Winword.exe only when authoring?

[Milhouse Van Houten]

Maybe it's only me, but if I want to use Word as my email editor, and I find
myself reading mail 99% of the time and only writing them 1% of the time,
why is there no option (even in the form of an obscure Registry setting) to
have Outlook 2003 only have winword.exe in memory when you're actually
authoring -- that is, when it's actually needed?

Or is there such a setting I've missed?

I realize there would be a tiny performance penalty waiting for Word to load
when starting a message, and those who write frequently wouldn't want this,
but that's why it would be an option.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

When winword.exe isn't actively used it won't be in active memory when
active memory is requested by other processes. So unless you are very low on
RAM and use a slow harddrive you won't really notice it. There is no
registry setting but the next version of Outlook will only have one editor
(based on Word that is).

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Maybe it's only me, but if I want to use Word as my email editor, and I find
myself reading mail 99% of the time and only writing them 1% of the time,
why is there no option (even in the form of an obscure Registry setting) to
have Outlook 2003 only have winword.exe in memory when you're actually
authoring -- that is, when it's actually needed?

Or is there such a setting I've missed?

I realize there would be a tiny performance penalty waiting for Word to load
when starting a message, and those who write frequently wouldn't want this,
but that's why it would be an option.

 

[CMM]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The way Windows memory management works,
having Word "loaded" doesn't have anywhere near the impact many people
think.... nor is the Mem usage indicator in Task Manager really an indicator
of the memory actually being used. In fact, MS should get rid of it... it's
the source of A LOT of misconceptions.