Comments on: Why Outlook 2007 is slow: Microsoft’s official answer

By: Neeraj Vannadil

Neeraj Vannadil — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:39:20 +0000

I had the same problem, where it takes lot of time to open any emails, or any folders.

I have disabled all addins, rss feeds. This didnt changed anything.

Atlast I got some relief when I checked ” use Cached Exchanged Mode”, which was actually unchecked for me.

May be some of you can have a try on that.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:58:59 +0000

Installe Office 2007 SP2 today and OUltook is ways slow, no improvements when launching it or worse, checking for new messages.

Problem though is that I have 3rd party apps (not add-ins), for example, to sync Outlook on a USB key and now they don’t work anymore, all crashing when using mspst.dll
Cool!

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:10:21 +0000

MattR, what’s your experience with the new SP2? I have tried the February CU (same as SP2) for Outlook 2007, and I did not notice apparent performance improvements.

For anyone who seriously want to measure the improvement for SP2, please make sure you record some performance data before the upgrade so that you have some data to compare with after the upgrade.

By: MattR

MattR — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:47:50 +0000

Looks like Microsoft may finally have a fix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968009
This apparently will be included in Office 2007 SP2. I Just installed it and am waiting to see if it helps. Has anyone else tried this yet?

By: TerryP

TerryP — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:31:01 +0000

Bazza no 27 rules. I like everyone else was desperate for a solution. Bought a new notebook Compaq TX-1025 dual core AMD something and 4GB RAM, Vista 64. After loading Outlook 2007 – brought my system to a screeching halt. Looked at each process and researched it and still saw the disk activity way too high and could not figure it out. Willing to try anything and was going to a frsh install this weekend. I performed the “netsh” fix listed by Bazza and my troubles disappeared, eventhough I use a cable modem and Netgear router. Isn’t Netgear owned by Cisco?? Anyway, THANK YOU Bazza.

By: PhilM

PhilM — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:48:57 +0000

I’ve been experiencing dreadful performance from Outlook 2003 on Vista, but using the command as mentioned by Bazza:

netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

makes an incredible difference. My laptop only has 1GB RAM, so I’m runnign without all the pretty graphics (no big deal) but suddenly Outlook responsiveness is amazing.

By: FrankFlorida

FrankFlorida — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:36:58 +0000

I bought my self a $2000 custom PC with I7-processor, 6 Gig 3-channel RAM, Raid 0 with 10.000 rpm raptors, all the best stuff. Running Vista 64 ultima and installed Outlook 2007. I thougt from now an can work like flying. Great disapointment. Outlook can not even follow the speed I am typing. It’s often 3 words behind. I am on exchange server and my local folder file is 2.6 Gig – sync with my exchange server. I need that size because I am working with many clients in the travel bussines. If I try to send an email it freeze often for over 30 seconds before the email final sends out. During that time you can’t advance with anything in outlook. Sometime it freeze over a minute. I allready unchecked all add on’s except indexing. Haveing the newest hardware but working like it’s in the mid 90’s is a real disapoint. My work productivity is slowed down to the point there I have to use my lunch break to get the work done. It’s crazy. Why does it take microsoft so long to solve this known problem?

By: Chris Street

Chris Street — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:37 +0000

further to my 64) posting in July 2007. I’ve now got a Dell Inspiron 1525 with vista home premium and have created a new pst file by copying and pasting tasks and contacts from my old pst file. Soon after creating the new pst file the ‘reading pane’ no longer worked (again!), moreover the cursor was blinking very fast much of the time indicating processor activity whilst Outlook was open. So I uninstalled the (rather useless) Dell MediaDirect programme. Lo and behold my reading pane in outlook 2007 is now working fine and the blinking cursor has stopped. Maybe, I’m guessing, some component of my outlook data created the ‘reading pane’ problem?

By: Abby

Abby — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:25:48 +0000

I searched for Outlook 2007 slow on XP and found this blog. My issue with Outlook is not just that it runs slow, but it seems to cause my entire computer to run slowly. I only upgraded the Outlook office program from 2003 to 07 and left all the other 2003, but now Word is slow, PP is slow…it’s really frustrating.

By: john

john — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:58:58 +0000

I have an office of over 50 PC’s creaking to a halt becuase of outlook.
Every morning hours and hours are wasted while people wait for their PC’s to come back alive.
Some have even resorted to going and using Exchanges webmail client to use their emails.

We are probably going to have move to a different client so will be ditching exchange as well.

I never thought I would ever even contemplate lotus notes (just thinking about it makes me cringe) but something has to be done becuase it is probably costing the equivelant of one persons salary in wasted time.