Comments on: Is Your Outlook 2003 Slow?

By: Kevan

Kevan — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:25:37 +0000

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

By: Kris Johnson

Kris Johnson — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:00:25 +0000

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

By: Wasila

Wasila — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:32 +0000

I disabled the link to Instant Msngr and it’s working much faster now.

By: Wasila

Wasila — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:07 +0000

I disabled the link to Instant Msngs and it’s working much faster now.

By: MichaelH

MichaelH — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:59:09 +0000

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.

By: MindSpace

MindSpace — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:09:42 +0000

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.

By: MindSpace

MindSpace — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:32:12 +0000

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

By: Koby

Koby — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 05:55:40 +0000

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
‘
Koby.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:54:51 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:26:07 +0000

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.

By: John

John — Tue, 22 May 2007 12:37:02 +0000

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

By: john eastman

john eastman — Mon, 21 May 2007 21:18:10 +0000

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

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 20 May 2007 03:19:59 +0000

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

By: Alonso

Alonso — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:04:23 +0000

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…

By: cole garrett

cole garrett — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:10:11 +0000

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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By: Chris Maddocks

Chris Maddocks — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:40:19 +0000

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!