Comments on: Outlook 2007 is slow, RSS broken

By: Anoop

Anoop — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:47:12 +0000

Hi, I have read most of this thread. Essentially I am operating XP with Outlook 2003. My pop3 account works great, no hangs, crashes or moments of “hold on while I think about this”. However I have my AOL configured too which of course is IMAP. This forever gives long hangs, delays at times crashes. Simply put I get very frustrated at the time it takes to even view an email in the reading pane let alone switch to the next email.

Any help would be greatly appreciated – is this incurable?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:18:57 +0000

My Outlook 2007 spins up my external hard drive everytime i click on a message. It seems as though Outlook is trying to access my external Hard Drive, but i have NO .pst nor .ost files on my external HD, i only have Pictures, .jpg, .gif, etc. etc.

Why would Outlook need to access my external HD?

Outlook 2003 is a better product in every sense.

By: joel

joel — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:42:33 +0000

My problem with outlook 2007 is different from those stated above…works great in every way except when I attach a file to an email. I can go to the directory where my attachment is located, but when I choose a sub-folder from that directory, the computer hangs for at least a full minute. I have a fast laptop running XP PRO SP3

By: D Dempsey

D Dempsey — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:36:07 +0000

My Outlook 2007 started to duplicate incoming mails.

My ISP suggested removing my e-mail account from Outlook 2007, which I did.

Whilst I stopped receiving duplicates, I still received e-mails addressed to the account I had removed!!! And, with this account now “non-existent” in Outlook 2007 I didn’t even have the convenience of even being able to reply to my “ghost mail” in Outlook 2007 – so still had to transfer over to my ISP account.

So I entered my e-mail account back into Outlook 2007, and now I am back to receiving duplicate mails!

How can I remove the “ghost” account and leave just my own???

Thanks if you can help!

By: Tim Anderson

Tim Anderson — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:18:47 +0000

@Sireuniogeose

Can you be more specific? On Mac or Windows? What looks wrong?

Tim

By: Sireuniogeose

Sireuniogeose — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:16:33 +0000

Your web page does not correctly work in safari browser

By: Benjamin C.

Benjamin C. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:33 +0000

OMG -I have been dying from this issue. I looked for a solution for three weeks, and tried everything and then today I found it!

This only applies for outlook 2007 using a pop 3 to download mail. Go to Tools>Trust Center> Addins> Manage>Go, and deselect all the add ins in all three drop downs including Exchange Client Extensions” Once this is done restart outlook. I dont remember it being this fast, next, reenable one add in at a time,(only the ones you need).

BTW – logging into safe mode might not tell you this will work since safe mode enables the exchange client extensions.

I also found the following URLS helpful

Hope this helps

By: avk

avk — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:24:19 +0000

i got a huge performance improvement after using contig -v -s %userdir%/local settings/application data/Microsoft/outlook

My 2gb OST file was in 1500+ fragments before. Contig managed to assemble it to 5 fragments and now OL2007 is tolerable.

By: Michael Mangelsdorf

Michael Mangelsdorf — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:20:14 +0000

Sorely disappointed with OL 2007. I use IMAP and specifically bought the new version of Outlook to replace Outlook 2003, because I was looking for improved IMAP performance. Outlook 2007 on my XP system is dead slow to start, then gets to 81% of my (4 Gig) IMAP folders and… dies. Gad, Thunderbird is even more useless for IMAP – what am I gonna do? But, for sure, this is just one more nail in the coffin for MS on my machines; I’m running a business, no bloatware cemetery.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:24:25 +0000

Outlook has always been slow. It takes up massive amounts of computer memory. the only G*d Damn reason I keep this thing is because it syncs up to my phone…

I can easily change my mail software to Mozilla’s (the maker of FireFox) Thunderbird, but I can’t change how my phone syncs up with my contacts.