Is Your Outlook 2003 Slow?

Author: Jason

31 Mar

I came across a great tip regarding Outlook related to speed. I have found my Outlook 2003 gets slower and slower over time - to the point where it’s basically unusable. Slipstick has some pointers on what could be causing the problem.

And no, it can’t possibly be all of the plugins and utilities I’m using.

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Chris Maddocks 3 years ago 1 point
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Good comment... I've been wanting to get rid of the Messenger tie-in for ages.

I still say it's your plugin collection, though!

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cole garrett 1 year ago 1 point
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i was experiencing horrible response with outlook 2003 on a new computer with 2G RAM, etc, etc. - i did everything - eliminated the IM tie in, archived, compacted - nothing helped - then finally a dell rep said go to add/remove programs and remove the "outlook addin installer" program - BAM - outlook now flies like the wind.

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Alonso 1 year ago 1 point
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I've just bought this computer, it has been working quite well, originally it came with Windows Vista and the Office 2007 Trial. I unistalled the Trial and installed my own version of Office 2003 and the computer worked well.

However, lately I've been experiencing a problem with Outlook 2003. It's working really slow, when I send a message the program gets stuck for a couple of minutes and appears non-responsive. Also, when it sends and receives automaticly the whole program gets non-responsive to the point that I have to stop the application using the Task Manager. A similar problem also started happening suddenly with OneNote...

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Charles 1 year ago 1 point
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in outlook 2003 a client of mine notices that when he selects the drop down box to select a fold that contains pics to use for attachment in an email it takes forever for it to drop down. how do you speed that up

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john eastman 1 year ago 1 point
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5-21-07 My outlook has been slow for about two weeks. I dowloaded a windows update during that time...maybe that is the problem

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John 1 year ago 1 point
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Yeah, something happened in the latest windows update. Ive never had a problem with a slow outlook but now its crazy slow!!!

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Matt 1 year ago 1 point
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I agree it has slowed down noticeably in the last couple of weeks. If you look on process monitor its opening and closing 2 million registry keys that contain blacklisted domains (in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\ZoneMap\Domains). If you delete these the slowdown stops, but you might not be as protected against spam\phishing\whatever. In any case it would probably be smart to make a backup of that key before deleting all 2 million entries in it.

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Ryan 11 months ago 1 point
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For me it was the "Live!" add-on (for mapping locations) which lagged opening a dialog for between 10-30s, uninstalled using add/remove programs.

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Koby 8 months ago 1 point
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I believe it is all because of internal fragmentation within the PST.
We are measuring fragmentatin of disks for some time now, and started doing it with Outlook.
Please have a look, because we collect maps of the data distribution in order to calculate the fragmentation level, and you may help.
http://www.disklace.com/a14outlook.htm
tnx
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Koby.

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MindSpace 7 months ago 1 point
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Alonso, I am having the same problem as you. I have just noticed that Add/Remove programs lists 5 separate entries relating to Office 2007 Trial! - not just the one "Microsoft Office 2007...". So I am going to try uninstalling these other four:
- Activation Assistant for Microsoft Office 2007...
- Business Contact Manager...
- Microsoft Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies.
- Microsoft Office Small Business Connectivity Component

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MindSpace 6 months ago 1 point
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Ok, I have confirmed that uninstalling these other 4 things fixes my problems. Emails will now send, and the weird error message on loadup is gone.

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MichaelH 5 months ago 1 point
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I had Outlook (Office) 2007 pre-installed on my Vaio laptop (trial copy) and I uninstalled it and installed Office 2003. I also was having very long send/receive times, and Outlook would also hang retrieving IMAP headers, expand lists of folders in an account, etc. I uninstalled the "2007 Microsoft Office 2007 Primary Interop Assemblies" and the long delay problems went away. It's working much faster now.

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Wasila 2 months ago 1 point
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I disabled the link to Instant Msngs and it's working much faster now.

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Wasila 2 months ago 1 point
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I disabled the link to Instant Msngr and it's working much faster now.

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Kris Johnson 2 months ago 1 point
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I know on my work laptop, Outlook can definitely be slow. I use the archive method a lot, but I'm not seeing much.

I find some other helpful articles here, regarding Outlook...

http://www.pcauthorities.com

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Kevan 1 month ago 1 point
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I seem to be experiencing EXACTLY the same symptoms as Alonso (May 9th, 2007). This nis incredibly frustrating as I am only experienciong the problem on my brand new (and faster) computer. Any pointers to a resolution to this?

Kevan

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