
Outlooks is closed. So I need to open Outlook, wait launch time, wait
plugins load and then wait another 20secs/1 minute!! That's too much
considering that apparently there isn't much about it...

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Well, you can't change it and if you go to the Calendar folder and set it to
look for active appointments it would probably take you more than 20
seconds. I just leave Outlook open all day.