Comments on: Slow Outlook 2007: the comments keep coming

By: Matt B

Matt B — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:56:27 +0000

Thank You Clive!

Removed Media Direct and it works great now! This was killing me…

By: Ben M

Ben M — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:36:31 +0000

Clive …

Thank You !!!! Had the same problem and have been trying for two weeks to get Outlook to repond to key strokes. Deleted Dell Media Direct (what did it do, anyway?) on an XPS M1210 and the problem is gone ! How did you ever figure that out? Thanks!

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:10:12 +0000

I installed Office 2007 a few weeks ago and run it on a high spec Dell Inspiron using XP, everything is fine except Outlook. The problem I’ve had is that there is a delayed action to key strokes and text appears spasmodically in batches sometimes several seconds after hitting the keyboard. It’s been driving me crazy and I’ve taken to writing emails in Word and pasting the text into Outlook. My problem was solved yesterday after I deleted Dell Media Direct from my machine. This software came pre-installed and I’ve never used it, it’s that easy!

By: Niklas

Niklas — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:33:28 +0000

I emptied my Inbox and went from 4500 email to 200+. The letters I type now show up momentarily and OUTLOOK.EXE does not take up 50% CPU. I have a colleague with 17000 email in the Inbox and it works fine for her so no logic…

By: harry

harry — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:16:36 +0000

Since about May 2007 Outlook 2003 really got slow, hogging 100% memeory, etc. I rolled back various windows updates (KBs) to no avail. I searched the net and found a suggestion that IE 7 may be the fault. I uninstalled IE 7, going back to IE 6, and the problem was completely solved. So it seems slow Outlook has something to do with IE 7, and since the latter is part of Vista, etc., perhaps this is the whole problem also with Outlook 2007.

By: Mark Flett

Mark Flett — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:28:54 +0000

I’m thoroughly hacked off with Outlook 2007. Composing an email is a nightmare as the program does not seem to respond to keystrokes fast enough. I have the required 2GB of Ram on the machine as well. At 350 GBP Office is a rip off as far as I can tell. It’s back to XP and office 2003 for me

By: John A Thomson

John A Thomson — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:57:34 +0000

The fixes listed in my blog posting fixed my performance issues:
http://www.roundtripsolutions.com/blog/2007/02/19/208/problem-with-outlook-2007-email-receive-is-broken/

By: John

John — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:15:57 +0000

Interesting thread on this. http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/browse_thread/thread/daa75dcd78794f07/9e88c3238b1a0997?lnk=st&q=outlook+2007+memory&rnum=1#9e88c3238b1a0997

Minimizing Outlook does release almost all the memory.

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:26:09 +0000

I’m running MS Office 2007 on a brand new DEll Inspiron (2.0 MHz CPU,2.0Gb RAM, Vista Home Premium)
Outlook is so slow as to be virtually unusable and continually stops responding.
I have AutoArchived everything over a week old, to little effect. Short of uninstalling + returning to Office 2003 – with problems synching with my PDA, is there any workaround ?
Microsoft must be mad, after all the Beta testing (and all the hype)to release such nonsense on the market.

By: Luis Gustavo Mendoza

Luis Gustavo Mendoza — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:14:02 +0000

I went back to outlook 2003 and is giving me a headeache. is so slow that I can write faster with my hands.