My outlook seems to be dieing a slow painful death.
It takes forever to load, and some times to get form message to message these days.
I have a huge archive (~885MB), any chance this is whats causing the issue? Or is my brand new computer just being teh suck for some reason.:eyebrow:
are you running pgp and/or what antivirus?
disable to see if that helps
pgp?
And the shitstorm that is Symantec. I wish I could disable that resource hog.
nah, no pgp. and i can’t disable this fucking AV. It just keeps fixing itself…
archive doesn’t matter, its your actual mailbox size… if you are running in cached mode (probably are if you are using a laptop) and the mailbox is over 2GB it will be dead slow, and in some cases non functional
get rid of symantec, even if it doesnt speed things up, Such a shitty ass program
Assuming you did the usual, defrag HD, compacted your store within Outlook, then get rid of Symantec. That was the second biggest hog on mine. The first was running BCM on top of Outlook.
Hrm. Got Symantec to shut up finally, and appear to have restored Outlook speed… coincidence?
symantec corporate and outlook don’t play nice. Mine likes to prevent me from fully closing outlook from something with the exit scan. Not uncommon to check taskmgr when my shit starts grinding to a halt and have 6 or 7 outlook.exe’s running in the background.
After struggling to remove Symantec from my system, I made sure it was still running fine for awhile. The using regedit I went in and removed any other instances of ‘symantec’ from the registry and it helped a little more. Even after you uninstall it there are still some resources left behind that load on boot. I think one was the automatic update dll’s. I guess they figure it should still check to see if anything needs ot be updated.
I really hate that it comes pre-installed on just about everything.
Quoted for truth. I run Symantec here in my environment with Outlook as our email client hooked into our Exchange server. None of the slowness is from Symantec. Your slowness is probably coming from an excessively large Inbox. There are four critical paths in each mailbox. They are: Calendar, Contacts, Inbox and Sent Items. If a user moves messages into a folder that is not in one of these critical paths, the performance should increase at a decent rate.
If you’re not on an Exchange server, none of this applies. 